September 2024
Fire service chiefs’ email hacked to help union boss, inquiry finds
Union boss Peter Marshall asked staff at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade to gather sensitive information, a report by Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog has found.
- Gus McCubbing
December 2023
Victoria wipes Tennis Australia’s $43m COVID debt, fuels record profit
The Victorian government gave Tennis Australia a $40 million loan as it languished in the pandemic. Now worth $43 million, that debt has been forgiven.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
September 2022
Liberals throw cash at teal-targeted Victorian seats
A pattern is emerging in Victoria. Almost every time a teal candidate is announced, a Liberal spending promise follows soon afterwards.
- Gus McCubbing
August 2022
Vic independent says ‘teal wave’ could be replicated at state election
Clarke Martin believes the surge of federal independents could be repeated as he looks to win a seat in Victoria’s Liberal heartland.
- Gus McCubbing
January 2021
Bid to block virulent UK strain
States and medical experts are calling for pre-testing of all international arrivals after Australia recorded its first cases from a highly infectious mutation of the virus.
- Tom Burton
PM powerless on state border closures
Scott Morrison has conceded he has no legal powers to override state leaders closing their borders for health reasons, amid growing frustration among Victorians stranded in NSW.
- John Kehoe
December 2020
Victoria sheds 3000 volunteer fireys following CFA shake-up
Victoria's Emergency Services Minister Lisa Neville has staunchly defended changes from July that made the Country Fire Authority a volunteer-only organisation.
- Patrick Durkin
November 2020
Daniel Andrews texts reveal hotel quarantine plans
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews denies he or his chief of staff, Lissie Ratcliff, are the only ones left in a decision-making chain that led to the fatal use of private security to guard the state's quarantine hotels.
- Patrick Durkin, Hannah Wootton and Tom Burton
September 2020
Victorian government doesn't stint on legal representation
Of 45 lawyers who appeared before the Quarantine Inquiry representing witnesses, 25 were hired by the government, its agencies or ministers.
- Myriam Robin
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
Andrews' union ties in inquiry spotlight
The looming end to the hotel quarantine inquiry suggests the public may never learn the full story, but a window into Victoria's crisis cabinet emerged that is likely to be a focus when Premier Daniel Andrews is examined.
- Patrick Durkin
PM personally pressured Andrews to accept ADF troops in early July
The revelation comes as Victorian government officials continue to handball responsibility for the ill-fated decision to use private security guards for the program, instead of the ADF or police as in other states.
- Hannah Wootton
August 2020
Andrews' blame game lands at Andrew Crisp's door
The Emergency Management Commissioner signed off on a decision by Victoria's State Control Centre to use private security guards for hotel quarantine, the night before returning travellers were first detained in hotels.
- Patrick Durkin
July 2020
Andrews in sights of hotel quarantine inquiry
Premier Daniel Andrews and key ministers are facing pressure to appear before the inquiry to explain why the Australian Defence Force, used successfully elsewhere in the country, was not engaged in Victoria.
- Patrick Durkin
Infected hotspot tenants to be offered hotel quarantine
One high-rise tower will remain in hard lockdown and infected residents in six other towers will be offered hotel quarantine as Victoria battles to contain a breakout across seven public housing complexes.
- Tom Burton
Victoria's hotel security exposed by outbreak
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews admits security guards responsible for hotel quarantine engaged in "unacceptable breaches" including car pooling and sharing cigarette lighters.
- Patrick Durkin
June 2020
Governments divided over opening of the economy
The agreement to open Australia's internal borders is splintering, as Victoria Police will launch a campaign to crack down on homes and businesses suspected of breaking coronavirus restrictions.
- Andrew Tillett and Liz Main
January 2020
Hundreds more homes feared lost on South Coast
The number of missing Victorians fell from seven to four, but one death was confirmed in NSW on Sunday.
- Liz Main