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Latest news and comment on the Australian state of Victoria
  • WA senator Linda Reynolds (pictured centre)

    Linda Reynolds defends actions following Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape - as it happened

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  • Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto and Moira Deeming

    Moira Deeming should testify to ‘hurt feelings’ caused by Victorian Liberal leader in defamation trial, lawyer says

  • Victoria’s environment watchdog is assessing ‘any potential risks associated with recovered fines’

    The dirt files
    Victoria investigates waste facilities over cheap landscaping soil after asbestos found in NSW

  • The average CBD vacancy rate across Australia is 14.6%, prompting governments to talk of converting offices to residential homes as a way of breathing new life into city centres.

    Australian employers want staff in the office - but for many workers home is where the heart is

  • Bruce Lehrmann and Steven Whybrow leave the ACT supreme court in Canberra in October 2022

    Australia news live
    Senator reveals why text messages with barrister deleted – as it happened

  • Homeowner’s fake plastic grass wears out its welcome with council in Melbourne’s west

  • Victorian government rejects expert advice to forcibly merge hospital services

  • ‘She looked lifeless’: teen tells court father used axe to kill Nelomie Perera in Melbourne home

  • Liana Buchanan is the Victorian commissioner for children and young people

    Failure to learn from ‘African gangs’ furore puts community at risk, Victoria’s children’s commissioner says

    Amid claims of a growing crime wave, Liana Buchanan says the government must work harder to identify the causes of offending
  • Lawyer Steven Whybrow and former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehmann leave the federal court in Sydney last December.

    Australia news live
    Court hears of messages between barrister and senator – as it happened

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  • Asyai Luk arrives at the County Court of Victoria in Melbourne.

    Melbourne learner driver fined $600 after unintentionally driving off as sister clung to door in fatal accident

    Asyai Luk fined without conviction after judge found she was unaware her sibling was at car door before she accelerated forward
  • Matilda Boseley explains how commercial-scale cooling can cause deadly outbreaks of legionnaires' disease

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    How office buildings, factories and shopping centres can cause legionnaires' outbreaks – video

  • A magnitude 4.1 earthquake hit Woods Point, east of Melbourne, and was felt by Victorians more than 100km away

    Victoria earthquake: 4.1 magnitude tremor strikes east of Melbourne

  • Lual Akech

    A father’s quest for answers after police botched investigation into son’s death

  • Ollie and Imogen leaning against a wall

    Family violence and childhoods lost: census shows ‘horrifying’ plight of homeless youths in Melbourne

  • Full Story
    How a botched murder investigation left two families broken – Full Story podcast

  • Higgins’ communications with fundraising page subpoenaed by Reynolds’ legal team – as it happened

  • The county court building in Melbourne

    Flawed Aguer Akech investigation shows why Victoria’s blanket suppression law is not fit for purpose

    Well-meaning law designed to protect children prevents a basic function of investigative journalism – holding people to account
  • Artwork from a screengrab of CCTV footage from NSW police and AAP image of the scene

    A botched murder investigation left a family broken and a 15-year-old boy in jail for a year

    Police used flawed identification evidence against a suspect in the 2019 stabbing of a Melbourne teenager but deny the investigation was ‘improperly conducted’
  • Liberal senator Linda Reynolds

    Australia news live
    Senator gives evidence at defamation trial – as it happened

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