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SUPERMODEL STARTER AS NEW-LOOK PLATE AWAITS

Supermodel Helena Christensen will sashay into Melbourne next week to attend the Spring Racing Carnival as the star international guest of Lexus. The label icon gets bandied about too often these days. But in Christensen’s case she is a true fashion...

ULTIMATE COX PLATE PREVIEW

A chance meeting in Bali 2½ years ago that reunited two schoolmates – former footy star John Barker and prominent racehorse owner Ozzie Kheir – has provided a Carlton connection to this year’s $6m Cox Plate. It is why Barker and Blues greats including...

SHE’S A FIGHTER

Helen Haines’ husband Phil has praised his wife’s determination and huge heart in the wake of the “horrendous” incident where the MP was run down outside her electoral office. An emotional Mr Haines spoke from The Alfred hospital where Dr Haines is...

DRIVEN BY HATE

The man charged with mowing down beloved Victorian federal MP Helen Haines, who lost a leg in hospital yesterday as she continued to fight for life, is a disturbed and drug-affected loner whose family has been friends with the politician for 20 years....

TARGETED HIT ON VIC MP

Victorian federal Independent MP Helen Haines was last night fighting for life after being mowed down by a car outside her electoral office in Wangaratta’s main street, with police investigating whether it was a deliberate and “politically motivated”...

YOUNG GUNS THE NEW STARS TAKING OVER RATINGS UNLOCKED WHO CLIMBED THE LADDER & WHO FELL OFF OVERRATED OR UNDERRATED? HAVE YOUR SAY

26 CHARLIE CURNOW Sydney The trade move was a masterstroke for both parties despite a slow start. Curnow won his third Coleman – two off Tony Lockett and Jason Dunstall – with 70 goals in 2026. Importantly, he bagged five in the qualifying final...

KINGSWOOD COUNTRY

It was a fairytale finish for Vic trainer Gavin Bedggood when 7yo Kingswood delivered the biggest win of his career in a dramatic Caulfield Cup marred by the death of Ohope Wins

HEAVEN ON EARTH

Sonny Grebe does not do subtle. The roofer from Brisbane with a flair for eye-popping silks has bought himself a Caulfield Cup runner, and if Wine Dark Sea’s colours are anything to go by, today’s $6m feature race just got a lot more interesting. Mr...

BLUE BAGGED

Carlton defender Lachie Cowan is set to receive a two-match ban after coming clean to the AFL about his drug use at teammate Will Hayward’s house party on Saturday night. Cowan, 21, will today be banned under the league’s ‘conduct unbecoming’ rules.

REVEALED WE’LL PAY FOR ABORTIONS

Ben Carroll has vowed to make abortions free for Victorian women, committing up to $1000 per procedure in a $30m spending blitz Labor hopes will wedge Opposition Leader Jess Wilson on reproductive rights.

WITNESS HISTORY

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STRIFE OF THE PARTY

Carlton’s off-season has been plunged into crisis after two star players were taken to hospital following a wild night of partying. Lachie Cowan and Will Hayward both received medical treatment on Sunday morning with reports emerging last night that...

POSTCARDS FROM FOOTY JET-SETTERS

The footballs have been replaced by beers and cheers as the stars soak up some holiday time around the world. Off-season travels are taking over social media with happy snaps being shared at a quicker rate than Brisbane goals in time-on. Europe is a...

BACHELOR TO MONSTER

‘I dodged a bullet’: Dating show co-star exposes the real Sam Staggering cost of business empire collapse revealed

I FEARED HE’D KILL ME

Former Bachelor star and celebrity fitness trainer Sam Wood’s wife Snezana feared she was “going to die” when he allegedly choked her until she couldn’t breathe and banged her head into the floor at their luxury Noosa penthouse.The shocking accusations...

BEAM OF HOPE FOR CANCER PATIENTS

Victorian families would no longer have to travel overseas for revolutionary cancer treatment under a Coalition plan to bring the therapy here. Opposition Leader Jess Wilson on Thursday will announce a Coalition government would help establish...

BEN’S BUSHWHACK

The battle over property rights and transmission lines has reached boiling point in Victoria’s regions as long-term farmers are fined for defending their land, saying they feel “unwanted” by Premier Ben Carroll’s government and fearing they won’t have...

GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

The state’s former transport department boss has likened the secretive birth of the Suburban Rail Loop project to the misuse of public money in Labor’s scandalous Red Shirts affair. Richard Bolt sensationally told the Herald Sun the project’s origins...

CRITICAL DEBT THREAT

Victoria’s health system is at breaking point with hospitals racking up hundreds of millions of dollars in deficits, hindering their ability to meet soaring demand. Senior health sources have told the Herald Sun that budget blowouts and growing...

FUTURE VICTORIA ‘G WHIZ

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SCARED IN THE CITY

An innocent woman who was randomly stabbed in the chest as she walked to work last year says she remains terrified and feels crime in the city has got worse since her brutal attack. Wan Lai has broken her silence a year after the attack.

SECRET SWANS TAPE

Detectives investigating the Sydney Swans’ Pullman hotel saga have been handed a secret new recording as Isaac Heeney, one of the players at the centre of the scandal, was named the club’s most valuable player. The 20-minute plus recording features...

CRIME VOTE VERDICT

Youth crime and bail laws will be the biggest issues driving votes at next month’s state election, while almost two-thirds of Victorians say the state is heading in the wrong direction under the Carroll government. Latest Herald Sun polling shows...

YOU’RE FULL OF BULL, JIM

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ claims that high inflation – which yesterday led to interest rates rising again – is the fault of the war in the Middle East was smacked down by RBA boss Michele Bullock, who referred to higher than expected domestic spending...

Heartbreak as 14yo sports star among three people killed just hours after Vic championships

A teenage volleyball star returning home from a tournament with her family is one of three people who died after a learner driver collided with two other vehicles in a horror smash in Victoria’s northwest. Latrobe Valley Volleyball on Monday evening...

GIVE US A CHANCE

The Great Australian Dream of home ownership is in tatters, with half of all aspiring buyers giving up, stark new research has found. Millions more are resigned to renting for life, as our housing class divide widens to the real estate haves and...

COMEBACK FOR THE AGES

EIGHT DUELS THAT COULD WIN THE FLAG

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I SHOULD BE SO LACHIE

GUT PUNCH TO OUR GAME OR COMMON SENSE CALL?

SHAMED SWANS’ SORRY RETURN

Sydney’s “Pullman Five” have fronted up at the club for the first time, apologising to the entire football program over last month’s infamous all-night bender at an East Melbourne hotel that resulted in an assault investigation

SHERRIN THE LOVE: KYLIE’S ALREADY HAVING A BALL AT THE MCG

Kylie Minogue got her first taste of footy at the MCG with the help of some handy Hawthorn goalsneaks on Tuesday afternoon. Forty years after she last performed at a footy event – a Fitzroy Football Club fundraising concert – Minogue had the Sherrin...

TOP NICK

Collingwood champion Nick Daicos stamped his authority on the competition in emphatic fashion, winning last night’s Brownlow Medal with a record 47 votes. The midfield maestro sealed the win by signing the front page of the Herald Sun in honour of...

NIGHT OF NIGHTS

Kylie Minogue will offer a third team to cheer for during AFL Grand Final week with a village dedicated to the pop princess to be set up outside the MCG. Grand Final “Fan Fest” in Yarra Park will this week be headlined by a new “Team Kylie”...

HAWKS HEARTBREAK

The Brisbane Lions have roared into the AFL grand final for the fourth straight year – and will chase another premiership hat-trick – after a thrilling win over Hawthorn in last night’s preliminary final at the MCG. Hawks fans were left devastated at...

COKE, GROG & MY BREAKDOWN

Former AFL star Paddy Ryder has opened up about his harrowing tale of addiction to alcohol and drugs during his 17-year career. It cost him his marriage, led to his kids living interstate and nearly cost him his life. But in a powerful and emotional...

SLASH CASH SPLASH

Battered Aussie households are staring down the barrel of three more interest rate hikes and a possible plunge into recession as the opposition blasts Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ “fail” report card from the International Monetary Fund. The global...

SHOP AFFRONT

Retailers have condemned the Victorian government’s watered-down workplace protection orders for staff facing abuse and violence, labelling the promised crackdown in Australia’s retail crime capital as a weak response that risks deepening the state’s...

BRAVERY IN BATTLE

Casey Battle says her daughters are her “light” in grief after revealing the recent heartbreak of losing her unborn child with husband and Hawthorn star Josh Battle. Casey shared the devastating news this week, with the couple and their two daughters,...

BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS

Friends of beloved grandfather Peter “Tiki” Mason have slammed the government over his “unforgivable” death after hitting a pothole, with the motorcycling community saying Labor has “blood on their hands”. Grieving bikers gathered at Parliament House...

KILLER POTHOLE OUTRAGE

A motorcyclist was killed after he hit a pothole on an “atrocious” stretch of road in Victoria’s west yesterday. The man, 71, died after striking the pothole and losing control on the Western Highway at Trawalla, near Ballarat. Beaufort local Pauline...

JACK’S JUMPING OUT OF HIS SKIN FOR PRELIM

Hawthorn’s Jack Ginnivan and teammates were soaking up the finals atmosphere yesterday at an open training session in front of adoring fans, ahead of this week’s preliminary final against Brisbane at the MCG.

49ers BLITZ RAMS AT MCG BUT THE WINNER IS ... MELBOURNE

The San Francisco 49ers might have dominated the LA Rams, but the real winner was Melbourne. A mammoth MCG crowd of 100,021 on Friday watched NFL history made in the sporting capital of the world. It was the best of everything about America’s game –...

NEW HIT TO CBD BEGGARS BELIEF

Could there be a more fitting end for a government that has turned Victoria into a mendicant state that on its way out the door it should decriminalise begging? If the polls are right and Victorians show Ben Carroll the exit in November, his legacy...

I’VE HAD A FANTASTIC LIFE

Blanche d’Alpuget, who has died at 82, wrote a 1982 biography about Bob Hawke that shaped his political future as the nation’s longest-serving Labor prime minister. The highly regarded author knew her subject well; Hawke and d’Alpuget had started a...

HAWKS SECRET TAPES BOMBSHELL

Explosive tapes and documents from the AFL’s Hawthorn racism probe, hidden until today, have exposed how the shocking case against coaching greats Alastair Clarkson and Chris Fagan collapsed, and the stars who spoke out in their defence.

MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE

Our city’s sports lovers are catching spring fever, with Friday’s historic NFL clash at the MCG kicking off a six-month long sporting extravaganza that will include the AFL finals, Spring Racing Carnival, Boxing Day Test, Australian Open golf and...

DANCE FEVER

Fed Square turned into a sea of pompoms on Sunday as huge crowds gathered for a shot at a cheerleading world record. Led by the San Francisco 49ers Gold Rush Cheerleaders, 1424 participants came out on top, smashing the previous cheerleading dance...

STAND UP FOR AUSTRALIA SPECIAL INVESTIGATION THE DARK SIDE OF WEIGHT LOSS JABS

The federal opposition will move to make burning or desecrating the Australian flag, and vandalising significant monuments, serious crimes under legislation to be introduced this year . The opposition would also seek to enshrine January 26 in...

CLASSY CATS NEVER IN DANGER

Shannon Neale and a red-hot Patrick Dangerfield were purring as Geelong swept aside fairytale finalist Carlton in a 33-point pounding at a packed MCG, booking a semi-final clash with Fremantle.

Health cut crisis

Anthony Albanese’s proposed health insurance rebate cuts for over-65s will likely bankrupt some private hospitals and push up the cost of pregnancy cover. A bombshell analysis also warns the government’s $3bn plan will drive more people into aged-care...

‘Toxic’ prisons crisis

Victoria’s prison system is at “breaking point” amid a toxic culture that is driving underpaid staff out of the job, a new report says. Prison workers say they are bullied, isolated and humiliated by prisoners and colleagues, warning that a mass exodus...

Miracle in Nepal mud

Miracles really do happen. Six days after the devastating floods through Nepal, a second Australian has been found alive. The Queenslander was located in Tibet and has spoken with their loved ones. Frustrated families of some of the other 42...

HANSON FISSION FOR VIC VOTES

Hiker Michael Keats has become the first Australian to be declared dead in the Nepal floods, which may become the most devastating natural disaster involving Australians overseas – surpassing the Boxing Day tsunami death toll.

PAIN & CONF USION

A veteran player agent and safety campaigner behind the concussion fight against the AFL says allowing trans and gender diverse players to compete in women’s footy is “beyond comprehension”. Peter Jess has warned the AFL that allowing post-pubescent...

BLUES’ DREAMS RUN WILD

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KLIM’S A MODEL OF STRENGTH

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Cats’ fine loophole

The AFL has been accused of leaving the door ajar for clubs to pursue waivers avoiding the legal consequences of player injuries after Geelong was hit with a $140,000 fine for not lodging its secret agreement with Jake Kolodjashnij. The Cats were hit...

10Y0 VICTIM’S CANCER BATTLE

The 10-year-old boy who was punched in the head while his mother was repeatedly stabbed with scissors in a random attack outside Melbourne’s police headquarters was in the city to get treatment for brain cancer. The boy, his mother Cherie and his...

MUM STABBED PROTECTING 10YO IN FRONT OF POLICE HQ

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States lag on violence

State governments have been accused of “dragging their feet” on stricter alcohol laws that would help reduce violence. Almost two years after national cabinet agreed to tighten sales restrictions, none have come into force.

HEENEY & FIANCEE ‘STILL TOGETHER’

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BAD BLOODS

LAP DANCES & SHOCK DRUG CLAIM BANNED STARS ‘DEEPLY SORRY’

SWANS SHAME

All players in scandal facing immediate bans Sydney slams stars over ‘serious breach’ The sexual assault scandal engulfing Sydney emanated from an ugly dispute involving a female and one of the Swans players over touching that was “off-limits”,...

SEX ASSAULT PROBE ROCKS SWANS

Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault involving Sydney Swans players at the Pullman East Melbourne early yesterday, with the club considering standing them down. Isaac Heeney, Chad Warner, James Jordon and Riley Bice were among players...

BATTLE OF THE BUSH

The nation’s leaders are coming together to confront major issues in the regions for News Corp Australia’s national Bush Summit, as “stressed” and “exhausted” Australians in the bush say life has worsened for the second year straight.

FULL FORCE

Premier Ben Carroll has pledged to double the number of police reservists, freeing up more frontline officers to get back on the beat. Mr Carroll has committed to a $57m plan, with 200 former police officers returning to the force as reservists to...

MY SECRET CANCER BATTLE

Collingwood legend Peter Daicos has revealed his secret cancer battle for the first time. Daicos told the Herald Sun he had previously spent three weeks recovering from serious surgery at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

SUPER SEND-OFF FOR PIES’ MAN OF STEELE

It’s the end of an era for Collingwood with dual premiership star Steele Sidebottom revealing he’ll hang up the boots at season’s end. The 35-year-old has played 373 games for the Magpies, winning flags in 2010 and 2023, and was runner-up in the 2018...

$12B TRAIN WRECK

More than $12bn of taxpayer money would go down the drain if the Suburban Rail Loop was ditched, according to a secret government briefing provided to Premier Ben Carroll. Confidential documents showing the staggering figure were presented to Mr...

SHOT FULL OF HOLES

Less than 2 per cent of Victorian motorists seeking compensation for damage caused by potholes are receiving payouts, secret government data reveals. Documents obtained under Freedom of Information show drivers are facing virtually impossible odds...

YOU KNEW: CATS PUT CONCUSSION CLAWS INTO AFL

Geelong will turn the heat back on the AFL when it produces email correspondence with the league regarding the Cats’ disastrous Jake Kolodjashnij concussion contract. The Cats are today expected to allege the AFL received written information regarding...

BLUE BOYS STAY IN FINALS HUNT ...

Carlton has knocked off a lacklustre St Kilda by 44 points at Marvel Stadium to remain on track for a wildcard berth. The Saints’ loss was further soured by a serious hamstring injury to star Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera.