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Transport companies given fine-free time as AI powers inner-west truck ban

Melbourne’s freight task has dramatically changed from when the West Gate Tunnel was first proposed.

  • Chip Le Grand

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The allegations relate to BK Labour, a major supplier of workers across multiple Big Build projects, including the recently opened Metro Tunnel.

Major Big Build labour hire company embroiled in fraud investigation

A man has been charged after police swooped on a Port Melbourne business on Wednesday.

  • Nick McKenzie
Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Jaclyn Symes release the government response to the Silver review.

Abolition of ‘lived experience’ test for mental health leaders alarms industry

The mental health sector says axing a requirement for people who have experienced mental health challenges to be at the forefront of reform is a betrayal.

  • Rachel Eddie
Labor MP Sheena Watt during the apology.

Mixing pride and sorrow, Victoria says sorry to First Peoples

In emotional scenes, Premier Jacinta Allan has used her apology to First Peoples to vow that Treaty will not be a mere gesture.

  • Kieran Rooney
Benny Zable and Tarneen Onus Browne, represented by the Human Rights Law Centre, are filing a legal and constitutional challenge to police search powers in the Federal Court.

Expanded police search powers challenged in Federal Court

The Human Rights Law Centre is challenging the Victoria Police decision to declare all of Melbourne CBD and surrounds a “designated area” for six months straight.

  • Rachel Eddie
The Victorian government has let transparency and integrity issues slide, with legislation falling short of recommended benchmarks.

Keeping secrets: How Victoria has fallen behind other states on integrity

They’re the reports gathering dust as the state focuses on crime, housing and health. But Victoria’s integrity system no longer looks fit for purpose.

  • Royce Millar
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Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Jaclyn Symes.

Victorians are paying dearly for our slow, top-heavy public service

Victoria’s former top bureaucrat did not need much time to identify where the public service she once led had lost its way.

  • Chip Le Grand
Greens MP for Brunswick, Tim Read, chairs parliament’s integrity and oversight committee.

Give corruption watchdog teeth to follow the money, government told

A parliamentary committee has recommended IBAC be unleashed to oversee the use of public funds by subcontractors and to pursue “grey corruption”.

  • Rachel Eddie
Former Victorian Liberal opposition leaders Brad Battin, John Pesutto, Michael O’Brien and Matthew Guy.

The Liberal leadership has been a bloodbath, but one goodfella has changed the script

For recently removed party leaders, nothing screams louder than the silence of your phone.

  • Chip Le Grand
Porter Davis left hundreds of homes unfinished when it collapsed in March.

‘I hate them all’: Insurance staff denigrated home owners who had lost everything

Hundreds of Victorian families were left out of pocket with unfinished homes when builders collapsed in 2023. Insurance staff at a government agency privately denigrated them with profanities.

  • Rachel Eddie

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