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Melbourne’s worst-performing VCE school closed over child safety concerns

Families of international secondary students have had to scramble to find new schools after a CBD college’s registration was cancelled.

  • Nicole Precel and Noel Towell

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Bar Local Drop is an extension of wine delivery business the Local Drop.
14.5/20

This all-day wine bar and its handwritten little black book has our reviewer hooked

Lunch, dinner or snacks and drinks at Bar Local Drop can stretch happily from “a quick one” to “one more” to “we might as well”...

  • Dani Valent
Buvons is a bar with "Vietnamese roots, French spirit".

Buvons

Elegant French-Vietnamese cocktail bar.

  • Tomas Telegramma
A tiny forest nine months after planting at Cedar Brush Creek on the Central Coast.

How forests the size of tennis courts transform Australian cities

You’ve heard of tiny homes, but what about tiny forests? It’s a growing movement in Australia, based on Japanese ideas.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Protesters in the Melbourne CBD on Tuesday during the school strike.

Parents warned of more disruption after thousands of striking teachers sweep through CBD

While classrooms across the state sat empty on Tuesday, 35,000 educators took to the streets of Melbourne. But more pain could yet be to come.

  • Noel Towell, Jackson Graham, Caroline Schelle and Chip Le Grand
Cafe Effe makes cakes and tarts, its own, gelato, and coffee using Proud Mary beans.

Cafe Effe

Where gelato and coffee collide.

  • Frank Sweet
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Bombers coach Brad Scott.

‘Their best senior player doesn’t want to be there’: Dons great sums up their woes

Monday night’s TV rounds made brutal viewing for Bombers fans as Kane Cornes, Caroline Wilson, Matthew Lloyd and co picked apart their dismal record, the coach’s damning comments and searched for answers to the club’s woes.

  • Michael Gleeson
Morning Market’s hot cross buns are studded with citrus and spice-soaked fruit.

‘So fluffy you’ll forget to chew’: 15 of Melbourne’s very best hot cross buns

Whether you’re anti-peel, pro-spice or a fan of a wildcard hot cross bun, the Good Food team’s personal hit list has something for even the biggest bun sceptic.

  • Good Food team
Bar Carnation has taken over the former Gerald's Bar space.
14/20

Opened in the shadow of its predecessor Gerald’s, Bar Carnation is startlingly bright

Gerald’s Bar’s successor continues the successful formula of good drinks plus good people plus good food equals the best times.

  • Besha Rodell
Uber has introduced a new pricing regime which will see rides that begin in affluent parts of Sydney and Melbourne charged disproportionately more than riders across other parts of the cities.

The Sydney suburbs that will cop the biggest Uber price rises

The company has issued a major overhaul of its pricing model, slugging different fares on different parts of the city, upping the rates for short trips and expanding peak times.

  • Elias Visontay