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ROXBURGH PARK, VIC. — A sixth Melbourne man has been charged by the AFP’s National Security Investigations (NSI) team as part of an ongoing investigation into a group of Australian men accessing and distributing ISIS propaganda online. 

MIAMI, FLORIDA, USA. — A federal judge on Thursday (Friday Australian time) ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11 (December 12 Australian time).

WASHINGTON DC, USA. — Over the past couple of weeks, a cybersecurity researcher watched as a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including farm equipment maker Deere, home appliance ​company SharkNinja and engine manufacturer Cummins, yet the hacker did almost none of the work.

MURRINDINDI SHIRE COUNCIL, VIC. — The council's new Customer Booking Portal is now live, providing a faster and simpler way to search, book and manage council venues and community buses online.

BEVERIDGE, VIC. — Mitchell Shire Council has welcomed a Victorian Greens commitment of $15 million to plan and design a train station at Beveridge, the first commitment from any party to the project ahead of the November 28 state election.

SPRING ST, MELBOURNE. — Victorian motorists could be better off after this state election, with Labor pledging to cap tolls at $30 a week next year to match similar plans announced by the Liberal Party.

WANGARATTA, VIC. — Brendan Nugent remains in police custody at Wangaratta Police Station and will appear in person today at the Wangaratta Magistrates' Court.

MELBOURNE, VIC. — A 40-year-old male Senior Constable from Victoria Police's North West Metro region has been charged following an internal investigation with stalking, installing a tracking device to locate a person, attempting to pervert the course of justice and two counts of unauthorised access to police information.

VICTORIA. — A 28-year-old Victoria Police constable from the Western Region has been charged with one count each of transmitting material using a carriage service - the material being child abuse material – and using a carriage service in a way that a reasonable person would regard as being, in all the circumstances, offensive, following a Professional Standards internal investigation.

ASPENDALE, VIC. — Kingston Council has welcomed the announcement by Rossdale Golf Club that it has terminated its agreement with the developer who proposed redeveloping the site.

YEA, VIC. — Saturday saw 24 men take to the course for the Club Championships at Royal Yea, down from last year’s field of 32. Those who turned up were rewarded with superb weather and a course in excellent condition.

CLAYTON, VIC. — Three one-act plays, one theme: the evolution of courtship, communication, and dating rituals. It is an anthropological journey through how we express love, comparing traditional, quiet devotion with modern, rapid-fire chaos.

MELBOURNE, VIC. — The victim, Kate, was conned into transferring $118,000 from a family business to fraudsters and has recovered the money after reporting the scam to police.

MIAMI, FLORIDA, USA. — A federal judge on Thursday (Friday Australian time) ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11 (December 12 Australian time).

MELBOURNE, VIC. — Imagine a company that sells you equipment, invests money in your business, and then rents back what you build with it. It’s your supplier, your investor and your customer all at once.

CANBERRA, ACT. — The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board, in a unanimous decision, lifted the cash rate to 4.6 per cent, raising interest rates by 25 basis points to the highest level since 2011, as it wrapped up its two-day meeting this afternoon.

The attack on Helen Haines is so shocking. The reaction to it by too many politicians, activists and journalists just makes it worse. Talk about opportunists. 

CANBERRA, ACT. — We look back at the now all-too-familiar modus operandi of Pauline Hanson on ABC Media Watch from 1998 to 2026. What Hanson presents to the media today, such as at a Saturday, October 3, 2026, Victorian election campaign launch at Crown in Melbourne, is similar to what Hanson was stating from 1998 onwards.