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Child sex abuse victims back royal commission return to Ballarat but anger ...

Child sex abuse survivors have welcomed the decision by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to return to Ballarat next year. The commission's third and final sitting investigating church authorities in Ballarat will ... >> view original

Three To Watch - Ballarat

The enigmatic Parwan Prince has had three runs in the past 13 months registering two excellent victories and a last-start performance at Bendigo where he failed to beat a runner home. Jockey Michael Dee stating to stewards post race that the son of ... >> view original

ST Gill's colonial paintings at State Library of Victoria and Ballarat

The paradox of ST Gill is plainly expressed on the State Library of Victoria's website and in the exhibition itself. He was, we are told, “Australia's most significant artist of the mid-19th century”, yet has been all but forgotten for the past 100 ... >> view original

Quakers Hill nursing home killer Roger Dean appeals life sentences

Relatives of those killed and injured in the Quakers Hill nursing home fire in Sydney have expressed their frustration over an appeal by the nurse responsible. Roger Dean is appealing against the life sentences he received, after pleading guilty to 11 ... >> view original

Western Sydney University campaign highlights graduate's extraordinary story

Rick Morton is the social affairs writer at the The Australian with a particular policy focus on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, aged care and population, but also writing on homelessness, social trends, drugs, and religion. He also writes ... >> view original

Clive Palmer's alleged $5 million job offer

THE FORMER general manager of Clive Palmer's Coolum resort has told a court how his former boss offered him a job working for him for five years for five million dollars. Bill Schoch told the Supreme Court how Mr Palmer, whom he has known for 40 years, ... >> view original

Hockey warns China might walk from deal

TREASURER Joe Hockey has warned it will take a decade for China to come back to the negotiating table if a free-trade deal with Australia is blocked in parliament. MR Hockey spoke to Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei on the sidelines of the G20 ... >> view original

Geelong Grammar teacher 'offered generous retirement' after student made abuse ...

Prestigious school Geelong Grammar paid a former housemaster and teacher to retire early after a former student raised abuse claims against him, the royal commission into child sex abuse has heard. Convicted paedophile Jonathan Harvey said when the ... >> view original

Question Time: Five things we learned today

A stronger Australian response to the refugee crisis in the Middle East is just days away. That was the biggest message from Question Time today. 1. Tony Abbott takes a risk by waiting to act on Syria. The Prime Minister went into Question Time knowing ... >> view original

Mum's haunting emergency call reporting William Tyrell missing: 'It's very out ...

The emergency phone call made by the mother of William Tyrrell, the young Australian boy who disappeared without a trace nearly a year ago, has been released by New South Wales Police. Police believe the phone call will aid the public in identifying ... >> view original