Politics
Victoria
‘A Games anywhere is better than no Games’: Victoria’s call could move it to 2027
The Commonwealth Games could be delayed one year and scaled down as multiple inquiries grapple with how Victoria’s rushed and extravagant event spun out of control.
- by Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
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Healthcare
Doctors withdraw from pharmacy trial over women’s drug safety fears
Victorian women could be given antibiotics unsafe for the first trimester of pregnancy and misdiagnosed for sexual infections under a pharmacy trial, doctors warn.
- by Broede Carmody
Opinion
Daniel Andrews
Emerging cracks prove not even Daniel Andrews is immune to the third-term curse
Privately, some ministers are seeing signs that the Victorian Labor Party might be running out of puff.
- by Annika Smethurst
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Justice
Charged with throwing a sponge: Residential care criminalising kids, data shows
One in two children in residential care in Victoria are charged with a criminal offence within two years.
- by Rachel Eddie
Hands off councils: Opposition reveals its wishlist to tackle housing crisis
Landlords would be given incentives to keep tenants in properties long term and councils rewarded for ramping up affordable housing under a Coalition plan that will underpin its negotiations with Labor over the response to Victoria’s housing crisis.
- by Broede Carmody
Police arrest 14-year-old boy over Glen Eira student abduction
Police are investigating attacks involving students at a growing number of schools in the south-east of Melbourne.
- by Ashleigh McMillan, Alex Crowe and Nicole Precel
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Public service
Almost one in 10 staff from families, housing department to be let go
The public sector union has warned Victorian child protection workers will be unable to effectively do their jobs if 400 positions are cut in mass redundancies.
- by Bianca Hall
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Forestry
Victoria moves towards winding up logging business VicForests
Victoria’s state-owned logging business is on the verge of being absorbed into other areas after the state government reclassified it and announced a review.
- by Kieran Rooney
Push to open up compensation for Aboriginal Victorians who suffer human rights abuses
The Yoorrook Justice Commission says changes to Victoria’s Charter of Human Rights are long overdue and wants to make it easier and cheaper for VCAT to handle compensation claims.
- by Kieran Rooney and Jack Latimore
‘Essential to our economy’: Melbourne’s plan to get cleaners, retail staff and baristas into city homes
The CBD’s key workers are being forced to live far from their jobs because of a growing shortfall in affordable housing. It’s a problem the council wants to fix.
- by Royce Millar and Josh Gordon
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Commonwealth Games
Consultants had just days to cost four new Commonwealth Games sports
Four sports were added to the lineup for the now-cancelled Commonwealth Games in the final weeks of work for the 2022 planning documents.
- by Rachel Eddie