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'Heroic' boy dies after trying to save siblings in fire

A third child has died after trying in vain to protect his two young siblings in a shed fire, while his six-year-old sister remains in a critical condition.

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National road-user charges are needed – and most people are open to it, our research shows

The High Court ruled last week that Victoria’s road-user charge for electric vehicle (EV) drivers is unconstitutional. Because the court decided it’s an excise, only the Commonwealth can now impose such a tax.

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Will drivers who paid Victoria's electric vehicle tax be able to get their money back?

Electric vehicle owners in Victoria couldn’t be blamed for wondering if they might get their money back after the High Court found the state’s zero and low-emission vehicle road-user charge to be unconstitutional.

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Victorian MP Will Fowles arrested and released without charge by sex crime squad detectives

Labor MP who quit the party room in August strenuously denies the assault allegation

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Victorian premier Jacinta Allan accuses News Corp of using ‘sexualised imagery’ in cartoon

Allan says she doesn’t recall seeing a male politician being drawn in such a way

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'Premier's new clothes' cartoon riles Jacinta Allan

Award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight is fending off criticism after he depicted Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan partially naked in a nod to a famous folktale.

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Thomas Mayo’s broken Voice — and heart

Leading Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo has vowed to keep fighting for the ‘unfinished business’ of Indigenous recognition after the defeat of the Voice to Parliament, and a wintry chill will sweep across southern NSW and Victoria, the SA coast and all Tasmania this week as Queensland and northern NSW swelter…

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Childcare is like a game of Tetris for this teacher and mother of two in regional Australia

The region where Prue lives in Victoria desperately needs workers. But it’s also a ‘childcare desert’ where there are dozens of young children for every available place

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Swimming officials ‘concerned’ by Victorian plan to rip up Commonwealth Games pools

Inquiry into event’s cancellation hears of plan to build two new 50-metre pools near Geelong only to remove them after event

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NSW drop Kurtis Patterson as Lyon returns for Shield

Kurtis Patterson has been dropped for the second time in eight months from NSW's battling Sheffield Shield side, while Nathan Lyon will return against Victoria.

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The High Court decision on electric vehicles will make charging for road use very difficult

The High Court of Australia’s decision to invalidate Victoria’s electric vehicle tax has been widely noted as a major judgement in the history of federal-state taxation powers.

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Novel drugs are leading to rising overdose deaths in Victoria – drug checking services could help

Many of the harms people experience from using illegal drugs are a result of unregulated supply. Drugs may be contaminated, or completely substituted with something unexpected. They may also be of variable and unknown dosage or strength.

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Gutting Victoria’s electric vehicle tax is no progressive win

There is nothing progressive about neutering the taxation power of state governments, especially over a modest charge for affluent EV owners.

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Here's what happens to workers when coal-fired power plants close. It isn't good

When Australia’s dirtiest coal-fired power plant, Hazelwood in Victoria, closed in 2017, Australian authorities were blind to the collateral damage.

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Games chief reveals funding pledge before shock axing

Premier Jacinta Allan assured Commonwealth Games representatives Victoria would make good on funding the 2026 event that was later dumped, a top official says.

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Two children dead and two in critical condition after shed fire in Geelong

Preschoolers with severe burns airlifted to hospital in Melbourne, Ambulance Victoria says

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Teen charged with murder over fatal stabbing

A 17-year-old girl will face court over the alleged stabbing murder of an 18-year-old man at a home in Mildura in Victoria's northwest.

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‘Earn or burn’: the firebombings and underworld conflicts exposing Australia’s illicit tobacco trade

Victorian detectives play catch-up as they suspect a ‘large proportion of the tobacco industry has been infiltrated by serious and organised crime’

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Abuse in a hospital ward: Victorian survivor fears for safety of children visiting patients

Riley* alleges her father frequently sexually and physically abused her while he was in hospital. Experts say more should be done to protect visitors

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Where’s my ride? How public transport deserts entrench inequality across Melbourne’s suburbs

Massive investment in Victoria’s public infrastructure has not always been linked to bus routes, meaning some on the city fringes have no choice but to drive

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Magnitude 5.0 quake rattles Victoria, felt in Melbourne

Residents in Melbourne have felt a 5.0-magnitude earthquake that shook the southwestern Victorian coast.

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‘Police Will Be Taking Action’: Victoria Makes Doing Nazi Salute Illegal With Massive Penalties

New legislation from the Victorian government has outlawed the Nazi salute across the state, with massive penalties.

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'We are worn out and no one cares': why ambulance staff in UK and Australia are ready to quit the profession

The COVID-19 pandemic may be over, but its scars remain for those on the frontline of the health sector – not least in the ambulance services. And our research conducted separately in the UK and Australia shows things are getting worse across the globe.

The Guardian - AU

Victorian Liberals’ moderate credentials looking shaky as commitment to treaty wavers

After the voice referendum, John Pesutto appears non-committal on treaty – but it’s unclear whether an about-face will be well-received in the ‘Massachusetts of Australia’

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One child killed in collision involving three vehicles

One child has died following a three-vehicle collision in central Victoria that left four adults with injuries.

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