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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

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

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

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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

‘They’re just better at it’: the rise of the rock star home organiser

The Guardian - AU

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

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.

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‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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’

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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

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

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

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