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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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A stronger police presence around the area where 22 year old Eurydice Dixon was found dead at Princes Park, Carlton North. Picture: Tony Gough

Police to boost patrols in Carlton North area

POLICE will boost patrols around the Carlton North area where Eurydice Dixon was found murdered as some locals express concern they were not told about a sex assault in March about 1km away.

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20/04/2017: VICBUDGET2017. Luke Linaker and Vesna Newman, from John Holland, onsite at the Metro Tunnel project opening in Franklin Street, Melbourne. Picture Stuart McEvoy for The Australian.

Urgent repairs after Metro tunnel steel fails test

METAL support beams imported for the $11 billion Melbourne Metro Project have been hit with major safety warnings and are being urgently mended at workshops in Victoria.

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Victoria Police Minister Lisa Neville holds a press conference in Melbourne, Thursday May 31, 2018. Victoria's Transport Accident Commission has suspended its funding to the police force after officers were found to have faked more than a quarter of a million breath tests. Melbourne, Thursday, May 31, 2018. (AAP Image/Joe Castro) NO ARCHIVING

Police urged to reopen rorts-for-votes probe

VICTORIA Police are being asked to reopen their investigation into Labor’s $388,000 rorts-for-votes scheme following “compelling” new evidence released in the State Ombudsman’s report, according to the Victorian Opposition.

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A supplied undated image obtained Tuesday, June 12, 2018 of some of the 136 wedge-tailed eagle carcasses found on a rural property in East Gippsland. Victoria's environment department is hunting the culprit behind what has been dubbed the largest slaying of wedge-tailed eagles in the state's history. (AAP Image/Supplied by Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

More dead wedge-tailed eagles found

THE number of dead wedge-tailed eagles has soared to at least 136 and is expected to grow, with investigators working to determine who deliberately harmed the native birds of prey in Victoria’s far east.

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(FILES) This file picture dated on July 26, 2003 shows fluorescent mouse, provided by the transgenic company Level Biotech, displayed inside a box during the Bio Taiwan 2003 fair at the World Trade Center in Taipei. Osamu Shimomura of Japan and US duo Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien won on October 8, 2008 the Nobel Chemistry Prize for a fluorescent protein derived from a jellyfish that has become a vital tool in research. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) has revolutionised lab work in medicine and biology, enabling scientists to get a visual fix on how diseases spread in mice and lab-dish cells or whether cells respond to treatment, the Nobel jury said. AFP PHOTO/Sam YEH

Pound dogs, koalas among million animals tested on in Victoria

FROM pound pups to lab rats, more than one million animals were used for scientific testing in Victoria in a year, the first time the numbers have jumped in three years.

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An artist impression of noise walls for the West Gate tunnel project.

West Gate tunnel project faces delays

THE $6.7 billion West Gate Tunnel toll road project could be hit with major construction delays and cost blowouts as the building consortium and unions butt heads over a workplace agreement.

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Journalist Mark Morri wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet. Fitted at Silverwater Correctional Complex and then walking around Silverwater entering a predifined restricted zone.

Victoria’s most vicious young criminals to be tracked

YOUTH parolees with violent criminal histories will be electronically tracked and face mandatory drug and alcohol testing under tough new crackdown.

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News : Interview with Emma Walters who is CFMEU Boss's John Setka's wife . Picture Andrew Tauber

‘Good’ union boss just wants to be with family

EMMA Walters whose union boss husband John Setka was sensationally acquitted of blackmail charges this week has revealed her harrowing pain during the drawn out battle.

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CFA trucks protest at Ararat Aerodrome waiting for the Premier Daniel Andrews to land.The Premier who was in Ararat to announce a major renewable energy initiative was driven by car and did not land at the Aerodrome.

CFA members ambush Andrews

LATEST: PREMIER Daniel Andrews has been ambushed by 200 furious CFA volunteers in Ararat, as the firefighters union chief refused to discuss the CFA pay crisis he’s been at the centre of.

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Crackdown on selling booze to kids

BOTTLE shops selling booze to children will be targeted today in a bid to stem the alcohol flow to underage drinkers before New Year’s Eve celebrations.

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