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Police expect a second catastrophic year of road deaths

A spike in pedestrian and motorcyclist deaths on Victorian roads "cannot continue", police say, as they make an urgent plea for drivers to take better care.

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Victoria investigates waste facilities over cheap landscaping soil after asbestos found in NSW

Exclusive: Victorian Environment Protection Authority launches ‘proactive program’ to investigate potential risks from recycled soil fill

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TAFE to cut staff despite enrolment boost: union

Regional Victoria's busiest TAFE is planning to cut almost a third of support staff roles, the tertiary education union says.

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Victorian government rejects expert advice to forcibly merge hospital services

Premier Jacinta Allan says reduction of 76 services to 11 ‘not in the best interests of patient care’, citing Kennett government strategy

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Agency to crack down on hospital 'office bureaucracy'

A report has declared Victoria's health system is in need of an overhaul as earlier plans to force hospitals to merge will not go ahead.

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Scalpel taken to hospital 'back office bureaucracy'

A hospital overhaul will not force mergers but "back office bureaucracy" will be targeted by a new agency after a review found the system unfit for purpose.

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Senator reveals why text messages with barrister deleted – as it happened

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Failure to learn from ‘African gangs’ furore puts community at risk, Victoria’s children’s commissioner says

Amid claims of a growing crime wave, Liana Buchanan says the government must work harder to identify the causes of offending

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Hospitals handed $1.5b lifeline, spared forced mergers

Hospitals in Victoria will not be forced to amalgamate as the state government pledges to inject $1.5 billion in funding for services.

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Building regulator staff charged with taking kickbacks

Victoria's corruption watchdog has charged two employees from the state building regulator over alleged financial gains linked to builder registrations.

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Safety alert may not have stopped fatal crash: coroner

Victoria's state coroner has released his findings after four people were killed in a mid-air collision between two training flight planes.

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Victoria rattled by 'aftershock' tremors of 2021 quake

Further tremors could follow an earthquake that rumbled parts of Victoria, which experts consider an aftershock to a record quake that struck the state in 2021.

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A father’s quest for answers after police botched investigation into son’s death

‘Are we not human?’ asks Lual Akech. He believes his son’s African background is one of the reasons Victoria police have not solved his alleged murder almost five years on

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Soft plastics, glass bins and bans on compostable liners: will Victoria’s new recycling proposal be a step forward?

In recent years, the question of what to do with our household waste has become more pressing. In 2018, China stopped accepting many types of recyclable plastic waste from Australia. Four years later, Australia’s main soft plastics recycling scheme, REDcycle, collapsed, leaving behind big stockpiles. Food scraps or non-recyclable plastics…

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Flawed Aguer Akech investigation shows why Victoria’s blanket suppression law is not fit for purpose

Well-meaning law designed to protect children prevents a basic function of investigative journalism – holding people to account

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‘We were in shock, we were numb’: the police raid that changed Melbourne’s gay scene forever

Tasty nightclub was controversially raided by Victoria police 30 years ago. How are those who were there that night marking such a dark anniversary? They’re throwing a big camp party

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A botched murder investigation left a family broken and a 15-year-old boy in jail for a year

Police used flawed identification evidence against a suspect in the 2019 stabbing of a Melbourne teenager but deny the investigation was ‘improperly conducted’

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Likely source of legionnaires’ disease outbreak identified after 78 cases and two deaths recorded in Melbourne

Victoria’s chief health officer says a cooling tower in Laverton North is the probable source of illness

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Mid-term blues: Vic poll shows Labor losing ground

A poll indicates Labor is increasingly on the nose with Victorian voters under Jacinta Allan's leadership, just over two years out from the next state election.

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Watchdogs eye engineered stone suppliers amid bans

Stone suppliers and manufacturers are on different alert levels after some faced surprise inspections after a nationwide ban took effect.

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Melbourne surgeon failed to tell patient he invented ‘experimental’ device used to replace jaw joints, court documents claim

Dr George Dimitroulis, who is being sued in a Victorian court by a former patient, denies any injuries were caused by negligence or the prosthesis

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Second Legionnaires' patient dies, outbreak slows

A second person with Legionnaires' disease has died in Victoria, while the number of new cases appears to be decreasing

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How a police raid lawsuit turned tide for gay Victoria

Victims of a heavy-handed police raid on a Melbourne nightclub 30 years ago reflect on how a court battle ushered change for Victoria's LGBTQI community.

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Community battery for Bondi, wind farm for regional Vic

Bondi residents can now access solar power from a community battery, while a wind farm that will supply power for 200,000 Victorian homes has been approved.

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Melbourne is the only Australian capital to see a drop in house prices. What’s going on?

The Victorian city seems to be on a different trajectory to others – what might that mean for housing affordability?

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