Our Journalists

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.

@alexwhitelive

Alex White

Latest

ExclusiveVIC News

Robert Mammarella and Khalil Eideh. They to meeting in a Cafe/ Restaurant on the corner of Pascoe Vale Road and Glenroy Road. Picture: David Smith

Charges coming over ALP printing rort

Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog is poised to lay charges as early as this week over a Labor Party printing rort.

VIC News

Man behind bars. Jail. Prison. Prisoner. Hands. Generic image.

Violent crims set free from jail by mistake

A SERIOUS violent offender was set free from jail for 24 days by mistake after Corrections Victoria staff bungled his paperwork — and it’s not the only case where a prisoner was set loose early.

ExclusiveVIC News

Hundreds take part in simulated emergency crisis with MCG used a relief centre. The relief centre will be operated by a team of 150, including City of Melbourne staff, MCC staff, Victoria Police officers, volunteers from Red Cross and the Victorian Council of Churches.This event will test the City of MelbourneÕs ability to work with emergency services to set up a major relief centre at the MCG in the realistic threat of an extreme heat emergency. Craig Lapsley, Emergency Management Commissioner, speaks to media.

Emergency chief on extended leave amid WorkSafe probe

VICTORIA’S emergency response Commissioner Craig Lapsley is on extended leave as WorkSafe continues its investigation into allegations of bullying within the agency.

VIC News

The Legislative council sit an all nighter into Good Friday, the first time Parliament has sat on Good Friday. Debating the fire services reform. Picture: Nicole Garmston

MPs sit longer as Bills backlog mounts

VICTORIAN MPs are being forced to sit extra days to tackle the growing backlog of Bills in the Upper House before the November election.

Law & Order

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.

VIC News

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.

VIC News

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.

VIC News

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.

ExclusiveVIC News

(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.

VIC News

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.

Original URL: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/journalists/alex-white/page/83