The Latest Breaking News from Jacinta Allan

Victorian Coalition vows to scrap Australia’s first statewide treaty with First Peoples if it wins government

Opposition’s plan announced as state parliament’s lower house begins debate on landmark treaty bill

The Guardian - AU · Oct 14, 2025

Victoria considers sentencing changes as premier says community wants ‘consequences’ for ‘brazen behaviour’

Exclusive: Jacinta Allan’s comments come after a cabinet subcommittee met to address growing concerns about youth crime

The Guardian - AU · Oct 9, 2025

Toll roads plea no political stunt, premier insists

A state premier has denied her public plea for toll companies to give motorists a break is a political stunt, despite admitting discussions date back years.

AAP · Oct 9, 2025

Melbourne’s ‘spectacular’ Metro Tunnel stations are finally finished. Here’s what they look like and what’s next

Town Hall and State Library train stations join Anzac, Arden and Parkville as city waits for launch date of long-awaited rail line

The Guardian - AU · Oct 6, 2025

Victorian DPP confirms it will appeal Erin Patterson’s sentence on the basis it ‘is manifestly inadequate’ – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Oct 5, 2025

'Uninvestable': business lobby blasts WFH mandate

An Australian-first move to mandate working from home will make a state "uninvestable", the peak body for the nation's largest employers says.

AAP · Sep 24, 2025

Liberals off the hook for cow poo conspiracy

Liberal MPs who landed in the poo after being accused of conspiring to help dump a gift box full of cow manure to a state premier's office, are off the hook.

AAP · Sep 23, 2025

Show us the money: teachers mock 'education state' tag

Hundreds of kindergarten teachers have gone on strike, taking direct aim at a premier as she spruiks her state's education credentials overseas.

AAP · Sep 16, 2025

‘Too scared to go anywhere’: fear and anger as community reels from brutal killing of two boys in Melbourne’s west

Victoria grapples with ‘cancer of youth gang crime’ after machete murders of Dau Akueng, 15, and Chol Achiek, 12, in Cobblebank

The Guardian - AU · Sep 12, 2025

Slain boy's dad pleads for greater community protection

Mourners have gathered near the site where two boys were stabbed to death, urging for greater community efforts to stop the surge in youth crime.

AAP · Sep 9, 2025