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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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Victoria

A new gas pipeline facility in Western Australia owned and developed by APA Group. Supplied: APA Group.

Vic gas pipeline network gets $75m boost amid looming shortage

The nation’s largest gas pipeline operator APA Group will pump $75m into expanding its infrastructure in Victoria in an effort to ward off future shortages.

ExclusiveVictoria

Labor set to be wiped out at next election, former party secretary warns

Victorian Labor will likely keep bleeding support and suffer a devastating defeat in the 2026 state election, shocking analysis of the Werribee by-election has revealed.

ExclusiveVictoria

DOGE Victoria style? Thousands of public sector jobs on chopping block

Premier Jacinta Allan has announced a review into the public service, as workers at government agencies and departments brace for mass cuts, with sources claiming more than 6500 public jobs could be axed.

Victoria

Echuca homes on the wrong side of the flood levee are battling against time construct a sandbag island around a small group of affected homes surrounded by rising flood water from the Murray River. Goulburn Road resident Nicole Salisbury has lost the fight to keep the water out of her house so has helped her neighbours instead. Picture: David Caird

Allan govt rejects call to retrofit homes at risk of flooding

More than two years on from the devastating 2022 flood events, the government says it won’t introduce a taxpayer-funded program to protect homes in flood-prone areas.

Victoria

‘Unprecedented’: Allan quizzed over her no-confidence vote claim

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has been questioned over her claim a no-confidence vote in Shane Patton was “unprecedented”, as the opposition leader lashed her for not speaking to the state’s former top cop over the weekend.

Local Footy

West Coast Eagles players entrance on the east side of Kitchener Park. Player Josh Hill

Melbourne footy club axes ex-AFL star after police charges

An ex-AFL star charged with historic child sexual offences has been stood down from the state’s Indigenous body and has had his contract to play local footy in Melbourne torn up.

Victoria

Journalist Mitch Clark and tattooist Josh Green.Classic Ink Tattoos in Yarraville is offering free Pam the Bird tattoosJournalist Mitch Clark is taking up the challenge. Picture: Jason Edwards

First the Cheese Stick, now your arm: This tattoo parlour wants to immortalise Pam the Bird

A Melbourne tattoo parlour has compared Pam the Bird to Banksy and says people are lining up to “share the movement” with free tattoos of the graffiti vandal’s famous cartoon tag.

Victoria

Sad child, domestic violence, sex abuse concept. Generic picture from istock. No identification.

Education department failed on child abuse cases: Ombudsman

Victoria’s Department of Education fumbled two cases of child sexual abuse, failing to support the victims and giving inaccurate advice to the schools, a damning ombudsman report has found.

ExclusiveVictoria

Pictures depicting domestic violence.Source: iStock / Getty Images

She said she was fleeing domestic abuse. It didn’t save her from Victoria’s Airbnb tax

The Allan government is under fire for doing nothing to protect domestic violence victims when introducing its controversial short stay levy.

Victoria

Lives at risk: Eating disorder treatment centre opening delayed

Construction on a new multimillion eating disorder clinic in Melbourne’s East has been delayed putting lives at risk, families warn.

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