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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.

WHITTLESEA CITY COUNCIL, VIC. — National Recycling Week is back from November 9 – 15, 2026, and the City of Whittlesea is encouraging residents to get involved and discover new ways to reduce, reuse, repurpose and recycle.

WALLAN, VIC. — Major works on the Watson Street Interchange Upgrade in Wallan are now expected to finish by mid-2027, six months earlier than planned.

WANGARATTA, VIC. — The shocking attack on independent MP Helen Haines is a turning point. To honour her work, let it mark a positive shift in the way politics is done in Australia.

WANGARATTA, VIC. — The shocking attack on independent MP Helen Haines is a turning point. To honour her work, let it mark a positive shift in the way politics is done in Australia.

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.

DINGLEY VILLAGE, VIC. — A special emergency services game will be held as the curtain-raiser to the Hawthorn vs Essendon AFLW match at the Kennedy Centre from 12.30pm today, with Fire Rescue Victoria and the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) taking on a Victoria Police/Ambulance Victoria team.

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.

MELBOURNE, VIC. — Few Australian politicians have commanded a room quite like Paul Keating, and few performers are better equipped to capture his formidable presence than Jonathan Biggins.

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.