Ambulance ramping times were rising years before Covid and associated with a “significant” increase in patients’ risk of dying. Ratepayers have reacted with outrage that the City of Melbourne’s chief executive has pocketed another pay rise. A footballer in Melbourne’s northwest has been suspended for seven weeks for punching an ex-AFL defender, leaving him with a broken jaw. Council protest-vote risks the Caulfield Cup being held in front of capacity crowds.
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