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Melbourne Airport rail's long, slow take-off

The stalemate in the Melbourne Airport rail project has been broken, with the airport agreeing to compromise and build its new train station above ground.

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Premier to pocket $500,000 as MPs handed pay bump

Victorian MPs have been awarded a 3.5 per cent salary bump, pushing Premier Jacinta Allan's annual pay package close to half a million dollars.

AAP

Why are some Victorian hospitals saying they’re freezing recruitment and looking for ways to cut costs?

Staff in several hospitals have been told of reduced spending, but Jacinta Allan says budgets aren’t finalised

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Victoria will begin pill testing this summer. Evidence shows it reduces harm (and won’t increase drug use)

This week Victorian premier Jacinta Allan announced the state will trial a drug checking service beginning this summer festival season, describing it as a “simple and commonsense way to save lives”.

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Victoria Will Finally Trial Pill Testing This Summer: Everything We Know So Far

Victoria will begin trials for pill testing in the summer, with Premier Jacinta Allan declaring it a "common sense way to save lives."

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Victoria’s pill testing service to become permanent after 18-month trial

‘We’re doing this because all the evidence says it works,’ premier Jacinta Allan says

The Guardian - AU

Police investigate possible drug link after four people found dead in Melbourne home

Cause of death of two men, a woman and a boy in Broadmeadows yet to be determined, police say

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Ecstasy and agony as pill testing gets another backer

Victoria has become the third Australian jurisdiction to legalise pill testing following a spate of drug overdoses and deaths at music festivals.

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Pill testing trial to launch in Victoria

Victoria's premier has announced a pill testing trial will take place in the state in a step away from her predecessor Daniel Andrews' stance on the issue.

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Victoria to trial pill testing as a ‘commonsense way to save lives’, Jacinta Allan says

Premier announces state will trial pill testing during summer festival season, saying evidence shows it ‘works’

The Guardian - AU

Premier seeks ‘innovative ideas’ for 20,000 homes near Melbourne’s CBD as seven skyscrapers approved for Box Hill

Jacinta Allan turns to private sector for help transforming 13.5-hectare North Melbourne site into new housing precinct

The Guardian - AU

‘Unhelpful’: Experts criticise Labor’s radioactive memes

In the wake of the Coalition’s nuclear energy policy announcement, the Labor Party has become obsessed with Simpsons memes. But experts say it’s unhelpful.

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Trades Hall vandals slammed for 'performative stunt'

Victoria's Trades Hall has been vandalised with a group seen spray-painting anti-police and pro-Palestine slogans on the building's walls.

AAP

‘We failed to keep these children safe’: Victorian government to apologise for sexual abuse at public schools

Premier Jacinta Allan acknowledges the state’s education department failed to listen when children spoke out

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'Nightmare scenario': states slam Dutton's nuclear plan

State leaders have slapped down coalition plans to build seven nuclear power plants across the nation.

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'Bittersweet': truth-telling for abuse in state schools

A formal apology will be made to victims of sexual abuse in state-run schools in Victoria after the government conceded it failed to protect them.

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Victoria to raise age of criminal responsibility to 12 with no exceptions

Premier Jacinta Allan says bill to raise age from 10 allows police to issue warnings to children while cracking down on repeat offenders

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'Belong in school': force fears as kid arrest ban looms

Police will no longer be able to arrest children under the age of 12, with Premier Jacinta Allan declaring 10 and 11-year-olds don't belong injail.

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Yimbies welcome Labor’s plan for more housing in Melbourne and Geelong but question priorities

Strategy could deliver 2.5m new homes – and Jacinta Allan doesn’t rule out forcing councils to hit targets

AAP

Targets set as Victoria eyes millions of extra homes

The Victorian government has identified where it wants 2.5 million homes to be built, with Geelong, Melbourne's CBD and outer suburbs to do the heavy-lifting.

The Guardian - AU

Victoria’s premier unveils new housing targets for construction of 2.5m new homes by 2051

Jacinta Allan reveals Geelong will be set highest target for new homes, with City of Melbourne and Melton second and third

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Police Arrest Teenage Boy Who Circulated AI-Generated Nude Images Of 50 High School Girls

A teenager has been arrested after fake nude images of more than 50 girls from one private school in Australia were circulated online.

The Independent UK

Australian teenager arrested after explicit AI photos of 50 schoolgirls appear online

Police say pictures were lifted from girls’ social media handles and doctored using AI

The Guardian - AU

Bacchus Marsh Grammar: Victorian premier blasts ‘disgraceful’ conduct after AI fake nude photo allegations

Jacinta Allan says no place for ‘misogynistic conduct’ as police investigate allegations fake nude images of students circulated online

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Costello pushes forward

Incredible footage has shown Nine chairman and former federal treasurer Peter Costello appearing to knock a journalist to the ground at Canberra Airport, and the Australian Border Force has apologised to its staff for failing to prevent workplace sexual discrimination and harassment.

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