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This is Patrick Boyle who lives in Mallacoota who spends every spare moment he has saving the local koala population. "We havn't lost one koala that I have rescued yet"
#BREAKING
: Reported sightings of a large bearded man in a flying sleigh have been confirmed by the Royal Australian Air Force as Santa Claus.
Authorities are urging all children to go to bed to ensure an orderly delivery of presents.
More to come.
“I joined the Australian Parliament 50 years ago this year," Paul Keating tells Jon Faine.
“In those 50 years I’ve never seen any public figure as mean or mean spirited as
@PeterDutton_MP
."
#ausvotes19
In case you missed our 7pm bulletin, here is
@HendoABC
's final sign off. We're really going to miss him, but what a remarkable legacy he leaves. Go well, Hendo.
Cleo Smith has been found alive and well.❤️
WA Police have released this photo of Cleo in hospital this morning smiling and waving after she was reunited with her family.
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.
@Raf_Epstein
: "Matt Canavan thinks that you're only learning how to join the dole queue, how do you react to that?"
Anika Reynolds, 15 year old student: "I think that reaction is quite childish"
#auspol
#climatestrike
#BREAKING
There are zero active cases of coronavirus in Victoria.
The Health Department has confirmed the state’s last coronavirus patient was cleared of the virus and discharged from hospital yesterday.
"I don't know that I'll be drinking a beer tonight - I might be going higher up the shelf" says
@DanielAndrewsMP
.
"This has been a very difficult year, and Victorians have given a lot, and I'm proud of every single one of them."
#BREAKING
: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced the state will proceed over the next 48 hours to implement a shutdown of all non-essential activity across the state to combat the spread of coronavirus.
The "King of Bollywood"
@iamsrk
chatting to
@Raf_Epstein
“I just have this great yearning to not be myself. It’s a strange thing to say because you’re a movie star… I wake up and I don’t want to be me and I want to be Batman today.”
He's in town for
@IFFMelb
.
Liberal
@GladysLiuMP
has pulled out of our Chisholm candidates forum with
@Raf_Epstein
this afternoon.
The forum will go ahead with the ALP’s Carina Garland.
Come along and see us at The Glen in Glen Waverley.
Economist Saul Eslake on
@albericie
's tax-cut analysis:
"I didn't detect any factual errors and the quotes she attributed to me were accurate and in context."
Sweeping new restrictions, including a night-time curfew, will be imposed across Melbourne under stage four restrictions from tonight. Regional Victoria will move to stage 3 restrictions.
Here's a breakdown of the changes👇
#Covid19Vic
#COVID19
@iamsrk
: "Even if I don't follow you, I read everything on Twitter. Sometimes I don't reply to it... but I assume being an actor that even if you don't read me, you feel me. Let me tell everyone I feel you too"
Congratulations, Victoria! Over half of our population has now had two doses of a vaccine. 🎉
Victoria has administered 94,259 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in 24 hours.
Mark Knight's controversial cartoon of tennis star Serena Williams did not breach media standards, the Australian Press Council has ruled. (Image: Herald Sun)
#BREAKING
: Victoria has recorded zero new coronavirus cases and no further deaths for a sixteenth day.
There are three active cases and no cases with an unknown source.
#BREAKING
Victoria has recorded no coronavirus cases and zero deaths in the past 24 hours.
It's the seventh day in a row of no new infections or deaths.
A deadly tiger snake has caused disruption in central Melbourne, forcing police to block off part of a busy city street until it could be bagged by a reptile catcher.
Strictly Ballroom star Paul Mercurio is set to win the Mornington Peninsula seat of Hastings for Labor.
The seat was the most marginal in the state going into the 2022 vote.
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Congratulations, Victoria! We've hit our 70 per cent first dose vaccination target about a week ahead of schedule.
70.3 per cent of Victorians (over the age of 16) have had their first dose of a vaccine.
"I'm the first woman ever to be appointed to this program, and I am so proud of that," says
@LaTrioli
. "Particularly for what it means to every little girl riding in the back of the car to school this morning... your voice belongs everywhere."
Make her welcome!
#BREAKING
: Victoria has recorded zero new cases of coronavirus and no further deaths overnight.
It's the tenth day in a row of no new COVID-19 infections or deaths.
#BREAKING
Victoria has recorded zero new cases of coronavirus for the 36th day in a row.
There were no deaths and remain zero active cases in the state.
Victoria has administered 98,589 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in 24 hours.
85.2 per cent of Victorians (over the age of 16) have had their first dose of a vaccine.
57.7 per cent of Victorians (over the age of 16) have had their second dose of a vaccine.
For everyone waiting for
@HendoABC
's last sign off. Sadly the Melbourne studio wasn't playing ball tonight. Our apologies. Tune in tomorrow for his good-bye message. Hendo says: "You gotta laugh".
📷: ABC News Margaret Burin
Dolphins have been spotted in the Yarra River this morning 🐬🐬!
The pair were seen near the Church Street Bridge. Did anyone else catch a glimpse of them?
Thanks
@braymoney
(Instagram) for sending us this video.
The couple, who run a carbon-neutral farm north of Hamilton, have given away more than $50 million to environmental causes after inheriting it through Ms Kantor's uncle, media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
BREAKING: The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation has bought two William Barak artworks at auction in New York, after a last-minute contribution from the Victorian government.
Elder Ron Jones is speaking live to
@latrioli
:
Victoria has recorded zero new local cases of coronavirus overnight — the 56th day in a row. There were no new cases confirmed in hotel quarantine or in interstate arrivals.
ANALYSIS: From tearing up the East West Link contract at a cost of more than a billion dollars, to cancelling the Commonwealth Games this week, the Andrews government is no stranger to budget blowouts.
Sir David Attenborough has lent his support to a Mornington Peninsula community's battle to prevent the partial demolition of a wooden jetty, arguing it provides valuable habitat for the threatened weedy seadragon.
#BREAKING
: Face masks will no longer be required outside in Victoria from midnight tonight, as long as physical distancing can be maintained.
Victorians will be allowed to celebrate Christmas with 30 people in their homes, Premier
@DanielAndrewsMP
has announced.
Ombudsman Deborah Glass says Daniel Andrews' reaction to the report "speaks volumes for his views on integrity and corruption" and "not accepting there are damning findings in the report is disappointing".
#BREAKING
: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a lockdown of metropolitan Melbourne as the state records its largest daily increase in COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
"You can't walk both sides of the fence. You either condemn this behaviour, or you don't."
@AndyMeddickMP
tells
@Raf_Epstein
on
#Drive
the incident involving an attack his daughter Kielan in the street on Thursday night has been deeply troubling and traumatic for his family.
#BREAKING
: Victoria has recorded zero new cases of coronavirus and no further deaths for the 23rd consecutive day.
Premier Daniel Andrews is speaking at 10:30am this morning.
Both of Cameron Ward's sons caught COVID-19 at an AFL match at the MCG.
The two Melbourne boys, aged eight and nine, didn't pass the virus on to their fully vaccinated parents despite being in close contact with them while they were infectious.
.
@Raf_Epstein
: Do you get sick of being asked to talk about the trauma surrounding
#AustraliaDay
every year?
@lidia__thorpe
: "Yeah, I do actually. Looking at my granddaughters today, I just hope that they don't have to deal with what I've had to deal with in my lifetime."
#Pellegrini
’s will re-open tomorrow, Tuesday 13 November.
They will be serving long blacks for free.
"It was Sisto’s favourite and will be in memory of him." ☕️
Victoria has recorded its first day without a new locally acquired case of COVID-19 in almost a month.
The zero day was detected from 30,117 test results processed on Tuesday.
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"It's the 21st of December."
That means it's time for "How To Make Gravy" by Paul Kelly. Turn up the volume and take a moment to remember anyone you'll be missing this Christmas. ❤️
“It’s too late, you have to wait now.”
Paramedic Michelle told Ali Moore on Mornings that people sick with COVID have been asking her to vaccinate them in the back of the ambulance.
Paul Guerra, CEO of
@vicchamber
"We're really disappointed. What we wanted was a roadmap to recovery, what we've got is a roadmap to nowhere...businesses will go broke"
#BREAKING
: Victoria has reintroduced mandatory mask rules, reduced the number of people allowed in homes and paused an increase on the number of people allowed in offices after a hotel quarantine worker contracted COVID-19
#BREAKING
: Former
#Melbourne
school principal Malka Leifer has been extradited from Israel to face sexual abuse charges in Australia.
Israeli media are reporting she will be flown to Germany and then to Australia, where she’s facing 74 charges in Melbourne.
#BREAKING
: The Holden brand will be "retired" from sales across Australia and New Zealand by 2021, the company has announced. Their statement does not say how many jobs will be lost.
A voice recording has spread online claiming Victorian MPs have confirmed the Andrews government will deny access to Medicare for the unvaccinated. Our fact checkers debunked the claim.
🚨 WE HAVE AN EGG! 🚨
Turns out
#Melbourne
's favourite Peregrine Falcons love their restored box so much that this morning they surprised us with AN EGG, says Dr Victor Hurley from
@BirdlifeOz
.
Exciting stuff!
#Drive
#BREAKING
Victoria becomes the first state to legalise assisted dying for the terminally ill, with MPs voting to give patients the right to request a lethal drug to end their lives from mid-2019