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Real-time spending tracker plan for growing state debt

Victoria's opposition is spruiking a financial integrity plan featuring an online public spending tracker and intergenerational report to tackle state debt.

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Melbourne woman’s death after foraged mushroom dinner prompts coroner’s warning

Loreta Maria Del Rossi died in May, a week after eating mushrooms foraged from her garden in Bayswater

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Power transmission line riles landholders in its path

The preferred path of high-voltage transmission through Victoria's central northwest riles up landowners as the rollout agency defends its consultations.

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No-fault evictions banned and break-lease fees capped under sweeping reforms in Victoria

Jacinta Allan to announce additional measures designed to give people security of housing and bring ‘respect’ to rental market

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'Radical transparency' to restore trust lost post-COVID

Victoria's former health chief says organisations like a future Centre for Disease Control would go a long way to rebuilding trust in pandemic responses.

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Women fleeing abuse need more income support: coroner

A Victorian coroner has made recommendations to state and federal governments after a woman was killed by a violent partner she was trying to flee.

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Shock and grief as boy, 11, dies and four children injured after car crashes through Melbourne school fence

Victorian premier says ‘dark shadow’ has been cast over city after collision at Auburn South primary school in Hawthorn East

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Sexual assault victims to be spared repeated grilling by lawyers under new Victorian reforms

Labor says bill will ban cross-examinations of complainants until cases go to trial

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Tobacco licensing laws smoulder as parties fire up

The Victorian government has denied dragging its feet on legislation to tackle tit-for-tat tobacco firebombings despite blocking a licensing scheme bill.

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Plea for action over death of six kids in protection

Six children connected to Victoria's child protection system have died in the last three months, sparking a plea for more action to protect vulnerable kids.

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Stan Grant takes shots at ‘political elites’ in US – as it happened

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Elections for Victoria’s upper house could be overhauled under proposals to stamp out ‘preference whispering’

Labor-led inquiry considering six possible options, including adopting Senate system and changing quotas

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Dingoes are not mating with dogs – but that could soon change if the culling continues

The dingo was completely isolated from other canines on the Australian mainland for more than 5,000 years, until domestic dogs arrived on the scene. Subsequent concerns about livestock loss formed the basis of Australia’s “wild dog” (dingo) pest control programs, which continue today. Stretching 5,614km across Australia, the “dingo fence”…

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Tax reform may be shunned in state economic growth plan

The Victorian government has been warned businesses will flee interstate if it turns its back on loosening tax settings in an upcoming economic growth plan.

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Victorian renters promised a fairer dispute service

Renters are the latest group to be addressed in a week of housing announcements from the Victorian government, but the Greens say the policy is "repackaged".

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Millennials have become an electoral force. Jacinta Allan is pinning her political hopes on solving their housing woes

Victorian premier says it is ‘deeply unfair’ that home ownership is out of reach for many of the state’s young people

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Junction Oval stands tall to honour cricket great Warne

Junction Oval, where Australian cricketing great Shane Warne started his senior career, now has a grandstand renamed in his honour.

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Morning Mail: Jacinta Allan’s abortion warning, Tucker Carlson’s rant, Labor narrows gap in Queensland

Victorian premier warns of threat conservative forces pose to reproductive rights; has Steven Miles left his surge too late to hold on to office?

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Australians must keep up the fight for abortion rights, Jacinta Allan warns

Exclusive: Conservative forces pose ‘genuine threats to the protections women have fought for and won’, Victoria’s premier says

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Premier plans to make Victoria the ‘townhouse capital’ of Australia in bid to help millennials own homes

Government to consider allowing property owners to subdivide or build two homes on one plot without a permit

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No compo for owners burned by scrapped housing watchdog

Homeowners who suffered severe financial distress after the now defunct Victorian regulator let dodgy builders off the hook, won't be compensated.

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Energy complaints surge as cost of living bites

Sustained energy price increases have fuelled complaints to Victoria's energy and water ombudsman, as bills continue to hit household budgets hard.

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Unemployment’s up, house prices are stagnating. But is the Victorian economy doing as badly as it seems?

The early 1990s in Victoria were tough. The economy was contracting severely, the population was shrinking, employment was collapsing and the unemployment rate skyrocketed to the highest in the land.

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No surgical abortion providers in seven out of 10 Victorian local government areas, report finds

‘Service deserts’ affect those in high-disadvantage regional districts most, Women’s Health Victoria study says

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Abortion access still a lottery for the disadvantaged

When it comes to abortion access, Victorians face a 'postcode lottery' with those in disadvantaged and regional areas confronting barriers to the service.

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