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Mental health insiders issue warning over Victoria’s ‘vague’ new chemical restraint laws

Psychiatrists say workforce gaps and tight implementation timeframe mean health system may not be ready for reforms to take effect Friday

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Pret-a-Manger fined £800,000 after worker trapped in a walk-in freezer at Victoria coach station

Pret a Manger fined after worker was trapped in a walk-in freezer for two hours at Victoria Coach Station

Evening Standard

Hot El Niño summer brings ‘elevated’ risk of power blackouts to eastern Australia, operator warns

Australian Energy Market Operator says ‘imminent and urgent investment’ in energy is needed

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Victorian inquiry to recommend state ban on duck hunting amid union backlash

Call from government-chaired committee comes despite significant opposition from some unions and varying views within Labors

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‘Our lives are under attack’: one in two trans Australians have experienced hate, report reveals

Data from the Trans Justice Project and the Victorian Pride Lobby also shows anti-trans hatred has increased over the last three years

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Protesters interrupt ANU event – as it happened

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Veronica Nelson’s family urges Victorian government to hear ‘cries for help’ and go further with bail reforms

Exclusive: MPs urged to implement Poccum’s law, named in honour of First Nations woman who died in a cell while on remand

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EY stands by its work on Victoria’s Commonwealth Games business case

Ernst & Young partner tells inquiry it used ‘same framework’ applied to other major events such as Melbourne Grand Prix

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Does private health insurance cut public hospital waiting lists? We found it barely makes a dent

The more people take up private health insurance, the less pressure on the public hospital system, including shorter waiting lists for surgery. That’s one of the key messages we’ve been hearing from government and the private health insurance industry in recent years.

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Victorian Electoral Commission wants power to issue on-the-spot fines at polling booths

VEC will recommend introduction of the penalties for candidates and party workers after complaints increased threefold at last election

The Guardian - AU

Child detention changes described as state’s ‘darkest hours’ – as it happened

Government’s steadfast defence of new laws continues to draw harsh criticism from the opposition

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Voice referendum date to be revealed in Adelaide as South Australia emerges as swing state

Guardian Australia analysis shows yes and no campaign advertising is focused more on SA, Tasmania and WA, and less on east coast states

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Australia urgently needs a grid upgrade – but the march of new power lines faces a bush revolt

Landowners – including many who support the shift to renewable energy – fear proposed lines will devalue properties and destroy ecosystems

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Road safety experts propose levy on large SUVs in city to curb rising Victorian road deaths

Large SUVs reported to increase the risk of serious injury to other road users by a third more than medium SUVs

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Victoria to halve gender pay gap in public service – and name 70% of new streets after women

In gender equality action plan, state government promises to increase women in leadership and encourage men to take parental leave

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Brickbat: Lockdowns Down Under

The government of Victoria, Australia, has agreed to pay about $5 million (about $3.2 million U.S.) to settle a lawsuit brought by residents of Melbourne public housing who were forced into a hard 14-day COVID-19 lockdown with no warning in July 2020. Some 3,000 people may be eligible for compensation.…

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New tailings dam at Ballarat goldmine will not increase risk to residents, operators say

A fourth tailings dam was approved in June, in a decision being challenged in the Victorian civil and administrative tribunal

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Murray-Darling Basin plan: states given three more years to finish water projects as extra buybacks on table

Tanya Plibersek warns Victoria as state holds out on signing deal while move to lift embargo on federal water purchases likely to enrage farmers

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The Conversation

Murray-Darling Basin Plan to be extended under a new agreement, without Victoria – but an uphill battle lies ahead

Federal Minister for Water Tanya Plibersek today announced a new agreement to restore Australia’s largest and most important river basin. It comes just months before the original Murray-Darling Basin Plan was to be completed.

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Why do we make violent art – and what does it say about the artist?

The sensationalised media coverage of the recent suspected mushroom poisonings in regional Victoria expanded last week, to include children’s scribblings on a wall.

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Daniel Andrews refuses to name those behind flawed Commonwealth Games business case

Victorian premier says he is not suggesting ‘people didn’t do their best’ amid criticism that Games bid should never have gone ahead

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AGL agrees to keep Victoria’s Loy Yang A power station available until mid-2035

Deal with Victorian government includes $50m to support ‘orderly retirement’ of coal-fired plant to provide certainty to workers, the community and industry

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LNP takes lead in Queensland Resolve poll, but Labor still far ahead in Victoria

The Queensland state election will be held in October 2024. A Resolve poll for The Brisbane Times, conducted from May to August with a sample of 947, gave the Liberal National Party 38% of the primary vote (up five since January to April), Labor 32% (down three), the Greens 11%…

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Victorian recycling company found to have systematically underpaid refugees and asylum seekers

Company formerly known as Polytrade fined more than $375,000 in the federal court

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Premier defends Games compensation; Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney – as it happened

Indigenous voice central to Conservative Political Action Network Conference and final day of ALP conference

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