Doosie Morris

“I can promise you, once this is done and dusted, there will be the biggest party Carlton has ever seen and we will be looking forward to sculling a few unionised beers,” says the Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary. After months of pressure from…

The complete works of the French impressionists swirl around you in another lavish multi-sensory art experience that whisks you away to the Belle Époque. Its closing date has just been announced. In October, Melbourne digital art gallery The Lume’s…

Youth-led not-for-profit organisation Consent Labs is hoping to expand the country’s film and television rating system by adding a new classification that will alert Aussies to content that contains lack of consent, much like they do with…

The 70-kilometre waterway that runs through Melbourne’s northern suburbs and out to the Yarra at Dights Falls, Abbotsford, has become a raging torrent in recent hours. While there have been no reports of damage to properties, the creek’s surging…

As expected, rain has already started falling over Melbourne. And those falls will only get heavier overnight and into Thursday and even Friday. “This … is probably the most significant rain event widespread across the state this year,” said the…

A new rooftop pavilion – with public green space and state-of-the-art solar technology – has been proposed for Melbourne’s iconic (and up for sale) Nicholas Building. Revealed today, the plan seeks to bring the creative colony into a new era while…

At 1.10pm today, Sydney smashed a more than 70-year-old record and officially recorded its wettest year ever – and there’s more on the way. But the torrential conditions didn’t stop tweeters from having a field day. Everything’s cool, right? Can…

At 1.10pm today, Sydney’s Observatory Hill recorded 2199.8 millimetres of rain for the year so far – making it the city’s wettest year on record. The gauges at Observatory Hill have received more rain in 2022 than any other year since records began…

Last week, after six months of subsidies which halved the fuel excise – a flat tax we pay on our petrol – the full excise was reinstated. Over the next few weeks, as supplies purchased by retailers at the discounted rate dwindle, the cost per litre…

The question of what can go in which wheelie bin seems to get more complicated every year, but the Victorian government is determined to simplify things by standardising a pioneering four-bin system across the state by 2030. We’ll be the first in the…

A huge rooftop infinity pool – perhaps the biggest in Australia, by surface area – is coming to Melbourne. It’ll be 35 metres long and 15 storeys high – surrounded by luxurious sun lounges and cabanas and with a sky-high restaurant and bar…

For nearly 100 years a stately, but somehow unimposing, building has stood opposite St Paul’s Cathedral, on Swanston Street and the Flinders Lane. Maybe you’ve been inside for an art show or to take a life drawing class or to have your pants hemmed?…

The city will soon be home to the tallest tower in the southern hemisphere (where Melbourne’s most expensive apartment sold for a cool $35 million), and Australia’s largest contemporary art and design gallery (described as an architectural marvel).…

Chris “Mitchy” Mitchell has been running the 169-year-old Birmingham Hotel – an old-fashioned, no-frills pub’s pub on Smith Street in Melbourne – for close to 10 years. It’s taken the lifelong Magpie-mad bar manager a few of those years to turn the…

It’s been just four short months since her last visit finally came to an end, but today the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) officially declared that the uninvited and unwelcome weather event, La Niña, is underway for a third year. That means rain and a…

A report released last week found that 78 per cent of Australian women have experienced sexual harassment in public spaces. That means nearly eight out of every 10 women you might see on the bus, at the dog park, walking along the footpath or waiting…

Ahh, another winter of discontent is behind us, and spring has officially … No, we won’t say it. But actually, has it? Every year the same conversations come around. Just when you think it’s safe to celebrate the changing of the seasons some smarty…

Homer called it “liquid gold”, Hippocrates dubbed it “the great healer” and Galen, one of antiquity’s leading medical scholars and physicians, praised it for its positive health effects. While Aussies might have been a bit slow to the party, our…

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains an image of a person who has died. Archie Roach passed away on July 30, 2022, and his family has given permission for his name and image to be used. At 9.20am…

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has raised the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Outlook to “alert”, meaning there’s a 70 per cent chance of us experiencing a third wet summer in a row. Four out of the seven climate models used to predict the…