
Melissa Brown
Digital Producer, Radio News Producer, and Newsreader at ABC Melbourne
Digital Producer, Radio News Producer, and Newsreader at ABC News (Australia)
“Everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio” (R Taylor) Early morning news in Melbourne. Queenslander, HATES the cold! Opinions/RTs mine.
Articles
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Kristian Silva |Joseph Dunstan |Tim Callanan |Melissa Brown
Hello from inside Courtroom 4 for another day of the Erin Patterson trial. The Patterson/Wilkinson families have turned up in force today, occupying an entire row of seats on one side of the courtroom. Ian Wilkinson has returned to watch proceedings. The jury has been brought in, and per the court etiquette, Erin Patterson stands in the court dock as they enter. Today she's wearing a pink linen shirt.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Melissa Brown
A mural in Melbourne's CBD honouring women who have allegedly died as a result of predominantly male violence has been defaced. The "She Matters" mural bearing the names, pictures and artistic images of more than 100 Australian women who were allegedly murdered or died due to violence has been spray-painted with the words "war on men".
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Elizabeth Byrne |Melissa Brown
Easter began early in the national capital, with a local Lutheran Church greeting Easter Sunday at dawn. After the hymns the group shared communion, with a chorus of kookaburras and magpies in the background. Pastor Jacob Traeger led the service as the sun rose over the Canberra skyline. "The Christian message about Easter is that we can always have hope because there's no situation that is beyond God, there's nothing that's too far for God to get to," he said.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Melissa Brown
A six-year-old boy has been found "without a scratch" after spending the night lost in thick bushland at Olinda, in Melbourne's outer east. A local teenager who was out on his usual weekend mountain-bike ride came across the boy sitting on a path. The boy has been reunited with his mother and cleared of any injury by paramedics. A local teenager on his normal weekend mountain bike ride has found a young boy who had been missing overnight in bushland in Melbourne's outer east.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Melissa Brown
An investigation into Victoria's 2024 VCE exam blunder has found staff were under pressure to make up for lost time after multiple delays and missed deadlines for the completion of samples and examination papers.
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