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Patients languishing in emergency departments

Victorians are being left to languish in emergency department waiting rooms as hospitals struggle to keep up with demand.

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Which Australian states and territories perform best on gender representation in parliament? We crunched the numbers

Abortion became a key issue at the recent Queensland election, despite its decriminalisation in 2018.

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Can't get no satisfaction, but police say they try

Community confidence and satisfaction with Victoria Police is falling, but the force has blamed the slide on a change to data collection.

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Risk of election failure now real, commission warns

State elections are at risk of failure over concerns about timelines and the growing number of voters, the Victorian Electoral Commission has warned.

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Health service to pay 'groundbreaking' $316k penalty

A junior doctor's unpaid overtime has cost a Victorian health service more than $300,000 in court penalties.

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State repeatedly failed girl, 12, before murder charge

A troubled 12-year-old girl's treatment before she was charged over a deadly Melbourne stabbing has been slammed by Victoria's children commissioner.

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AusNet wants customers to pay for transition from gas

An energy provider has called on the regulator to approve a plan to make Victorian gas customers pay more to make up for those who have gone electric.

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Victoria to cut more than 130 bushfire forest service jobs – As it happened

All the day’s news as it unfolded

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Victoria Is The First Australian State To Legalise Pill Testing & It’s About Damn Time

“There’s plenty of evidence that pill testing saves lives.”

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Unjustified, racist and harmful: An expert review damns Dictator Dan’s lockdowns

An independent expert report into government response to COVID-19 has forensically compiled evidence that the Andrews government’s lockdowns were unjustified.

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Case closed: The ‘Dictator Dan’ label was justified

An independent expert report into government response to COVID-19 has forensically compiled evidence that the Andrews government’s lockdowns were unjustified.

Crikey

Drivers to escape punishment over medical cannabis under interim Victorian proposal

Labor considering expert report’s call for judges to have discretion to not cancel licences of those using the drug

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Medicinal cannabis driving change gathers speed

Road rules fail Victorians taking medicinal cannabis for debilitating pain says a new report, which recommends they not be automatically penalised for driving.

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Real-time spending tracker plan for growing state debt

Victoria's opposition is spruiking a financial integrity plan featuring an online public spending tracker and intergenerational report to tackle state debt.

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Melbourne woman’s death after foraged mushroom dinner prompts coroner’s warning

Loreta Maria Del Rossi died in May, a week after eating mushrooms foraged from her garden in Bayswater

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Power transmission line riles landholders in its path

The preferred path of high-voltage transmission through Victoria's central northwest riles up landowners as the rollout agency defends its consultations.

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No-fault evictions banned and break-lease fees capped under sweeping reforms in Victoria

Jacinta Allan to announce additional measures designed to give people security of housing and bring ‘respect’ to rental market

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'Radical transparency' to restore trust lost post-COVID

Victoria's former health chief says organisations like a future Centre for Disease Control would go a long way to rebuilding trust in pandemic responses.

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Women fleeing abuse need more income support: coroner

A Victorian coroner has made recommendations to state and federal governments after a woman was killed by a violent partner she was trying to flee.

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Shock and grief as boy, 11, dies and four children injured after car crashes through Melbourne school fence

Victorian premier says ‘dark shadow’ has been cast over city after collision at Auburn South primary school in Hawthorn East

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Sexual assault victims to be spared repeated grilling by lawyers under new Victorian reforms

Labor says bill will ban cross-examinations of complainants until cases go to trial

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Tobacco licensing laws smoulder as parties fire up

The Victorian government has denied dragging its feet on legislation to tackle tit-for-tat tobacco firebombings despite blocking a licensing scheme bill.

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Plea for action over death of six kids in protection

Six children connected to Victoria's child protection system have died in the last three months, sparking a plea for more action to protect vulnerable kids.

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Stan Grant takes shots at ‘political elites’ in US – as it happened

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Elections for Victoria’s upper house could be overhauled under proposals to stamp out ‘preference whispering’

Labor-led inquiry considering six possible options, including adopting Senate system and changing quotas

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