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Melbourne in for wet and windy weekend
MELBOURNE is in for a windy weekend, with peak gusts of up to 110km/h expected.

Melbourne Festival: The TN preview
This year's Melbourne Festival, Brett Sheehy's second, is a program that repays some attention. The more you look, the more exciting it gets: it may not seem especially spectacular at a cursory glance but, once you get down to brass tacks, there's nothing in the performing art program that I wouldn't at least be curious to see. And more than a few events that make me plain excited.Sheehy is

Melbourne arrest over Katoomba shooting
A man will appear before an extradition hearing in Melbourne on Friday over the shooting of a man in an home invasion in the Blue Mountains last month.

Melbourne's anti-car push criticised
THE RACV says Melbourne Council is going too far with its plan to increasingly push cars out of the city.

Melbourne Fringe Festival launch
THE Melbourne Fringe Festival program was revealed yesterday at its Fitzroy launch with almost 300 shows set to take to the stage.

The new cancer - sports betting
What an odd coincidence. In the same week that rugby league struggles with a growing stench concerning a flood of serious betting being placed on a minor unlikely event that subsequently didn't occur, international cricket has been devastated by irrefutable proof that the Pakistani Test team is corrupt.

Swimming laps up new funding
PARALYMPIC sport and swimming will receive the lion's share of $30 million of extra  funding promised by the previous federal government.

What it felt like to be an Olympic champion, 10 years on
Catherine Freeman is still coming to terms with that win, writes Roy Masters.

Football: Mariners sink Victory
The Central Coast Mariners have recorded their second win of the season thanks to two goals from Rostyn Griffiths and Daniel McBreen, which handed the home side a 2-0 win over Melbourne Victory at Bluetongue Stadium in Gosford on Friday night.

Coates calls for betting reform
AOC president John Coates yesterday called on the federal government to pass legislation to give all sporting bodies the right to a share of the profits from betting.