Kindergarten will be free for term 3 across locked down COVID-19 suburbs and half price in regional Victoria. It comes as the Victorian chief health officer shares the grim news that 100 “cumulative outbreaks” were now in Victoria, making finding the source of the virus a challenge.
The inquiry into Victoria’s bungled hotel quarantine system will hold its first public sitting in just 10 days amid concerns serious limitations of the probe may stop the truth from surfacing.
A security guard who worked at Crown Promenade Hotel in Victoria’s issue-plagued hotel quarantine fiasco claims he had $8000 put in his account that he was asked to distribute to nine other guards. And that’s not all that went on.
Victoria’s Police Association secretary Wayne Gatt says the plan to use officers to guard nine public housing buildings currently under hard lockdown was sprung on the force. It comes as Victoria recorded another 74 coronavirus cases – the seventh straight day of more than 50.
The shock announcement that residents of nine public housing towers will be trapped in their homes for five days as police patrol outside is a desperate attempt by Daniel Andrews to control the coronavirus crisis and put his government back on track, writes Matt Johnston.
A toxic industrial chemical that stalled the West Gate Tunnel Project has been discovered in groundwater in Melbourne’s bayside suburbs. Now residents have been warned to “avoid contact with the bore water”.
What has become evident during Melbourne’s hotel quarantine fiasco is that cracks are emerging in government unity. When senior ministers declare a problem is “not mine” without outlining who is shouldering responsibility, it is noticed by a suspicious public, writes Matt Johnston.
Labor MPs in Victoria say they continue to “take on water” over the Andrews Government’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. Here’s what they have to say.
While Victorians are set to pay increased road tolls and council rates from July 1, top-tier government workers are pegged for serious pay rises — with some totalling tens of thousands of dollars.
A twin tower block in Docklands and disability housing in Melbourne’s inner southeast are part of a group of projects being fast-tracked for approval in plans to stimulate the economy during the coronavirus crisis. See where the other projects will be.
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