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Lane closed: Road to recovery bound by red tape

With the two-year anniversary approaching for some of Victoria's worst floods on record, many councils are still begging for recovery funding.

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'Tired trope': most voters open to lower home prices

Australia's housing affordability mess has most voters in favour of lower prices and backing tax reform and other policy interventions to ease pressures.

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Women ditching part-time as COVID redefines flexibility

Part-time work is fading as the go-to way of meeting flexibility needs and this could open up opportunities to narrow gender-based economic disadvantage.

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Hospital accepts failings after pleas for help ignored

An anguished mother has sobbed in court as she detailed being "ignored" by hospital staff as she pleaded for them to help her sick daughter before she died.

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Ex-Lib ordered to fly in for Pesutto's defamation trial

A former Victorian Liberal MP-turned-educator in the UK must return to Australia to give evidence in a defamation trial brought against his former boss.

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$26b mega road gets underway in boring milestone

Tunnelling on Melbourne's $26.1 billion North East Link has begun, with the head of the project insisting it is on track to be delivered on time and budget.

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'Sheer luck' avoided deaths in underworld arson attacks

Police say a stroke of "sheer luck" is all that stopped lives being lost after a Melbourne business was set on fire.

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Ex-soap star jailed then bailed for assault on woman

A former Australian soap star is on bail to appeal his jail sentence over violent assaults on a woman including repeatedly kicking and stomping on her.

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Advocate's alleged abuser to fight charges at trial

The alleged abuser of victim advocate Manny Waks has been committed to stand trial after pleading not guilty to historical child sexual offences.

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Don't pull the plug on hire e-scooters, premier says

Premier Jacinta Allan has made a thinly veiled threat to the City of Melbourne council after it voted to shut down e-scooter operators in a matter of weeks.

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Melbourne council runs e-scooter trial off the footpath

The City of Melbourne will walk away from e-scooter hire contracts, leaving the hire companies with 30 days to shut the trial down.

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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.

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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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Arson charge over floating nightclub blaze

An arson charge has been laid more than 18 months after a devastating blaze at a floating nightclub that previously sparked a record number of noise complaints.

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Advocates, refugees hope for new page in immigration

Asylum-seekers are banking on a cabinet reshuffle helping their legal fight, as refugee and migrant advocates praise the outgoing immigration minister.

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Opening eyes on homeless plight in urban scooter ride

A scooter ride through some of Melbourne's inner-city landmarks aims to open the eyes of riders to the hidden side of homelessness and the solutions to it.

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Teen accused of fatal crash checked by police in bed

A 17-year-old boy has faced court accused of being the driver of a stolen Jeep that crashed at high speed into another car and killed a 28-year-old man.

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Fatal stolen car crash lights fuse on teen crime plague

The Victorian government has taken the children's court to task over its handling of repeat youth offenders following a deadly crash in Melbourne's east.

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Average Australian house price hits almost $800,000

Soaring house prices might please home owners but for those trying to enter the market the odds are stacked against them as chronic housing shortages persist.

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Pharmacy lobby blasts plan for chemists to sell vapes

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has slammed a new plan that would allow smokers to buy vapes at pharmacies without the need for a doctor's prescription.

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Calls for change after 'shocking' hospital discharge

An Indigenous woman's discharge from hospital after an alleged violent assault should prompt change in the health-care system, Victoria's health minister says.

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Pizza-eating killer could walk from jail in nine years

Robert Rickerby will spend up to 15-and-a-half years behind bars after admitting to killing his partner in their Melbourne home.

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Ambulance service demands reach unprecedented levels

Victoria's ambulance service demands have surpassed the height of the pandemic, with one family sharing a horror experience after their child stopped breathing.

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Families told missing loved ones had 'gone walkabout'

Many Indigenous women and children are not taken seriously or criminalised when they go missing and fall victim to crime, stoking mistrust in police.

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