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Melbourne emergency

March

Ballarat gold mine victim Kurt Hourigan.

Ballarat mine criminal lawsuit looms

The former owner of the Ballarat gold mine where one worker was killed and another injured in a collapse 500 metres underground was being pursued for unpaid rehabilitation bonds.

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  • Peter Ker and Gus McCubbing

May 2023

Inner-city awnings would be vulnerable to collapse in a major earthquake say experts.

Australia complacent about earthquake catastrophe: seismologists

Many of Australia’s cities sit on fault lines, leaving many of the country’s older buildings vulnerable to catastrophe, warn seismology experts.

  • Tom Burton
Parts of Melbourne and wider Victoria were rattled by the quake.

Buildings crack, roads buckle in magnitude-3.8 Melbourne earthquake

Wide parts of the city have been hit by a tremor that shook residents awake with swaying buildings and a loud roaring sound.

  • Tom Burton

August 2020

KPMG associate director Sarah Overton.

The make or break skills for consultants amid lockdown

Emotional intelligence is more important than ever when communicating over video as people work from home, says KPMG's Sarah Overton.

  • Edmund Tadros
Massive lines of people lining up outside a Melbourne Centrelink office in March.

Lockdown will test Australia's willingness to sacrifice

Politicians must present more rigorous evidence and cost-benefit analysis to keep people’s faith that the sacrifices of COVID-19 lockdowns are worth the pain.

  • John Kehoe

July 2020

The now famous Crossroads Hotel on the edge of suburban Sydney.

What price for living with a virus we can't kill?

We must hope that elimination can be the by-product of a good suppression strategy. But the cost of that may be a little less privacy in future.

  • The AFR View

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