Resdients and landowners affected by a Black Saturday bushfire in Victoria’s northeast have been awarded nearly thirty three million dollars in compensation.
MP Craig Thomson is cleared of nearly all allegations of fraudulent election funding.
Police are investigating the leak of a damaging video of former prime minister Kevin Rudd swearing.
Melbourne’s annual human rights, arts and film festival kicks off with a documentary on Paul Simon’s Graceland – an album produced in apartheid-era South Africa.