UPDATE: Metro says it will “work closely” with an elderly man who runs the photo booth at Flinders Street Station to find it a new location. It’s stressed it’s not giving him the boot. Alan Adler (above), 86, has run the vintage photo booth outside the Elizabeth Street entry for almost 50 years. He was left distressed […]

Melbourne is lagging behind many global cities because of rising congestion, planning red tape and slow internet speeds, according to a major new study. Professor Greg Clark, world renowned global cities expert with the OECD and Brookings Institution told Ross and John that against 100 global cities, Sydney ranks 13th and Melbourne ranks 20th. “But […]

Telstra has issued an apology for a major outage on Monday. The telco has blamed a “software fault” for the disruptions. “We are very sorry for any disruptions our customers experienced yesterday,” Telstra said in a statement. “Starting from approximately 10:00am yesterday morning some key network equipment failed causing a disruption to 4G voice and data […]

Victoria is set to lose two private hospitals. This morning Healthscope informed the stock exchange of its decision to close the Cotham Private Hospital in Kew and the Geelong Private Hospital. In the announcement, the company said the hospitals are “under-performing”. Cotham has 63 beds and Geelong has 107. The hospitals are due to close […]

Almost 200 athletes from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games have applied for protection visas to stay in Australia, and those who have overstayed have the Minister for Home Affairs hot on their heels. Neil Mitchell said there’s something about the situation which doesn’t seem to add up. “It’s one thing that baffles me a little […]