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THE outgoing boss does not clear his desk until Friday, the headhunters who will conduct the "global search" for his replacement have yet to be appointed and the job advertisement for the new and improved CEO of the Melbourne Recital Centre is yet to be written. Yet none of that..read more

BRIAN Waldron is quietly becoming Melbourne's man for all football codes.

WHEN things go wrong, politicians call a news conference. When they go spectacularly wrong — as they have with myki — they call Jean Ker Walsh.

ACTING Foreign Minister Simon Crean has urged Indian leaders not to fuel hysteria over the killing of a student in Melbourne, after India's External Affairs Minister called the stabbing a "heinous crime on humanity".

A MALTHOUSE-Buckley style coaching pact in which John Longmire will succeed Paul Roos as Swans coach at the end of next season has ensured the North Melbourne hunt for its senior coach is down to a race in three.