An inspirational little girl is again going above and beyond to raise money for the Good Friday Appeal. Katie, aged eight, was born with neurofibromatosis — an incurable condition where a person lacks the gene that suppresses tumors, so every nerve ending has the possibility of developing a tumour. She has a tumour on her […]

The Good Friday Appeal is celebrating its 91st year this year. If you can, please give generously and help the Royal Children’s Hospital to provide world-class care to sick kids. Press HERE to donate to the Good Friday Appeal Executive Director of the Good Friday Appeal, Rebecca Cowan says the money raised this year will […]

The woman who was the face of the Good Friday Appeal as a little girl in 1991 has had a daughter of her own, in a remarkable story of beating the odds. Victoria ‘Tori’ was born with only three chambers in her heart, instead of four, was missing a valve and had two main arteries […]

AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan earlier this week announced he’ll step down from the game’s top job at the end of the season. He says he felt some nerves about the decision the night before announcing it, but now he’s feeling “good”. “I feel good. The game is in a good spot,” he told Neil Mitchell. […]

A man has drowned at St Kilda. Police were first notified that an unknown man had entered the water at St Kilda Beach, near the Bay Trail, and had not returned, at about 11.30pm last night. A major search and rescue effort involving local police, water police and the air wing followed, but tragically the […]

The mother of a 16-year-old girl with a rare and complex medical condition — Rett syndrome — has praised the “extraordinary” Royal Children’s Hospital for keeping her daughter alive. Maddy’s rare condition has no treatment and no cure. “Maddy is quite complex on both a physical and a medical level and of late, medically, she’s […]