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The Demons have their work cut out for them against the Dockers, while the Kangaroos enter their clash with the Blues as the underdogs. Earlier, the Lions edged the Swans by two points in a classic finish. Follow live.

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

Substitute teacher Hannah Duffus says students projected porn on the whiteboard while she took roll call and she was asked if she was the "proper teacher".

The Bureau of Meteorology says the worst of the weather compared to the past two days is over, as winds continue to ease in south-eastern parts of the country throughout the afternoon and evening.

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

Four straight losses leaves Collingwood's premiership defence hanging by a thread, but Magpies coach Craig McRae vows to keep fighting after a harrowing defeat to Hawthorn.

When guitar maker Matthew Semmens heard a locally loved bunya pine tree needed to be cut down to make way for a new road, he was determined to get his hands on it and make it into musical instruments instead of wood chips.

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

When Jessica Mauboy's family gathered for a reunion, their family tree expanded to include one of Australia's most famous Olympians. 

I dived with glee back into a cherished chapter of my youth with the documentary Brats, made by former teen star Andrew McCarthy about the 1980s rise of teen movies and their young talents who came to be known as the Brat Pack.

Friday afternoon felt frighteningly similar to the 12-minute mark in a disaster movie. The difference is that in the movie, a villain is pulling the strings, but in reality, the culprit was far closer to home.

The Crows hit the front from a Josh Rachele goal with under a minute to go, but a knee injury to a key player sours the victory.

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

Bots designed to buy tickets en masse are behind a rise in ticket scalping. 

Comic artist Jo Waite has spent her adult life renting and squatting in Melbourne's inner suburbs, watching gentrification unfold in real time. Now, she is drawing her old homes one by one — but the beauty of the grand homes hides the reality of life inside them for tenants in decades past.

Parts of eastern Australia are set for another round of fierce wintry weather, with warnings of damaging winds for several states, and blizzards in Australia's alpine regions from Friday.

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

These Arthur Boyd paintings, commissioned in 1984, show the Shoalhaven River landscape from dawn to midnight. Now, for the first time, they're on display in the place they were created. 

As towers on Victoria's original wind farms approach the end of their life span, minds are turning to recycling options, especially for the tricky composite blades.

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

A class action has been launched against Knowmore Legal, with sexual abuse survivors alleging the centre encouraged them to accept compensation payments that were lower than what they could have received.

Regularly updated briefing from ABC News for Melbourne

First-year St Kilda player Lance Collard is suspended for six games after directing homophobic slurs towards two opponents in a VFL game.

An exclusive interview with an Australian surgeon, Dr Bushra Othman, who went on a medical mission to Gaza in the middle of the Israel-Gaza war. She describes what she went through in Gaza as "unfathomable" and says the enclave's healthcare system is hanging on by a thread.