Shelby Garlick is a digital producer at The Age.
The first night of the 2025 AFL draft is done and dusted, and as expected, Willem Duursma was taken at pick No.1 by the West Coast Eagles. But one of the storylines of the night belongs to Melbourne.
From Bailey Smith’s servo sunnies to a gown reminiscent of Bec Judd’s 2004 show-stopper, there was plenty to make the 2025 Brownlow red carpet memorable.
Police said the women, both 30, were struck by a car at ‘relatively high speed’ after they hit a kangaroo on a freeway and stopped to help it.
Police arrived at the scene of a crash in Melbourne’s north where they discovered a 23-year-old man with gunshot wounds and a critically wounded woman.
A schoolgirl is dead and multiple students are injured after a horror school bus crash outside Geelong on Wednesday morning.
A man has been fatally stabbed less than a kilometre from where a young man was killed in a targeted attack last month.
A man has been charged with murder following the grim discovery of a woman’s body in north-west Victoria.
Police have charged a 35-year-old man who appeared in court on Thursday.
An elderly Forest Hill woman has died in a house fire on Wednesday night, believed to have been started from clothing being dried in front of a heater that ignited.
The Lions celebrated their premiership win in both Fitzroy and back home in Brisbane in a triumphant post grand final Sunday.