AN AFRICAN community leader has backed a proposal to give officers access to intelligence about youths in the justice system so they are not “caught out” when newly freed thugs go straight out on crime sprees.
STATE Labor’s internal strife has become public but that distracted from the Liberals’ own factional scrap, writes Matt Johnston.
MORE people than ever are having heart attacks in Victoria, but paramedics are reaching them faster and saving more lives with the help of quick-thinking bystanders, new data shows.
VICTORIAN parliamentary intervention to block the $6.7 billion West Gate Tunnel would cripple confidence and cause higher costs, a leading business group has warned.
A VICTORIAN minister known for his colourful turn of phrase has been forced to apologise to a Victorian mayor after saying their slice of funding was “better than a kick in the dick”.
IN a coup for Victoria’s education and jobs market, the University of Melbourne has secured a deal with defence company BAE Systems.
POLLIES have secretly pocketed a salary increase, worth at least $8000 for backbenchers and almost $19,000 for Premier Daniel Andrews.
SHOPPERS could be forced to pay higher prices for products because of a plastic bag ban, according to the Australian Retailers Association.
HOW voters and parties rate the importance of issues in the lead-up to November’s state election could have a big say in the result, says Matt Johnston.
VICTORIA’S equal opportunity commission wants the courts to speed up a hearing on its landmark fire services probe, as the report’s participants become “increasingly agitated” at the delay.
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