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Alex WhiteState politics reporter

Alex White is an award winning member of the state rounds team reporting on daily political stories as well as long-term investigative projects. Before the Victorian Parliament she was based in Melbourne as the state security reporter and has accumulated a decade of journalistic experience at News Corp papers.

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$750k a year: The top bureaucrats earning more than the PM

While many Victorians continue to struggle with the cost-of-living crisis, the state’s top bureaucrats are pocketing up to $750,000 a year in eye-watering salaries. See the top earners.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 21, 2024: Ceremonial Opening of Treaty Negotiations on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country in the Darebin Parklands.Chairs of the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria Ngarra Murray and Ruben Berg along with assembly members, tribes from throughout Victoria, Premier Jacinta Allan and Treaty Minister Natalie Hutchins and cabinet ministers gather for a day of ceremony and celebration of the start of Treaty negotiations.Co-Chairs of the First Peoples Assembly Ngarra Murray and Ruben Berg sitting with the Premier Jacinta Allan. Picture: NewsWire / POOL/ Justin McManus.

Indigenous advocates told to clean up socials for secret Treaty

Indigenous advocates claim they’ve been told not to talk publicly about ongoing Treaty negotiations and to scrub social media of contentious content to avoid public backlash before a deal is done.

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Neo-Nazi’s gatecrash Liberal MP’s event

A group of neo-Nazi’s have gatecrashed a Victorian Liberal MP’s community event, which was being held to discuss the controversial renaming of a lake in Melbourne’s outer southeast.

Victoria

St Vincents Hospital Emergency Department Entrance. Ambulances are taking more than 20 minutes to be assigned to Category 1 emergency patients last night and ramping up to two hours at Sydney hospitals. Picture: John Appleyard

Health boss says hospitals to work together more seamlessly after Premier denied forced mergers

Hospitals will share services and run in a “tier” structure with seamless integration, the state’s health boss reveals, but health sources claim the move was merging by stealth after the state government said it would not force amalgamation of health services.

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The state government is building a new solar farm near Horsham.

Huge government-owned solar farm coming to state’s west

A mammoth $370m government-owned solar farm big enough to power entire regional cities is set to be built near Horsham, the state government has revealed.

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Pano AI is a San Francisco-based disaster preparedness technology provider and is the first company in Australia to offer a fully integrated active bushfire detection solution, that uses satellites, ultra HD 360 degree panoramic cameras, and artificial intelligence to help fire authorities identify and extinguish new ignitions before they become a threat - safeguarding lives, communities, and the environment.

How new AI bushfire cameras can spot blazes in remote bush

Cutting-edge AI cameras that can pinpoint fires up to 20km away are set to become game-changers during the looming bushfire season.

Victoria

‘Hands were tied’: Parks Victoria defends rock climbing ban

The Parks Victoria boss has revealed what led to the controversial decision to close swathes of the Mt Arapiles national park and ban rock climbing.

Victoria

Port Adelaide Salvage and its director, Maurice Corsaro, are being sentenced today (7/2/19) in the ERD Court for an illegal dump at a Highbury quarry and a second one at Houghton that involved about 1440 tonnes of demolition waste. Supplied photos of both sites and video of Highbury of the tipper trucks unloading from the EPA

Fresh pain for Big Build sites as tip truck drivers strike

Big build projects and private housing developments across Melbourne are facing new delays as hundreds of tipper truck drivers walk off the job in the state’s latest strike action.

Victoria

Protesters hold banners and chant slogans as they march in support of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) in central Sydney on September 18, 2024. Thousands of trade workers joined marches in Melbourne and Sydney to protest against the federal government's decision to force the CFMEU's construction arm into administration. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Young Labor’s bold call to reinstate sacked CFMEU officials

Nuclear power, free public transport and reinstating sacked CFMEU union officials are among the bold ideas up for discussion at this weekend’s Victoria’s Young Labor conference.

Victoria

Monash Council has endorsed its Clayton Precinct Plan to guide development in Clayton Road between Centre Road and just north of the Monash Medical Centre. Picture: Josie Hayden

Vic hospitals in financial crisis with deficits of more than $1bn

Some of Victoria’s busiest hospitals are facing a major cash shortfall with annual reports tabled in parliament revealing more than $1bn in deficits.

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