Rohan Smith

The maximum sentence for the crime of sexual penetration of a child in Victoria is 15 years imprisonment.

“Melbourne, are we really going to live like this?”

The city is just waking up outside Regale — one of Melbourne’s newest and most inspired venues.

He is the beanie-wearing vigilante trawling internet dating apps for predators who he later exposes to legions of adoring subscribers online.

Lawyers for killer cook Erin Patterson say a bombshell email sent during her trial is evidence of a significant miscarriage of justice that should see her conviction and 33-year jail term quashed.

The lawyer for two women at the centre of a sexual assault allegation involving Sydney Swans players has claimed what took place in the hotel room with adult entertainers is “disgusting” and “abhorrent”.

A sordid allegation about what several Sydney Swans players did inside a Melbourne hotel room has come as “no surprise” to the man who blew the whistle on all 18 AFL clubs two years ago.

The far-right One Nation party is drip-feeding information to the Victorian public.

Joel Smith knows exactly what it’s like to be at the centre of a major AFL controversy.

A prominent member of the Victorian chapter of the far-right white supremacist National Socialist Network has died amid claims he took his own life.