Up and down the east coast a string of pre-Christmas transactions have lined the pockets of vendors with the surprise sale of businessman David Gyngell and Delvene Cornell’s Hotel Brunswick on a waterfront site near Byron Bay. 

Australia's most decorated Olympian Emma McKeon has thrown her support behind a new Surf Life Saving Australia’s campaign that will see a QR code on every Nutri-Grain pack alerting people to the closest patrolled beach. 

Victoria’s population plunged by 44,700 people over the last year amid the closure of international borders and the effect of pandemic shutdowns.

Home value hikes topping $100,000 have blasted affordability in Melbourne’s 10 cheapest suburbs and left just one area with houses under $500,000.

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