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The Latest Breaking News from Victoria

Celebrity chef Peter Russell-Clarke dies aged 89 – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese Reacts After A Synagogue Was Set Alight In Melbourne: ‘Shocking Acts’

The Prime Minister pledged federal support for Victorian authorities after an unknown man set fire to the doors of a synagogue last night.

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Aussie young gun batters his way through Sri Lanka A

Victorian Sam Elliott has sparked a collapse of 7-25 as Australia A powered their way to a 198-run victory over Sri Lanka A.

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Afternoon Update: Victorian health acknowledges family’s distress; Trump accused of using antisemitic slur; and the brooding charisma of Michael Madsen

Messages show department sent two messages two days apart advising parents to test for different sexually transmitted diseases

The Guardian - AU

Victorian Government To Make Its First Peoples’ Assembly Permanent Under New Bill

The government of Victoria is set to introduce a bill later this year that will make the First Peoples' Assembly a permanent body.

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Victoria’s First Peoples’ Assembly to be made permanent and granted decision-making powers under treaty bill

Body will be able to advise ministers on issues directly affecting Aboriginal people in the state

The Guardian - AU

Patterson jury deliberations to continue into a sixth day – as it happened

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Families' fearful wait to learn alleged abuser's moves

Parents are facing an anxious wait to find out if their kids have been exposed to a childcare worker accused of serial sexual abuse.

AAP

Federal government to fast-track childcare safety legislation as Victoria appoints Jay Weatherill to conduct snap review of sector

Jason Clare to introduce powers to expand spot checks and cut off funding for childcare operators that fail to meet safety standards, as Greens call for independent watchdog

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s first truth-telling inquiry finds British committed genocide of Indigenous people

Yoorrook Justice Commission says British colonisation of Victoria brought violence, dispossession and lasting harm to Aboriginal communities

The Independent UK

Childcare sexual abuse is mostly committed by men. Failing to recognise that puts children at risk

Australians are reeling from the news that Victorian childcare worker Joshua Dale Brown has been charged with more than 70 offences against children, including rape.

The Conversation

Flood threat ongoing for parts of NSW and Victoria as east coast weather system subsides

Heavy conditions expected to continue along parts of the east coast on Thursday

The Guardian - AU

Australia vows childcare crackdown after worker charged with sex offences

Officials pledge to toughen laws after 26-year-old childcare worker charged with abusing eight children under his care.

Al Jazeera

Supervision gaps can lead to child abuse – what can be done?

The horrific allegations of child abuse by an early childhood educator in Victoria came to light at a time when the early learning sector was already under fire for previous abuse revelations and safety breaches.

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The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: urgent review of Victoria’s childcare; ‘second surge’ of weather to hit south-east; and a sleepover in a museum

Announcement comes as second Victorian man charged with child sexual abuse crimes

The Guardian - AU

Victoria orders urgent review into childcare safety after allegations of abuse by worker

Premier says ‘short and sharp’ review will consider whether Victoria can go ‘even further and act faster’ on any federal measures

Evening Standard

'It's like a sauna': Temperatures on London's Tube hit 33C on the hottest day of the year so far

The Standard found the Victoria, Central, Northern and Elizabeth lines reached temperatures of up to 33C by lunchtime on Tuesday

The Guardian - AU

Victoria’s Indigenous people experienced ‘genocide’, truth-telling inquiry says

Yoorrook Justice Commission splits on final report but makes 100 recommendations aimed at healing and reconciliation

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Truth-telling inquiry splits on final report findings

Three of the five leaders of an Indigenous truth-telling inquiry did not endorse the key findings in one of its two final reports.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Melbourne childcare worker charged with sex offences; NSW braces for storm; and a basketball player’s own goal

Victorian premier Jacinta Allan says she is ‘sickened’ by the ‘shocking and distressing’ allegations

The Guardian - AU

The Melbourne childcare sexual abuse charges: what we know so far and what affected families should do

Joshua Brown, 26, has been charged with more than 70 offences with police also investigating allegations of offending at a second Melbourne daycare centre

The Guardian - AU

Melbourne childcare worker charged with sexual abuse offences as 1,200 children to be tested for infectious diseases

Victoria police allege Point Cook man Joshua Brown sexually assaulted infants and children in his care at a western suburbs childcare centre

The Guardian - AU

First Peoples’ Assembly set to become permanent voice to Victorian parliament with crossbench support

Exclusive: Advisory body will be renamed and granted statutory powers after Labor secures numbers to make it permanent

AAP

War of words over GST carve-up as states butt heads

Two states are going head to head over the GST carve-up after one claimed it was given an unfair shortfall to cover COVID-19 failures.

AAP

Second state set for own Indigenous voice to parliament

Another Australian state is preparing to establish a legislated Indigenous voice to parliament as part of treaty negotiations.

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