Patrick Hatch

1 week ago | theage.com.au | Patrick Hatch |Kieran Rooney

By Patrick Hatch and Kieran Rooney June 18, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Private company Metro Trains is receiving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to offset lower passenger revenue, allowing the company to record bumper profits despite reduced patronage post-pandemic.

2 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Alexander Darling |Patrick Hatch

“After that, [while] I was still talking to the cops, an abalone truck did exactly what I did – skidded left, then skidded right, and then he flipped right in front of me and slid an extra 100 metres past me. “If I was on the road still, he would have run right into me.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Alexander Darling |Patrick Hatch

By Alexander Darling and Patrick Hatch June 12, 2025 — 4.05pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. David Nguyen didn’t know what he had hit. The Princes Freeway was nearly pitch black on the stretch of road near the start of a bridge over the Werribee River. Driving in his Volkswagen Crafter van, he couldn’t see that the truck ahead of him had just hit a steel plate covering the road’s expansion joint.

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Alexander Darling |Patrick Hatch

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3 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Patrick Hatch

It took a decade for Southern Cross Station to install bins. This might be why, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Melbourne’s second-busiest and arguably most-maligned train station – Southern Cross – has reinstalled rubbish bins on its platforms, more than 10 years after they returned to other inner-city stations. It’s a small win for commuters that also raises the question: what took so long?