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'Not a stunt': recruitment plan targets overseas police

Addressing rising crime rates will be a key battleground during the Victorian election campaign as the opposition proposes a police recruitment drive.

AAP · Apr 12

Harris, O'Neill lead Aussie county championship charge

Marcus Harris has opened another campaign in England with a fine hundred for Lancashire as Australian players thrived in the county championship.

AAP · Apr 10

Data reveals key to fixing housing affordability crisis

Two major cities are becoming more unaffordable faster than other capitals, as they build fewer homes relative to population growth than Sydney and Melbourne.

AAP · Apr 9

‘We’re the experts in our own lives’: Victoria’s First Nations treaty body is holding its first elections

Gellung Warl candidates, Lidia Thorpe’s son among them, are hoping to bring their lived experience to ‘a new era’ of politics in the state

The Guardian - AU · Apr 4

Victoria police arrest two people as part of Dezi Freeman investigation

Man and woman released pending further enquiries after arrests at separate properties in state’s north-east on Saturday morning

The Guardian - AU · Apr 4

Boats, trucks in plot to flood the country with cocaine

When a commercial trawler sank off Victoria with four crew members needing rescuing, police became suspicious about an alleged drug trafficking operation.

AAP · Apr 3

Cop killer not the first fugitive drawn to 'wild west'

A century before double murderer Dezi Freeman set foot in the isolated Upper Murray, another fugitive killer also sparked a statewide manhunt.

AAP · Apr 3

Housing construction costs are already rising, increasing risks of builders going bust

For Australia’s building industry, higher fuel costs since the start of the Middle East war have been just the start of the pain.

The Conversation · Apr 1

‘It’s really polarised the population’: amid a police search for Dezi Freeman’s helpers, some sympathy towards the double-murderer remains

Police say anyone who helped the 56-year-old fugitive, who allegedly killed two police officers, ‘will be held to account’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 1

‘Are we frustrated? Yes. Surprised? No’: how Victorian Liberal moderates’ plan to oust Moira Deeming went horribly wrong

Jess Wilson tried to create a united front – and it worked for a minute. But the Victorian Liberals just couldn’t help themselves

The Guardian - AU · Mar 31