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‘Fastest-growing fire risk’: why do lithium batteries keep exploding across Australia?

Fire and Rescue NSW responded to 272 battery-related fires last year, while Victoria and Queensland authorities say they happen almost every day

The Guardian - AU · Nov 14, 2024

Fight brews over state treaty as key talks loom

Negotiations on Australia's first treaty with Aboriginal people will begin within days as the state opposition demands the public has a say.

AAP · Nov 14, 2024

'Deserted': police begin first strikes in over 20 years

Police have walked off the job for the first time in two decades to protest the Victorian government's "disrespect" in a long-running impasse over a pay deal.

AAP · Nov 13, 2024

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Murphy, Harper help Vics end WA's one-day cup defence

Sam Harper hit an unbeaten half-century and Todd Murphy claimed four wickets as Victoria beat WA in a rain-affected one-dayer at the MCG.

AAP · Nov 13, 2024

'Should be nervous': Liberal leader revels in poll win

Despite being dogged by a defamation trial, Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto has inched ahead of Premier Jacinta Allan as preferred state leader.

AAP · Nov 13, 2024

Suspected postal vote tampering in two Melbourne council elections referred to police

Victorian Electoral Commission says high number of multiple returned votes detected in Knox and Whittlesea city councils

The Guardian - AU · Nov 13, 2024

High court rules Catholic church not liable for child abuse by priest it didn’t directly employ

Church wins case reversing 2023 decision of Victorian court that it was vicariously responsible for abuse suffered by five-year-old at hands of assistant priest

The Guardian - AU · Nov 13, 2024

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Man who tricked wife into leaving Australia to abandon her in Sudan jailed for ‘exit trafficking’

First Victoria man to be convicted for ‘exit trafficking’

The Independent UK · Nov 12, 2024

Architect delivers a big home truth on Aussie housing

An architectural labyrinth has been installed at the National Gallery of Victoria - and its footprint is the size of the average newly-built Australian house.

AAP · Nov 12, 2024

Victoria seeks to snuff out tobacco wars with nation’s ‘toughest’ cigarette sales rules and ‘fit and proper persons’ test

Retailers face strict regulation as details of new licensing scheme announced after more than 100 businesses firebombed in tobacco wars

The Guardian - AU · Nov 12, 2024

Abusive man jailed for 'discarding' wife in Sudan

The first Victorian prosecuted with commonwealth exit-trafficking has been locked up for more than four years for treating his wife "as a chattel".

AAP · Nov 12, 2024

Tough penalties under laws to tame tobacco turf war

Victoria will become the last Australian state to make businesses have a licence to sell tobacco, but the police boss says laws won't end a turf war overnight.

AAP · Nov 11, 2024

Man charged with murder after woman’s body found in Penrith hotel – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Nov 11, 2024

Details emerge on wind farm death amid law scrutiny

A dislodged blade on a turbine platform is being blamed for the death of a wind farm worker as Victoria's industrial manslaughter laws are criticised.

AAP · Nov 11, 2024

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43 Y.O. Woman Killed And 3 Y.O. Rushed To Hospital After Water Tanker Crashes Into Preschool

A water truck has crashed into a preschool at Riddells Creek in regional Victoria, killing a woman and injuring a child.

The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2024

Man crushed to death by falling fan blade at Australian wind farm

Australian Workers’ Union raises concerns over working condition

The Guardian - AU · Nov 11, 2024

Afternoon Update: Worker dies in windfarm accident; fears over possible Trump cabinet picks; and Mattel’s porn mishap

The man was crushed beneath a turbine blade while working at the Golden Plains windfarm in regional Victoria

Wallpaper · Nov 11, 2024

A monolithic house in rural Victoria celebrates 50 shades of grey

Adam Kane Architects’ monolithic house in rural Victoria, Grey House, is ‘a testament to the power of simplicity and harmony’

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The Guardian - AU · Nov 11, 2024

‘Tragically sad’: teacher’s aide dies and three-year-old boy injured in Riddells Creek kindergarten truck crash

Police investigating after truck crashes into playground in regional Victoria killing 43-year-old woman

The Guardian - AU · Nov 11, 2024

Rokewood windfarm death: man crushed by turbine blade at Victorian worksite

Company says subcontractor was killed as blade was being prepared for installation, with WorkSafe to investigate

AAP · Nov 10, 2024

Police threaten to walk off job as pay talks turn sour

Police will begin rolling strike action as they ramp up their fight for a better pay deal after negotiations with the government and Victoria Police broke down.

AAP · Nov 10, 2024

Warning as workers thrown off revamped compo scheme

The Victorian government has been accused of kicking workers off the state's revamped compensation scheme to raid it for profits.

The Guardian - AU · Nov 10, 2024

Jacinta Allan warns against ‘American-style division’ as Indigenous treaty negotiations begin in Victoria

Premier says ‘misinformation’ and ‘fake news’ should not interfere with efforts to improve society, after opposition MP suggests talks being held in ‘secret’

The Guardian - AU · Nov 9, 2024

Victorian government criticised over ‘barbaric’ use of firefighting foam to kill 30,000 farmed ducks

Exclusive: Animal advocates condemn culling method used in response to bird flu outbreak

The Guardian - AU · Nov 9, 2024

‘It’s gang-gang country’: the landholders restoring farmland to forest in the Victorian alps

Karst Kreun is planting 90,000 native trees on a Mansfield property to restore the land ‘as close as I can to what it was 200 years ago’

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