Melissa Brown

4 days 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.

5 days 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.

1 week 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.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Melissa Brown

A parliamentary committee has blamed the cancellation of Victoria's 2026 regional Commonwealth Games on Daniel Andrews, Jacinta Allan and other key ministers, and accused the state government of impeding it from collecting vital evidence during its inquiry. A final report into the multi-million-dollar cancellation has been delivered, finding the government's proposed multi-city regional games was overly ambitious and not feasible in the timeframe for the event.

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Melissa Brown

Kylee Dennis had spoken to her mother about the "Hi Mum" scam. But when the former police officer, who now runs her own scams investigation business, got out of her pool in December 2024 and found three missed calls from her mum on her phone, her heart sank. "She received a text that says 'hi mum, I've accidentally dropped my phone in the sink while cleaning up. It's completely dead, this is my new number,'" Ms Dennis said.