Melbourne weather: Damaging winds cause chaos throughout Victoria and other top stories.

• Melbourne weather: Damaging winds cause chaos throughout Victoria

  

  An Ambulance Victoria spokesman has said it's not yet known how many people were injured in the severe weather on Sunday. He noted at least eight people had been directly injured from weather-related incidents. A Tecoma woman aged in her 80s suffered pelvic injuries and was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition. A woman aged in her 90s suffered head injuries after a roof collapsed into the kitchen of her Badgers Creek home, on Sunday morning. A man aged in his 70s was injured af..

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• Motorcyclist dies in Queensland crash

  

  Australian Associated PressA man has died when the motorbike he was riding crashed into an embankment wall near Gympie in southeast Queensland.The 52-year-old rider from the Sunshine Coast was approaching Coonangibba Bridge on Tuchekoi Road in Imbil about 10am on Sunday when his motorbike left the road and crashed, police say.He died at the scene.A pedestrian was killed after being struck by a vehicle on the Gold Coast.The 22-year-old was hit on Ferny Avenue, Surfers Paradise, on Saturday night ..

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• Back down on greyhound ban and risk tarnishing the Mike Baird brand

  

  The Baird government hasn't seen a crisis like this before. Whatever course Mike Baird ultimately decides to take upon his return to NSW Parliament on Monday carries grave risk.Stay firm on the greyhound racing ban, and febrile Nationals MPs may well attempt to bring down their leader, Deputy Premier Troy Grant. The threat of blowing up the Coalition, by voting with Labor to overturn the greyhound ban, has even been dangled, although it is a remote chance. More News Videos Previou..

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• John McCain Pulls Support, Won't Vote For Trump

  

  Arizona Senator John McCain has withdrawn his support for Donald Trump and will write in a "good conservative Republican" at the polls next month.McCain, a former presidential candidate, is perhaps the highest profile elected official to flee Trump, who has said he will not withdraw from the race for president despite increasing calls to do so from across the political spectrum after audio tapes emerged Friday showing Trump making demeaning comments about women."I have wanted to support the cand..

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• Creepy clown craze: WA man 'chases teenagers while wearing disguise'

  

  Creepy clown craze: WA man 'chases teenagers while wearing disguise' Updated October 09, 2016 18:36:06 A woman claiming she hit a pedestrian wearing a clown suit and a man scaring teenage girls are among a spate of creepy clown reports police in Western Australia have recently received. In one incident, a 19-year-old man allegedly chased a group of teenage girls while dressed as a clown in the main shopping district of Northam, east of Perth, on Saturday night.Police s..

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• Zombie bills not dead yet: Cormann

  

  Colin Brinsden, AAP Economics CorrespondentAustralian Associated PressFederal Labor may call the government's savings bills stuck in the Senate "zombie measures" because the opposition insists it will never support them.But Finance Minister Mathias Cormann doesn't agree with the description because he's confident they will eventually pass into law."If you look at what has happened in the last two or three years, a whole series of savings measures that Labor initially opposed - and opposed for qu..

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• Woman killed in horror head-on crash near Bacchus Marsh

  

  Police are investigating how a 30-year-old female driver ended up on the wrong side of a highway, colliding head-on with a four-wheel-drive in north-west Victoria.The Taylors Lakes woman died at the scene. Two children and a 32-year-old man are now in hospital. The scene of a fatal crash on the Western Highway on Saturday night. Photo: Channel Nine News The woman was driving a Holden Astra in Hopetoun Park on Saturday night, just before 11pm when her car veered onto the wrong side of th..

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• 'Budgie Nine' political staffer quits

  

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• Random drug tests spark claims of homophobic bullying at Newtown Police Station

  

  Random drug tests spark claims of homophobic bullying at Newtown Police Station Updated October 09, 2016 15:24:06 Newtown Police station in Sydney is at the centre of allegations of homophobic bullying, with three officers and one former officer accusing management of targeting them for drug testing because they are gay. Key points:Four police officers told they were selected for random drug testing in 2015Men claim no other police at station were testedAllegations ta..

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• Stroke patients missing out on life-saving treatment after hours

  

  A Sydney hospital with 24-hour stroke care refused to perform a life-saving procedure on a patient because he arrived 45 minutes after business hours.Prince of Wales Hospital administrators would not allow Shellharbour resident Nick Taousanis to undergo an endovascular clot retrieval in August, despite clinicians being on-site and ready to operate, because the support team had finished their shift, his family were told. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide 45 minu..

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