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Backflip on age laws to quell alarm over youth crime

Victoria's axing of a promise to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 has been praised by police but rebuked by Indigenous, legal and youth advocates.

AAP · Aug 12, 2024

Pressure on raise-the-age promise amid youth crime woes

Premier Jacinta Allan has left the door ajar for the Victorian government to go back on a commitment to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14.

AAP · Aug 12, 2024

Hopes gag order change will stop workplace perpetrators

Gag orders preventing workplace sexual harassment victims from speaking out about their abuse could be restricted or even banned under flagged law reforms.

AAP · Aug 12, 2024

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Too complex, too late: the guardrails acting as roadblocks to voluntary assisted dying across Australia

Doctors take aim at Victorian and South Australian gag clauses that are ‘unprecedented in healthcare’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 11, 2024

‘Mind-boggling’: Victorian outreach workers decry double standard for lifesaving overdose drug naloxone

Untrained bystanders can legally administer the opioid-reversal treatment – but frontline staff workers face a legal risk if they do not first call triple zero

The Guardian - AU · Aug 11, 2024

Youth justice moves closer as teen quizzed over crash

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is remaining tight-lipped on changes to youth justice laws after a 16-year-old was questioned over another fatal crash.

AAP · Aug 11, 2024

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.

AAP · Aug 10, 2024

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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

The Guardian - AU · Aug 8, 2024

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.

AAP · Aug 8, 2024

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

The Guardian - AU · Aug 8, 2024

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.

AAP · Aug 8, 2024

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.

AAP · Aug 8, 2024

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

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The Guardian - AU · Aug 7, 2024

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

The Guardian - AU · Aug 7, 2024

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AAP · Aug 7, 2024

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.

AAP · Aug 7, 2024

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.

AAP · Aug 7, 2024

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.

AAP · Aug 6, 2024

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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The Guardian - AU · Aug 6, 2024

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

The Conversation · Aug 5, 2024

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…

The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2024

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

The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2024

‘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

The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2024

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’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2024

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

AAP · Aug 5, 2024

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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