Sheena Watt becomes Labor’s first female Indigenous MP
Victorian Labor has elected Sheena Watt to fill the role vacated by former health minister Jenny Mikakos, making history as she becomes the party’s first female Indigenous MP.
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Fears for regional spike as cars waved past checkpoint
Shocking footage showing cars being waved through Melbourne’s apparent ‘ring of steel’ checkpoints has emerged, sparking concern of a resurgence of COVID-19 in country Victoria. It comes as the state recorded 12 new coronavirus infections, along with a single death, bringing Melbourne’s 14-day average back into double digits.
Cleanaway given EPA tick for West Gate dirt
A third landfill site has been given environmental approval to handle the toxic soil that has delayed the West Gate Tunnel project.
COVID-19 inquiry to re-examine key government figures
Senior government figures are set to be grilled for a third time by an inquiry into Victoria’s COVID-19 response, with Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp likely to be recalled for evidence.
Andrews ‘shocked’ over phone records as Eccles quits
Premier Daniel Andrews says he was “shocked” to hear his right-hand man Chris Eccles’ phone records show he spoke to former chief commissioner Graham Ashton for two minutes during the six-minute period being probed by the hotel quarantine inquiry. Now Victorian Labor MPs are turning on the Premier, saying he “must resign”.
Shock statistics reveal danger of older cars
Car crashes are more likely to be fatal if they involve an old car, new statistics have revealed, prompting a push to get them off Victorian roads.
Premier dashes hopes for lockdown relief as cases spike
Victoria is unlikely to take a big step out of lockdown on October 19 as Premier Daniel Andrews warned coronavirus cases were were not moving in the right direction. It comes as the Box Hill Hospital cluster continues to grow and the source of the outbreak remains unknown.
Altona beachgoers exposed to virus; Andrews stays quiet on Mikakos
A popular beachside location has been identified as a coronavirus exposure site, while Premier Daniel Andrews has refused to comment on a scathing attack by his former health minister Jenny Mikakos about the state’s hotel quarantine program.
‘Trump-like’: Union lashes government’s logging plan
The CFMMEU have lashed out at the state government’s plantation strategy, labelling the scheme to expand timber plantations in East Gippsland as “Trump-like” and claiming it does little for Victoria’s timber workers.
Chaddy store manager rushed to ICU; DHHS in Kilmore tracing race
The manager of a Chadstone butcher shop at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak has been rushed to intensive care for the second time as Daniel Andrews says the cluster is “under control”. It comes as contact tracers race to test residents in the regional town of Kilmore after a local cafe became a “highly risky transmission site”.
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