Victoria

The Working with Children Check is under the spotlight after a man was charged with 70 offences at a Melbourne childcare centre.

A seven-hour siege has come to a violent end after police exchanged gunfire with a man in Victoria, killing him.

ELLEN RANSLEY: It’s clear that when it comes to keeping children safe, tinkering around the edges of a system which is designed to help families but is instead failing them, will not cut it

A man charged with child rape and bestiality in a case linked to a series of alleged childcare centre sexual assaults that have shocked Australia has been unmasked. 

The man struck his victim at least three times to the head with a baseball bat and then waited 17 minutes before calling an ambulance.

A distressing text message sent to parents whose children could have been in contact with an alleged sex offender working at a Melbourne childcare centre has been revealed.

Child safety advocates are demanding a complete rethink of Australia’s early education system and workforce arrangements as a second Melbourne childcare worker has been charged with dozens of serious offences. 

New charges have been laid against a second man over child sexual abuse allegations, with the man believed to be known to Joshua Brown, who has been charged with 70 offences.

Tributes are flowing for the 43-year-old who has been described as a ‘passionate, caring, hard working person’.

WATCH: A Virgin Australia flight from Melbourne has been delayed after a snake was discovered on board, with a snake catcher describing the urgency of the situation.

Millions of residents are being affected by the ‘bomb cyclone’ that is hammering large areas of the east coast as Sydney Airport is forced to use one runway and Virgin, Jetstar cancel flights.

Pictures have been released of the man allegedly at the centre of a shocking childcare sex abuse scandal that authorities believe could have affected as many as 1200 children.

‘Don’t take it for granted, your children ... you never know when it’s the last time you get to hold them.’

Erin Patterson, the alleged mushroom killer, will soon learn her fate in the triple murder trial over deaths arising from her death cap mushroom, beef Wellington lunch. 

Police have found human remains at a Melbourne home as the search for missing 23-year-old Joshua Bishop takes a turn.