Nats candidate on sex charge found dead A Nationals candidate due in court on sexual assault allegations and running for the seat of Narracan has died, days out from the Victorian election. AAP · Nov 21, 2022
Failed flood levees in northern Victoria come after years-long delays for repairs, Nationals MP says Frantic works have been done this week to build a levee around Echuca in Victoria's north-east to protect the town from flooding, but elsewhere existing levees have failed. ABC News · Oct 21, 2022
Vic opposition pledges soil research hub Victoria's opposition says it will establish a soil research centre to strengthen the state's agriculture sector if it wins the November election. AAP · Oct 14, 2022
Regional Vic hospitals cash promise dented An $8 billion regional health pitch tied to the proposed shelving of Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop has been dented, with the Victorian coalition conceding less cash could be available. Newcastle Herald · Oct 3, 2022
Lake Tyrrell traditional owners apply for protection of sacred meeting place, Mallee tourism drawcard Traditional owners of popular Lake Tyrrell in Victoria's north west call on the federal environment department to urgently intervene and protect the area from further desecration. ABC News · Aug 2, 2022
‘They’re just better at it’: the rise of the rock star home organiser What was popularised as a lockdown trend is now a booming commercial industry. Why are so many of us still fixated on decluttering our interiors? The Guardian - AU · Jul 22, 2022
Friends set off with nothing but wheelchairs to travel hundreds of miles Carl Eaton and Peter Walsh travelled in the wheelchairs with just the clothes on their back Liverpool Echo · Jul 13, 2022
Steph Ryan resigns as deputy leader of Victorian Nationals ahead of state election After eight years in politics, Steph Ryan has announced her retirement. Her resignation, in the lead-up to the birth of her second child, means the Victorian Nationals have lost a third of its female MPs in one hit. ABC News · Jul 6, 2022
‘Woke tokenism’: Victorian MP Tim Smith to defy Liberal party support for treaty authority After weeks of prevaricating, state’s opposition expresses support for independent body to oversee treaty negotiations The Guardian - AU · Jun 21, 2022
Parks Victoria refuses to confirm if it's behind brumby carcasses found hidden in national park A Parks Victoria spokesperson confirms "planning and implementation" of its reduction plan as a brumby preservation group claims finding more than 30 carcasses in Barmah National Park. ABC News · Jun 9, 2022
Quango tango: Victorian opposition sceptical of proposed treaty authority Shadow treasurer David Davis tells Sky News host Peta Credlin ‘nothing’s ever independent, it’s always stacked’ The Guardian - AU · Jun 8, 2022
Victoria’s First Nations treaty authority could be replicated across Australia, experts say Queensland, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Tasmania also working towards treaties The Guardian - AU · Jun 7, 2022
In Daisy & Woolf, Michelle Cahill revisits a modernist classic to write a story of her own Michelle Cahill’s Daisy Woolf takes its epigraph and its inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929): “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers.” The Conversation · May 30, 2022
Vic opposition's regional funding pledge The Victorian Liberals and Nationals will commit more funding to regional infrastructure if they win government in November. AAP · May 28, 2022
The Guardian - AU · May 25, 2022 Rural News Corp paper delivers sharp rebuke to Barnaby Joyce over Nationals’ climate ‘deniers’ ‘Bible of the bush’ urges party to concede global heating is real as Darren Chester compares Joyce’s boast about retaining seats to a surgeon saying an operation succeeded when ‘the patient died’
The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2022 NHS trust fined £1.3m over deaths of two patients after staff mistakes Shrewsbury and Telford trust admits failing to provide safe care to Mohammed Ismael Zaman and Max Dingle
The Guardian - AU · May 4, 2022 Victoria’s opposition backflips on opposing state-based treaty negotiations with traditional owners Opposition leader Matthew Guy previously argued treaty negotiations should occur at national level
The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2022 Sajid Javid vows to ‘go after’ those responsible for NHS maternity scandal Health secretary says he wants people held to account for Shrewsbury and Telford hospital trust failings