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Vic toll road given $3.25b boost in federal cash top-up

The federal government will tip $3.25 billion into Victoria's new North East Link toll road, taking its contribution to the overblown project to $5 billion.

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Gas code confirms up-front connection cost

Victoria's essential services regulator has released a new code of practice for gas distributors, bringing connection costs in line with other utilities.

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Victoria Police to apologise for Stolen Generation role

The chief of Victoria Police will apologise for the force's role in the Stolen Generations as part of reforms related to the Yoorrook Justice Commission.

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Victorian treasurer threatens to consider train station for Avalon amid dispute with Melbourne Airport

Tim Pallas’ comments come after government delayed Melbourne Airport rail project by four years

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Mother on trial accused of forcing daughter to marry

A mother has faced her first day of a Victorian jury trial accused of coercing her daughter into entering a marriage with a man from Western Australia.

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Treasurer talks tough as airport rail stoush deepens

A fresh shot has been fired at Melbourne Airport by Victoria's treasurer who suggests the government could partner with a rival if it doesn't deliver projects.

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Jacinta Allan might have offered a bold vision for Victoria. This is what Labor’s budget delivered instead

The new premier had little relief from cost-of-living pressures for single people, couples without children and older Victorians

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Interest bill piling up on Victoria, state budget shows

Treasurer Tim Pallas is playing down Victoria's skyrocketing interest bill, with $9.4 billion to be ripped from state coffers annually within four years.

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Victoria state budget 2024 winners and losers: $400 for school students, home buyer fund boost and increased levies

Government to expand shared-equity scheme for home buyers but will delay long-awaited airport train

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Victorian state budget 2024: airport train delayed and sick leave for casuals scrapped in bid to rein in debt

Government to also provide $400 for each public school student as Tim Pallas hands down his 10th state budget

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Erin Patterson pleads not guilty to all charges over alleged mushroom murders

Victorian woman elects to ‘fast track’ case involving murder and attempted murder charges relating to Leongatha lunch

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Project cuts and delays but Vic debt to soar higher

Melbourne Airport Rail has failed to take off, a medical precinct been abandoned and sick pay for casual workers dumped in a Victorian budget with few winners.

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Victoria station: Safety plea from victims' families after third woman hit by bus

A woman remains critically injured after being hit by a bus outside the station on Friday

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Judge made demeaning comments about alleged rape victim

A Victorian judge has been told to undergo counselling for making "pejorative, demeaning and incongruous" comments about a rape victim.

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Shot in the arm for winter disease fight

Graduate pharmacists have joined Victoria's vaccine workforce permanently ahead of the busy winter illness season, as the number of doses administered rises.

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Man charged over speedway crash that killed 18-year-old

Police have charged a man with dangerous driving and reckless conduct over a crash at a regional Victorian motor sports club that killed an 18-year-old man.

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Victorian budget a family affair, but details scant

The Victorian budget remains cloaked in secrecy but shapes as a no-frills affair as the government tries to combat rising debt and infrastructure blowouts.

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Police family violence notices could be 'enduring'

Victoria's police commissioner has flagged changing family violence safety notices as a way to further clamp down on domestic abusers, the police minister says.

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If Jacinta Allan isn’t Daniel Andrews, her first budget should show Victorians exactly who she is

A huge infrastructure agenda helped win Andrews three elections but the priority now for the state – and new premier – is the housing crisis

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Eight years ago Australia had a wake-up call on family violence. So how did we end up here again?

There was hope for change after Victoria’s royal commission. Now the experts agree that it’s past time for ‘an abundance of words’ to be met by action

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Unchecked urban sprawl is eating our food bowl

Victoria's burgeoning population presents a number of complications for food supply unless a fragmented planning framework is overhauled, an inquiry has heard.

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Residents to continue fighting demolition of Melbourne public housing towers despite court setback

Pledge comes after Victoria’s supreme court dismisses residents’ class action against government, saying it has ‘no real prospect of success’

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Second chance for tower residents after case dismissed

A judge has dismissed class action by Melbourne public housing tower residents against the Victorian government, but will allow them to reframe their case.

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Lifting developers tax would boost Vic budget by $8.2b

Urgent cost-of-living relief could be rolled out for Victorians if the state government lifted the windfall gains tax on developers, the Greens argue.

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'Trash the brand': Comm Games chief takes on ex-premier

Australia's Commonwealth Games chief has taken a swipe at former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews over his move to stop the state hosting the 2026 event.

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