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The Melbourne Market in Epping.

Fruit-and-veg market stand-off heads to court as sellers face eviction

Wholesale fruit and vegetable sellers at the Epping market have been given 30 days to sign up to new lease agreements that have significantly higher rents.

  • Chip Le Grand

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The Hallam Road landfill in Hampton Park.

Victoria wants to burn more waste for energy – in someone else’s electorate

While the government has sought another lift to the cap on how much rubbish can be burned each year, proposed waste-to-energy projects are meeting community backlash and regulatory barriers.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Free pad and tampon kiosk technician Gabrielle Seils-Owen says one of the joys of her job is seeing women’s faces “light up” when they learn about the initiative.

Found yourself caught short of sanitary products? Free vending machine for tampons dispense 20,000 packs

Victoria has distributed more than 20,000 free packs of sanitary products in the first stage of its trial to provide free pads and tampons in public places.

  • Broede Carmody
Daniel Andrews - still involved in housing policy?

Allan’s private meeting with Andrews ahead of crunch policy move

The pair got the old band back together for a meeting at the start of October to discuss “more housing for Victorians”.

  • Liam Mannix, Kishor Napier-Raman and Kieran Rooney
The government is not going to try to recoup the cash.

Businesses can keep nearly $20 million in mistaken grants

Almost $20 million in grants were wrongly paid to about 2000 commercial landlords and small to medium-sized businesses.

  • Rachel Eddie
Maribyrnong Truck Action Group president Martin Wurt says the failure of the trade-in scheme felt like a broken promise.

Truck trade-in scheme fails to spend a cent, receives just two failed applications

A $15 million truck trade-in scheme that promised to reduce pollution in Melbourne’s inner-west has not paid a single grant 18 months after it first opened.

  • Kieran Rooney
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Mental health royal commission chair Penny Armytage released the report into Victoria’s mental health system with Daniel Andrews in 2021.

Four-year delay in transferring power from police to paramedics for mental health callouts

Labor had previously announced that paramedics would take over from police as the first responders to triple-zero calls for mental health crises from September 1, 2023.

  • Rachel Eddie and Kieran Rooney
Over the past four years, there has been an 11-petajoule decline in gas consumption from industrial users in Victoria.

Gas use has fallen as manufacturers close. Some say this spells economic trouble

Closures of large gas-reliant manufacturers have helped spare Victoria from gas shortages. But it has raised alarms over the state’s economy.

  • Kieran Rooney and Hannah Kennelly
Premier Jacinta Allan and Minister for Victims Anthony Carbines.

Victims of crime at risk as counsellors left unpaid

Psychologists and counsellors say they are being forced to choose between abandoning their patients or working without pay under the state’s new scheme for treating victims of crime.

  • Rachel Eddie
Melbounre’s CBD has more than 1000 unsold, new apartments.

The Melbourne suburbs with hundreds of cheap, brand-new apartments

The state government wants developers to build more housing, but they can’t even shift the units they already have.

  • Daniella White

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