A 12-year-old boy has died days after a horror collision involving five cars on the Monash Freeway in Melbourne.

The boy was rushed to the Royal Children's Hospital in a critical condition with upper body injuries after the crash near the Stud Road off-ramp around 2pm on Sunday.

Police have today confirmed that he died from his injuries yesterday.

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A 46-year-old Sunbury woman who was in the same Mazda as the boy was also critically injured in the crash and was taken to the Alfred Hospital for treatment.

An eight-year-old girl also in the car was hospitalised with minor injuries.

The three occupants of a blue Mitsubishi – a 68-year-old Campbellfield woman, a 39-year-old Glenroy woman and a six-year-old girl – were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Those in the three other vehicles involved in the crash were not injured.

The driver of a Volkswagen Tiguan, a 34-year-old Berwick man, was arrested and released pending inquiries.

Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the crash.

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No illnesses have been reported, but concerned customers are urged to seek advice.

A state's political donation and campaign funding laws have been ruled constitutionally invalid, in a case that could have national implications.

In a landmark 71-page judgment today, the High Court struck out Victoria's Australian-first political donation rules.

The court found part 12 of the Electoral Act, which regulates political donations and election expenditure, "impermissibly burdens" the Australian constitution's implied freedom of political communication.

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Victorian Labor introduced donation caps in 2018, limiting individual payments to candidates and parties to under $5000 each term.

But Labor, Liberal, and National parties were still allowed to withdraw unlimited sums from their respective fundraising bodies, known as nominated entities.

Other parties and independents could not set up their own nominated entities, with West Party candidate Paul Hopper and former independent candidate Melissa Lowe challenging the constitutional validity of the laws.

"All Australian voters want, is a level playing field," Hopper said.

"The High Court has recognised that the two major parties have been rigging the system to stop new parties and independents."

The Victorian government was ordered to pay costs to Hopper and Lowe.

Premier Jacinta Allan said the state Labor government would consider the High Court's decision before responding.

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"It would not be appropriate for me to comment without both reviewing the decision and also seeking advice," she told reporters after her new cabinet was sworn in.

In December, Allan announced a bill to allow smaller parties and independents to set up their own nominated entities and cap transfers from such funds at $500,000 for all parties and $50,000 for independent candidates over each election cycle.

However, the reforms were quietly dumped before the legislation passed both houses of state parliament in March.

South Australia, NSW and Queensland have followed Victoria in implementing caps on political donations.

There remains no cap on political donations or spending at the federal level.

Under reforms passed in 2025, the amount an individual can donate to a party's branch will be capped at $50,000 in a calendar year and election spending limited to $90 million for political parties nationwide.

The federal political donation law changes are not slated to take effect until the start of 2027.

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Popular online streamer and "looksmaxxer" Clavicular has been hospitalised following a suspected drug overdose in Miami.

Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Eric Peters, was filmed rubbing his eyes and holding his hands behind his head during a livestream from a Miami nightclub.

The 20-year-old is seen with fellow 'looksmaxxer' Androgenic, who is Australian.

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Androgenic is heard asking "how f___ed up are you?" before repeatedly asking if he wants an "addy", a slang term for the prescription medication Adderall.

Clavicular doesn't answer before the livestream abruptly cuts off.

Also known online as Clav, Clavicular is the figurehead of the online looksmaxxing movement, which encourages young men to maximise their physical appearance through bizarre and controversial means including smashing facial bones with a hammer and taking drugs.

His hospitalisation was first reported by TMZ, which obtained audio of the emergency services callout, and was confirmed by CBS News.

It comes just days after Clavicular abruptly ended an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Adam Hegarty.

Clavicular became visibly enraged by Hegarty's line of questioning after he asked about looksmaxxing's origins in the incel community and his associations with controversial figures like Andrew Tate, who is currently facing charges of rape and human trafficking.

60 Minutes Australia airs on Channel Nine, which is owned by Nine, the publisher of this website.

Last month Peters was arrested in Florida on a battery charge related to a fight earlier this year between his girlfriend and another influencer.

The battery arrest was Peters' second arrest in two months.

In February, a few days after the livestreamed fight involving his girlfriend, Peters was arrested by police in Scottsdale, Arizona, for allegedly entering a bar with a fake ID. State prosecutors declined to charge him.

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