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Real estate agency slammed for asking tenants to donate energy rebate

Some renters called the move a ‘slap in the face’.

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Woodards Real Estate.

Melbourne woman’s driveway graffitied with ‘disgusting’ insults

“I couldn’t really believe what I was seeing”

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A Melbourne woman’s home was vandalised with slurs over her public support of Palestine.

Sad detail in photo exposes reality of Australia’s cost-of-living crisis

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Charity, Reaching Out In the Inner West of Melbourne, said more than 500 people arrive weekly for food support in Footscray.

Landmark apology after Aboriginal woman’s death in custody

2 min read

A coroner found Ms Dhu's death could have been prevented if her illness had been diagnosed earlier.

Sydney council’s massive backflip after fury over controversial decision

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Hundreds of protesters gathered to oppose banning a book on gay parenting. (Paul Braven/AAP PHOTOS)

Desperate acts Australians are taking to cope with cost of living

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Forty-five per cent of people had to choose between paying rent or buying food, according to the Salvation Army.