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Calls for fish pond fencing after toddler drowns

A Victorian coroner has called for regulation after a toddler drowned in a backyard fish pond. (April Fonti/AAP PHOTOS)

A toddler's drowning in a backyard fish pond has promoted calls from a coroner for building authorities to regulate fencing for residential ponds.

The 23-month-old boy drowned in a fish pond in his grandmother's backyard in Victoria, in November 2022.

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