Award-winning children’s author Andy Griffiths believes imagination is the key to a successful life. He spoke to the Herald Sun about how he embraces weirdness and whether AI could replace creative people >

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Airwing footage shows the dramatic pursuit of a 21-year-old BMW driver who was allegedly doing 123km/h in a 60km/h zone before abandoning his car and jumping multiple residential fences in a failed bid to escape. >

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Health Minister Harriet Shing has backed Jacinta Allan as Premier, but dodged questions about community perceptions of her leadership, as polls continue to slide. >

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Three adults and four children have been forced to run their lives after their home went up in flames in an arson attack in Melbourne’s northwest, with a jerry can left at the scene. >

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Jan and Bec Daniher have spoken of their mixed feelings ahead of the FightMND fundraiser as the AFL unveil a Neale Daniher Trophy to “recognise the qualities and values Neale embodied throughout his life’’. >

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‘I wanted to keep contributing, even in my darkest hour’: Former Australian of the Year Professor Richard Scolyer has lost his brave battle with cancer. Read his last message to the nation. >

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New data has exposed the grim reality of Victoria Police’s station closures, revealing the communities locked out of their local cop shops are suffering the state’s steepest crime rises. See your risk. >

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More than half of Victoria’s road crashes happen on major highways and country roads, and the RACV wants everyday drivers to nominate the most dangerous stretches. >

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For a party hoping to make gains in Labor’s heartland of Melbourne’s western suburbs, dwindling branch numbers — revealed in leaked membership figures — will have strategists nervously checking the spreadsheets. >

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Melbourne City Council has spent an eye-watering sum of ratepayer money on more than 100 trips in just 18 months— with junket-loving Lord Mayor Nick Reece not the only one travelling. >

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A 16-year-old has been charged for allegedly stabbing a homeless man while on bail. The boy, who was one in a group of balaclava-wearing youth, was arrested on Saturday at Bendigo Station for the attack, which police say was “seemingly unprovoked”. >

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A Melbourne teacher has revealed she witnessed anti-Semitic behaviour by students at an eastern suburbs school but was told by the leadership not to make a fuss because the children were “young” and “don’t understand”. >

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A victim of Melbourne’s “hospitality terrorism” campaign has lashed Premier Jacinta Allan, saying “she needs to open her eyes” to see the impact of the city’s terrifying bar wars on the public. >