Baby killer cleared to work with children
A Victorian woman who killed her eight-week-old daughter was granted a Working with Children Check through a loophole that has angered child safety advocates and victim families.
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Allan ‘won’t apologise’ for missing childcare safety document deadline
Jacinta Allan has defended the government’s inability to produce thousands of documents relating to childcare safety despite the state government in NSW meeting the deadline.
Police taser knife-wielding man in dramatic arrest in Coolaroo
Footage shows the moment a knife-wielding man is brought down in a car park in Melbourne’s north as officers used tasers while one bystander tried to stop the offender with a shopping trolley.
Notorious teen criminal walks free as magistrate admits court orders won’t stop him
One of Victoria’s worst teen offenders, charged more than 400 times, has been set free without further supervision as the magistrate admits he won’t follow court orders.
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Pay the ‘Kaz tax’, have your tobacco rivals torched before they open
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Families to sue childcare giant that hired alleged sex offender Joshua Brown
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‘A bad, bad man’: Hospital bed confession from Murdoch’s last supporter
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Many want male childcare workers banned. Centres say they won’t do it
More than 5000 people have signed a petition calling for men to be banned from working in childcare centres since Joshua Brown was charged with child sex offences. Major childcare providers don’t agree.
New security gates at Broadmeadows Kmart
New security gates have popped up at Broadmeadows Kmart.
Young also facing rape, witness intimidation charges
The man who murdered Ballarat woman Hannah McGuire is also facing rape, intimidation and witness harassment charges, the Herald Sun can reveal.
Lachlan Young pleads guilty to murdering Hannah McGuire
Lachlan Young has dramatically changed his plea, pleading guilty to murdering his girlfriend Hannah McGuire.
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