4+ week, 1+ day ago   (226+ words) CAIRNS, QLD. — The co-founders of ‘booming Aussie bush brand‘ Ringers Western are James, Emma, and Matteo Salerno. Their father is James Gino Salerno. The elder Salerno was involved in high-profile criminal proceedings in South Australia. He was convicted of child…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (155+ words) ELWOOD, VIC. — Four people have been charged over their alleged involvement in the trafficking of an illicit substance in Melbourne’s bayside suburbs. Detectives from the Prahran Divisional Response Unit executed a search warrant an apartment on Addison Street, Elwood, about 8.30am on…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (133+ words) LIVE: Australian Air League students speak to astronauts aboard the Space Station victoriannews.com.au MELBOURNE, VIC. (TELEBRIDGE). — Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboard the International…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (244+ words) LATROBE, TASMANIA. — Tonight, Monday, August 3, students from the Geneva Christian College in Latrobe, Tasmania, will talk live with Astronaut Sophie Adenot, KJ5LTN, onboard the International Space Station. The contact is scheduled for 10:00:00 UTC or 8pm AEST. The ground station for this contact…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (784+ words) CANBERRA, ACT. — At a two-and-a-half-hour Senate grilling on Friday, Telstra executives revealed just how bad their catastrophic outage earlier this month was. At its peak, it affected about 45 per cent of calls and data across the telco giant’s national network....

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (942+ words) Timothy Minchin, La Trobe University and Michelle Shu Wun Kuek, La Trobe University In Germany, Japan and the United States, famous carmakers are in trouble. One reason is intense competition from Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers – and growing public demand for…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (415+ words) MANSFIELD SHIRE COUNCIL, VIC. — Mansfield Council says that it has contained rate increases within the 2.75 per cent cap insisted by the State Government, despite inflation of four per cent. Mansfield Mayor Cr Steve Rabie said the 2026/2027 Council Budget reflected a careful…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (744+ words) Faraz Hasan, University of Canberra Australians woke up this morning to a major outage affecting Telstra, the largest telecommunications network in the country. But mobile phones weren’t the only thing knocked out of action. Some EFTPOS payment services, taxi payment…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (329+ words) Delivered by the State Government to replace the unit’s previous tethered hydraulic tools, the northern Victorian unit is one of the latest to receive the state-of-the-art Holmatro Pentheon equipment, which includes cutting and spreading tools to efficiently make space to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (592+ words) MANSFIELD, VIC. — Mansfield Shire Council Chief Executive Officer Kirsten Alexander has renewed her contract and will continue leading the organisation for a further four years. Mayor Cr Steve Rabie, who chairs Council’s CEO Employment Matters Committee, said the decision reflected Council’s…...