Up to 75,000 fans will be able to pack the MCG for Thursday night’s AFL clash between Carlton and Collingwood after health officials lifted crowd limits ahead of round two. Crowds in Victoria were limited to 50% capacity for round one but on Tuesday, acting premier James Merlino said from […]
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The photographer Anne Geddes has had a long and prolific career, but she is perhaps best known for “Down in the Garden,” a 1996 coffee-table book featuring tiny babies adorably (or tweely, depending on your perspective) tucked into unlikely horticultural scenarios, as if they’re hiding by chance in someone’s flower […]
What time is it? Time for a status check on Zac Efron and Vanessa Valladares. And it looks like the couple is still going strong. The two were spotted together in Melbourne on March 22. As fans are well aware, the 33-year-old actor has been working on season two of Down […]
WINDSOR, Australia — Kelly Miller stood in her doorway on Monday, watching the water rise to within a few inches of the century-old home where she runs an alternative medicine business. The bridge nearby had already gone under in some of Australia’s worst flooding in decades, along with an abandoned […]
(Adds details of port, background) MELBOURNE, March 22 (Reuters) – Australia’s Hunter Valley coal rail lines have been shut due to flooding in the state of New South Wales, the Australian Rail Track Corp said on Monday, halting deliveries into the port of Newcastle, the world’s biggest coal export port. […]
SYDNEY — When Brittany Higgins stood up in front of Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra on Monday, she told the gathered crowd: “I speak to you out of necessity.” “We are all here today not because we want to be here, but because we have to be here,” the former […]
Richmond celebrated the unfurling of two premiership flags with a gritty 25-point victory over Carlton in an enthralling AFL season-opener at the MCG. Recent clashes between the arch-rivals have been one-sided, with Richmond not losing to the Blues since 2013, but Carlton made the reigning premiers work to the end […]
7.54am GMT07:54 One thing missing from tonight’s season-opener is the voice of Bruce McAvaney. One of the most respected commentators in Australian history has called it time, following longtime calling partner Dennis Cometti in retirement. Footy viewers are much poorer for both absences. There could be a lot of matches […]