Category: MELBOURNE

Two Victorians Positive for Virus, Travelled to New South Wales

Two more Victorians with reported links to a bayside Thai restaurant have tested positive to coronavirus in New South Wales (NSW). The duo left Victoria on Dec. 30 and travelled to the south coast, visiting a hotel and cafe before getting tested in NSW, that state’s chief health officer Kerry Chant said on Friday. The…


Victoria Can Handle New Clusters: Premier

Victoria’s hard border with New South Wales (NSW) will start from 11.59 p.m. on Friday after eight locally acquired cases were recorded in less than 24 hours. Premier Daniel Andrews said Victoria is equipped to handle new coronavirus clusters. These cases, which first emerged on Wednesday night, ended a 60-day streak without infections for Victoria. All…


New Year’s Eve Celebrations Heavily Impacted By Restrictions in Australia

Sydney has largely banned crowds for its world-renowned pyrotechnic display, while Melbourne’s fireworks are cancelled. New South Wales restrictions were tightened further on Wednesday as the state battles to control its growing outbreak. Residents in Greater Sydney, including Wollongong, Central Coast and Blue Mountains, will be restricted to hosting five visitors in their homes, including…


Extasea on Record Pace in Melb-Devonport Yacht Race

Paul Buchholz’s Cookson 50 Extasea is on track to claim line honours and smash the 22-year-old race record in the Melbourne to Devonport yacht race. Extasea hit the front just 1600m into the race, which kicked off in Portsea on Sunday morning, and was the first yacht to turn south through the Port Phillip Heads….


Extasea on Record Pace in Melbourne to Devonport Yacht Race

Paul Buchholz’s Cookson 50 Extasea is on track to claim line honours and smash the 22-year-old race record in the Melbourne to Devonport yacht race. Extasea hit the front just 1600m into the race, which kicked off in Portsea on Sunday morning, and was the first yacht to turn south through the Port Phillip Heads….


Melbourne-Davenport Yacht Race Starts This Sunday

A 22-year-old record is under threat in this year’s Melbourne to Davenport yacht race. With favourable wind conditions, a fast start is predicted in Sunday’s race which gets underway from Portsea. A northerly is set to greet the Mornington Peninsular which should help the 22 starters who are expected to take full advantage of the…


Victoria Cracks Down on Aircrew Quarantine

Victoria has followed the lead of Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) by cracking down on a “loophole” that allowed international airline crew to avoid hotel quarantine. New laws make it mandatory for airline crews and technicians from international carriers transiting through Melbourne to enter the state’s rebooted hotel quarantine system. Under a previous exemption,…


Giant Sheep Dogs To Protect Endangered Bandicoots

In a historic moment in Australian conservation history, two giant, guardian dogs are protecting a recently released population of 20 gravely threatened bandicoots, by ignoring them. With a little help from the dogs and some sheep in the grasslands of Skipton in Victoria’s southwest, the embattled native species of Eastern Barred Bandicoots have a chance…


Car Rally to Protect Australia From CCP Influence Tours Melbourne

MELBOURNE—A group of mostly Chinese-Australians has held a rally of around 40 cars across Melbourne’s northwest to raise awareness about the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in Australia. The second rally of its type held in Melbourne this year saw citizens fit their cars with banners displaying slogans stating “Protect Australia From CCP Influence,”…