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Community vigil for siblings who died in shed fire

A vigil has been held to honour three young siblings killed in a shed fire in Victoria and show support for their distraught family.

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Pink, plastic and terrifyingly popular: Barbie is Australia’s preferred Halloween costume this year

The doll has topped Google Trends most searched costumes for October in NSW, Victoria and NT - but other parts of the country have different ideas

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Harris falls cheaply again as Vics hold Shield lead

Victoria hold a lead of 225 in their Sheffield Shield clash with NSW despite fringe Test opener Marcus Harris falling cheaply for the second time in the match.

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Two million dollars in illegal tobacco products seized

Tobacco shops in regional Victoria have been searched and more than two million dollars in products seized as part of a probe into the illicit tobacco trade.

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Pay deal averts six-day strike by dairy workers

A deal between a major milk processor in Victoria and the union representing milk workers over pay and conditions has halted a planned strike.

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Lyon unscathed after wet and slow return to Shield

Nathan Lyon has bowled 16 overs for NSW against Victoria on his first day back in red-ball cricket since tearing his calf in the Ashes series in England.

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'So low': advocates hit out at forced adoption compo

Victim advocates and lawyers have taken aim at the Victorian government limiting forced adoption compensation claims to $30,000 and only to mothers.

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Victorian government wants Labor’s wage theft bill to cover ‘reckless’ underpayments

Allan government says federal laws are ‘likely to render’ Victoria’s laws redundant, as Minerals Council announces multimillion-dollar campaign against bill

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Legal in one state, a crime in another: laws banning hate symbols are a mixed bag

Queensland has now joined several other states in outlawing extremist hate symbols.

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'Not credible': minister in dark on Comm Games axing

Senior Victorian government minister Harriet Shing has claimed she only learned the 2026 Commonwealth Games could be axed a week after lawyers were hired.

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Herald Sun Accused Of Running A ‘Sexualised’ Cartoon Of Jacinta Allan, But It’s Hardly Their First Rodeo

The Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has slammed her "sexualised" caricature which was published in the Herald Sun.

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'Heroic' boy dies after trying to save siblings in fire

A third child has died after trying in vain to protect his two young siblings in a shed fire, while his six-year-old sister remains in a critical condition.

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National road-user charges are needed – and most people are open to it, our research shows

The High Court ruled last week that Victoria’s road-user charge for electric vehicle (EV) drivers is unconstitutional. Because the court decided it’s an excise, only the Commonwealth can now impose such a tax.

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Will drivers who paid Victoria's electric vehicle tax be able to get their money back?

Electric vehicle owners in Victoria couldn’t be blamed for wondering if they might get their money back after the High Court found the state’s zero and low-emission vehicle road-user charge to be unconstitutional.

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Victorian MP Will Fowles arrested and released without charge by sex crime squad detectives

Labor MP who quit the party room in August strenuously denies the assault allegation

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Victorian premier Jacinta Allan accuses News Corp of using ‘sexualised imagery’ in cartoon

Allan says she doesn’t recall seeing a male politician being drawn in such a way

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'Premier's new clothes' cartoon riles Jacinta Allan

Award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight is fending off criticism after he depicted Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan partially naked in a nod to a famous folktale.

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Childcare is like a game of Tetris for this teacher and mother of two in regional Australia

The region where Prue lives in Victoria desperately needs workers. But it’s also a ‘childcare desert’ where there are dozens of young children for every available place

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Swimming officials ‘concerned’ by Victorian plan to rip up Commonwealth Games pools

Inquiry into event’s cancellation hears of plan to build two new 50-metre pools near Geelong only to remove them after event

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NSW drop Kurtis Patterson as Lyon returns for Shield

Kurtis Patterson has been dropped for the second time in eight months from NSW's battling Sheffield Shield side, while Nathan Lyon will return against Victoria.

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The High Court decision on electric vehicles will make charging for road use very difficult

The High Court of Australia’s decision to invalidate Victoria’s electric vehicle tax has been widely noted as a major judgement in the history of federal-state taxation powers.

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Novel drugs are leading to rising overdose deaths in Victoria – drug checking services could help

Many of the harms people experience from using illegal drugs are a result of unregulated supply. Drugs may be contaminated, or completely substituted with something unexpected. They may also be of variable and unknown dosage or strength.

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Here's what happens to workers when coal-fired power plants close. It isn't good

When Australia’s dirtiest coal-fired power plant, Hazelwood in Victoria, closed in 2017, Australian authorities were blind to the collateral damage.

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Games chief reveals funding pledge before shock axing

Premier Jacinta Allan assured Commonwealth Games representatives Victoria would make good on funding the 2026 event that was later dumped, a top official says.

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Two children dead and two in critical condition after shed fire in Geelong

Preschoolers with severe burns airlifted to hospital in Melbourne, Ambulance Victoria says

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