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Many urban waterways were once waste dumps. Restoration efforts have made great strides – but there's more to do to bring nature back

In the 19th century, many of Australia’s urban creeks and rivers were in poor shape. Melbourne’s major river, the Maribyrnong, was full of waste from abattoirs, tanneries and factories.

The Conversation

Search for girl, 10, missing for more than a week

A ten-year-old girl missing for more than a week was last seen in the NSW-Victoria border area and police have concerns for her welfare.

The New Daily

Victoria crime surge as offences by youths spike

Youth crime continues to rise across Victoria, with burglaries committed by children aged 10 to 14 almost doubling in the past year.

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Metrolink boss says sorry after 'catastrophic' incident causes days of disruption

Staff are working 'flat out' to get it fixed

Manchester Evening News

Almost every Victorian Indigenous prisoner has enrolled to vote for body negotiating treaty

First Peoples’ Assembly will begin negotiations with Andrews government later this year

The Guardian - AU

‘A community like this is interlinked’: how road deaths ripple through Australia’s small towns

A quadruple fatality near Hamilton and the Hunter Valley bus crash have highlighted the trauma of road deaths on close-knit communities

The Guardian - AU

Big battery opens at retired coal-fired power site

A battery system able to store an hour of power from 30,000 solar homes has opened at a former Victorian coal-fired power station site in an Australian first.

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The crisis in our universities

We are falling further behind Australia in terms of everything, especially the recruitment of high-quality academic staff and research funding, argues Ananish Chaudhuri

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Calls for justice after damning mental health report

A special report has found mistreated mental health patients in Victoria should be given an apology and compensation as part of calls for restorative justice.

The New Daily

New wind farm could power 71,000 ACT homes a year

The ACT awarded the contract for the Victorian wind farm to be built.

The Canberra Times

Calls for restorative justice after ‘dehumanising’ incidents in Victoria’s mental health care system

‘I chewed my way through the restraints in front of two security guards who were laughing at me’, one woman says

The Guardian - AU

Travel chaos for Soccer Aid and festival fans as major transport mode shuts until MONDAY

Transport for Greater Manchester has announced that the Bury tram line will remain suspended for the rest of the day due to damage to the overhead line at Victoria

Daily Mirror

Parklife and Soccer Aid travel chaos as Metrolink line set to remain shut until tomorrow

Damage to the overhead line at Victoria has caused major disruption for Soccer Aid and Parklife ticket holders

Manchester Evening News

Metrolink racing to restore full service before thousands leave Parklife as overhead line damage causes chaos

The damage at Victoria station has caused major disruption

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‘Decades of neglect’: calls for social housing quota on new Victorian developments as homelessness rises

Proposal from the Council to Homeless Persons comes as analysis shows huge increases in homelessness levels in some regions, with one rising 465%

The New Daily

Easy to use at-home defibrillator being trialled by Ambulance Victoria

Mini defibrillator targets sudden cardiac arrest – which has significantly increased in Australia over the past 10 years.

Newsroom.co.nz

The Week in Detail: Bilingual signs, starving universities, and vulnerable men

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

The Guardian - AU

Farewell Brett Sutton, the silver fox chief health officer Victorians couldn’t keep their eyes off

Like a superhero in an open-necked shirt and a vaguely sexy beard, he emerged during the Covid crisis to keep us safe. And now he’s gone!

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‘They don’t get country footy’: the regional Victorian clubs saying no to the AFL

Concerns over salary caps and a player points system are spreading – and one community football league has decided to de-affiliate

Evening Standard

OPINION - Westminster is alight with intrigue over the sale of the Telegraph and Spectator

If you don’t vote Tory, it is unlikely you will care about the somewhat anxious mood within the SW1 offices of the famous Spectator magazine, once edited by Boris Johnson. Or understand the sense of hopeful uncertainty buzzing around the offices of the “Torygraph” newspaper in Victoria. But to many…

The Guardian - AU

‘It nearly crushed me’: Brett Sutton resigns as Victoria’s chief health officer

Sutton says the pressure of the public role through the worst of the pandemic took a toll on his family

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Donald Trump faces possibility of jail; Julian Assange loses appeal; and TV shows for Succession withdrawal

Latest charges could prove to be the most significant legal peril yet for former president

The New Daily

Four Finks bikies arrested after series of violent incidents on Vic-NSW border

Four people believed to have links to the Finks outlaw motorcycle gang have been arrested after incidents on the NSW-Victoria border.

The New Daily

Taxpayers slugged $671m in consultancy costs: Data

Scandal-hit consultancy PwC and other firms have reaped more than $670 million from Victorian taxpayers over the last half decade, new data shows.

The New Daily

Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton resigns

Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has resigned after four years and will take up a new role as director of health and biosecurity at CSIRO.

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