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The Latest Breaking News from Victoria

Victoria’s gas ban for new homes expected to reap significant emissions cuts

Exclusive: Analysis shows new all-electric homes would generate 16% lower emissions than new gas-electric homes

The Guardian - AU

Planes, trains and the Skybus: experts debate whether Melbourne urgently needs an airport rail line

The recent halting of the project and reports it could be stalled for years have cast doubt on whether it will ever take off

The Guardian - AU

Melbourne crash: Daniel Andrews says no additional safety measures possible for CBD mall

Police insist city is ‘tremendously safe’ following Friday night crash at same Bourke Street mall where six people were killed in 2017

The Guardian - AU

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Australia’s south-east hit by damaging wind, storms and hail

Active front crosses SA, Victoria and NSW, bringing strong winds and cooler temperatures

The Guardian - AU

Police arrest boy, 14, over alleged near fatal abduction of Melbourne school student

Victorian police flag more arrests over alleged attack on 14-year-old in Glen Huntly on Monday

The Guardian - AU

Psychiatrists warn of ‘severe consequences’ after Victoria cuts funding for hospital placements

Exclusive: Junior doctor roles in mental health at Melbourne hospital to be reduced from 17 to four next year, trainees say

The Guardian - AU

Man sprayed ‘burning’ substance in face of Victoria station shop worker

It caused a ‘burning sensation’ in the employee’s eyes and throat

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Danielle Wood to become first woman to head Productivity Commission

Labor appoints well-known Grattan Institute chief after senior Victorian treasury official Chris Barrett pulls out of recruitment process

The Guardian - AU

First Nations people should have power over child protection decisions in Victoria, truth-telling inquiry says

Yoorrook report says Indigenous children ‘can be in a pipeline to the justice system before being born’

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Covid cycling boom has ended with just one-third of Australians riding in 2023

The Guardian - AU

Atagi recommends additional Covid vaccine booster for people over 75 – as it happened

Health minister’s office confirms government has accepted expert body’s advice

The Guardian - AU

Hottest Tube lines revealed as temperatures keep going up on Underground

The Victoria line never dropped below an average of 24C last year

Evening Standard

Scientists demand end to dingo baiting after research reveals most are genetically pure

Discovery that most canids in Australia are not hybrids with wild dogs leads researchers to push to change policy and terminology

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: airports back ACCC’s legal action against Qantas; four killed in Victoria crash; and Mitch McConnell freezes again

Consumer watchdog accuses airline of false, misleading or deceptive conduct; plus soldiers hospitalised in second NT military accident

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Unions to target Labor MPs after inquiry finds duck hunting should be banned in Victoria

Electrical Trades Union boss Troy Gray says campaign to continue the activity will now expand

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Mental health insiders issue warning over Victoria’s ‘vague’ new chemical restraint laws

Psychiatrists say workforce gaps and tight implementation timeframe mean health system may not be ready for reforms to take effect Friday

Evening Standard

Pret-a-Manger fined £800,000 after worker trapped in a walk-in freezer at Victoria coach station

Pret a Manger fined after worker was trapped in a walk-in freezer for two hours at Victoria Coach Station

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Hot El Niño summer brings ‘elevated’ risk of power blackouts to eastern Australia, operator warns

Australian Energy Market Operator says ‘imminent and urgent investment’ in energy is needed

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Victorian inquiry to recommend state ban on duck hunting amid union backlash

Call from government-chaired committee comes despite significant opposition from some unions and varying views within Labors

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‘Our lives are under attack’: one in two trans Australians have experienced hate, report reveals

Data from the Trans Justice Project and the Victorian Pride Lobby also shows anti-trans hatred has increased over the last three years

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Protesters interrupt ANU event – as it happened

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Veronica Nelson’s family urges Victorian government to hear ‘cries for help’ and go further with bail reforms

Exclusive: MPs urged to implement Poccum’s law, named in honour of First Nations woman who died in a cell while on remand

The Guardian - AU

EY stands by its work on Victoria’s Commonwealth Games business case

Ernst & Young partner tells inquiry it used ‘same framework’ applied to other major events such as Melbourne Grand Prix

The Conversation

Does private health insurance cut public hospital waiting lists? We found it barely makes a dent

The more people take up private health insurance, the less pressure on the public hospital system, including shorter waiting lists for surgery. That’s one of the key messages we’ve been hearing from government and the private health insurance industry in recent years.

The Guardian - AU

Victorian Electoral Commission wants power to issue on-the-spot fines at polling booths

VEC will recommend introduction of the penalties for candidates and party workers after complaints increased threefold at last election

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