Sabra Lane: Back home now, the Victorian Government's proposing a big shake-up of the state's hate speech laws to protect people who are vilified based on their disability, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation. Richard Willingham: Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann leads a community in Melbourne's inner east. The reforms will also expand protected attributes beyond race and religion to cover disability, …
Some of the flowers at Melissa and Paul Churchman's wildflower nursery took five years to grow, but they were wiped out within minutes when a bushfire ripped through their Sarsfield property in late December. "It's five years to get the plantation up and going … it just feels like forever," she said. There is a government-funded $75,000 grant for primary …