Andi Yu is a journalist and digital producer for ABC News Melbourne. She has formerly worked as reporter for Australian Associated Press in Melbourne and Sydney.
Floral tributes have continued to be added outside Ms Haines's Wangaratta office, with grief still raw among local and interstate visitors alike.
Wangaratta barber Ricky Jefferies says he pulled a 43-year-old driver out of his car soon after he allegedly struck MP Helen Haines. The business owner says he saw a knife in the man's pocket and threw it away.
Police charge a 43-year-old man over an attack that left MP Helen Haines with critical injuries.
A 42-year-old man, who the ABC understands to be Ali Albadri, was found at a property yesterday afternoon. His death is being investigated by homicide detectives.
About a thousand people have packed out a venue in Melbourne's south-east to honour the lives taken three years ago when Hamas militants attacked Israel.
A Suburban Rail Loop construction rethink will conserve parkland by displacing more residents and businesses, including one business that has already moved once.
Topic: Urban Development and Planning
A week on from the flood disaster, another four Australians have been found safe.
A chemical testing lab begins testing unapproved peptides as demand for the products booms on social media.
Tibetan and Nepali Australians worry about family and friends missing after a flash flood struck the Nepal-Tibet border.
Doctors are warning there could be a "contaminated batch" of counterfeit peptides causing hospitalisations in Victoria, after the seventh case of liver toxicity.
Erin Patterson was found guilty of three murders and one attempted murder last year. This week, she appealed her convictions. Here are some key points we learned from the hearings.
The most dysfunctional emergency departments in Victoria are in regional areas, according to data, with doctors describing overcrowded corridors, lapses in patient safety and burnt-out staff.
Marat Ganiev was seeking a permanent stay on his case, with his lawyer arguing the multiple changes to the prosecution case were an abuse of process.
Victoria's fire rescue commissioner has written a strongly worded letter to the secretary of the United Firefighters Union, accusing him of aggressive and inappropriate communication amid a long-running conflict.
The interim vice-chancellor of the Australian National University has apologised for the institution's failure to protect the psychological safety of Jewish students and staff during pro-Palestinian encampments in 2024.
A royal commission hears how both the universities of Melbourne and Sydney have improved processes for students to make complaints in the wake of antisemitic experiences by staff and students, which escalated in 2024.
Paris Enten has told the antisemitism royal commission her experiences of Monash University, including during an overseas trip, caused her mental health to deteriorate.
The president of a Jewish student body tells antisemitism royal commission that he had a relatively untroubled childhood until he went to university.
Students and staff described "low level" antisemitism escalating into feeling unsafe and threatened following societal reactions to the Hamas terrorist attacks in October 2023.
Football fans across the country ride the gamut of emotions as the Socceroos suffer heartbreaking defeat in the FIFA World Cup, having come from behind to force extra time and penalties against Egypt in their knockout clash in Texas.
First Nations babies born through a midwifery program offered at three Melbourne hospitals are more likely to be full term and a healthy weight, a study has found.
Megan Hancocks bought a drug labelled as the peptide compound retatrutide in cash from a beautician. Within a week of her second dose, she was in acute liver failure.
Premier Jacinta Allan has been joined by Anthony Albanese, Julia Gillard and other politicians — not including Pauline Hanson — in denouncing the language used to describe her on political signs seen in the Melbourne CBD.
Indian authorities allege Melbourne maths teacher Sunil Sharma was murdered by his brother and dumped in a canal. He had been in India to prepare a property for sale.
Australian man Matthew Paton, a Victoria Police sergeant, has died in Peru after falling up to 400 metres from a mountain path while walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
Topic: Accidents and Emergency Incidents
