Ricky Ponting was taken to hospital yesterday, driven by the Australian team doctor, after suffering a heart scare on day three of the first Test in Perth. 

Hospitals will have the power to cancel staff leave from Saturday, as authorities place Victoria’s health system under new measures to combat “increasing demand” amid a fourth Covid wave. 

More statues of women are set be erected in Melbourne as Town Hall declares that the gap between male and female statues is absurd and a “moral hazard”. 

A special school in Melbourne’s north is so full that students are forced to attend class for just two hours a day. 

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