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Kyle Hudson joined a betting app on his 18th birthday, and lost his final, $1,300 bet on the morning of his 2021 death. A coroner wants to know if anything can be done to stop it from happening again

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Exclusive: Sofie is devoted to the baby who was removed from her family, but she and advocates say the situation speaks to a desperate crisis in Victoria’s child protection system

The state’s commissioner for children and young people raised the alarm about cycles of ineffective referrals to voluntary services and closed reports in 35 cases of children who died after interactions with the system.

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After Pauline Hanson’s controversial speech at the National Press Club, Guardian Australia headed to Pakenham, one of the electorates One Nation is targeting in the Victorian state election, to see how the message landed

Jane Allan’s winning Darling portrait prize painting has raised eyebrows after her Doyle art award piece was compared to artist Nicholas Harding

Amid high costs and low confidence in the industry, some owner-occupiers are taking on Australia’s commercialised strata system

An early intervention program developed in Scotland is showing promising signs – but in an election year full of punitive rhetoric, its future is uncertain

In the first week at her new job, Andrea Davidson received a call from the deputy director of trauma at one of Melbourne's major hospitals.