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'We went backwards': response to floods spark concerns

Victoria's handling of flood emergencies is being questioned as new details emerge about the toll of the 2022 natural disaster.

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Stay-in-class instruction over Palestine student strike

Victoria's education department is providing government schools with formal advice over a planned student strike for Palestine in central Melbourne.

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Man critical after groups clash in regional shooting

A man has been taken to hospital in a critical condition after being shot as two groups clashed in a regional Victorian town, leading to five arrests.

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Harley Reid keen to lift West Coast out of AFL doldrums

Highly rated Victorian teenager Harley Reid will move interstate to join West Coast after being selected with the No.1 pick at the AFL national draft.

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Eagles praise Reid's resilience ahead of AFL draft

Wooden spooners West Coast are all but certain to select prodigious Victorian midfielder Harley Reid with their top pick in the AFL draft.

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Boland, Sutherland star as Vics beat Bulls in Shield

Will Sutherland has overcome the disappointment of a costly dropped catch to inspire Victoria to a 113-run Sheffield Shield win over Queensland.

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Jewish, Islamic schools get cash to bolster security

The Victorian government will spend $8 million to help combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia across the state's Jewish and Islamic communities.

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‘Nobody cared’: Victim’s ‘betrayal’ over revelations at Victoria’s school child sexual abuse inquiry

Victim-survivor shocked by education department’s admission it moved accused paedophile teachers to other state schools

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Khawaja falls late as Victoria put clamps on Queensland

Test paceman Scott Boland snared the prized scalp of Usman Khawaja to put Victoria in the box seat against Queensland in the Sheffield Shield.

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Victorian education head apologises for ‘catastrophic failures’ in protecting public school students from abuse

Department secretary Jenny Atta tells inquiry into abuse at 24 public schools that she is ‘profoundly sorry’

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Police 'family' in shock after officer shot dead

A South Australian police officer has died and the alleged shooter is in hospital after a violent confrontation near the state's border with Victoria.

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Forestry contractor fined $79,000 for koala cruelty

A contractor has been fined for causing the pain, suffering and deaths of dozens of koalas, after bulldozing habitat on a property in south west Victoria.

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Melbourne airport rail, fast trains and road funding cuts: what the infrastructure review means for your state

Albanese government says projects in Sydney, Victoria and Queensland are among 50 being defunded, but other recommendations remain a priority

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Fire service flunks workforce, response time targets

The Victorian Country Fire Authority are failing key workforce and response time targets, data shows.

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'Stark and shameful' education disparities exposed

Victoria is failing to meet the needs of young people in care with a new report exposing poor education outcomes, racism along with other major concerns.

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Vics crawl on tricky Shield pitch against Queensland

Marcus Harris and Peter Handscomb both score fifties as Victoria crawled to 4-201 at stumps in their Sheffield Shield clash with Queensland at the MCG.

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VicForests records $60m loss as industry closure looms

Victoria's state logging corporation has recorded a net loss of $60.1 million thanks to court losses over timber harvesting and protected animals and plants.

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'Bitter blow': Geelong to Melbourne fast-rail link axed

A long-awaited federal infrastructure review has killed off plans to build a fast-rail link from Geelong to Melbourne and 11 other Victorian projects.

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Federal government to slash 50 infrastructure projects due to cost blowouts

Minister Catherine King releases independent review while suggesting Coalition engaged in ‘economic vandalism’ by announcing projects it couldn’t deliver

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Australian discovery of 120m-year-old footprints provides earliest evidence for birds in southern hemisphere

Bird tracks found in Victoria were initially thought to have come from dinosaurs but later identified as ‘transitional’ animal

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Two more people arrested in connection with Armistice Day unrest

The individuals were arrested over separate incidents at Waterloo and Victoria stations in London on Saturday.

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‘Desensitised’: calls for better education after research suggests Victorian boys less likely to stop harassment

Study of students finds marked drop from Year 7 to Year 9 in proportion of those willing to intervene

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Data casts doubt on Victoria's bold housing targets

Victoria's public housing stock has lifted by 394 since 2018 and more than two thirds of homes earmarked under a $5.3 billion program are unbuilt or incomplete.

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Crossbenchers set to sink Labor’s bid to enshrine State Electricity Commission in Victoria’s constitution

Four upper house MPs refuse to back bill that would also force revived agency to solely invest in renewables

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Doomsday survivalist caught with machine guns, weapons

A survivalist preparing for the apocalypse on a property in central Victoria has admitted storing 16 prohibited firearms including automatic machine guns.

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