The head of the state’s anti-corruption commission says a surge in demand for its work has not been matched by more government funding — despite a string of high profile cases including probes into Casey Council and the Labor Party.
Businesses across Melbourne will be targeted in a major blitz to catch workplaces breaching strict coronavirus rules. The crackdown comes as concerning new data shows how many outbreaks are linked to work sites.
A Supreme Court bid to put the brakes on the $15.8 billion North East Link project has been dealt a blow after one council involved in the legal battle walked away. Here’s the latest.
In another sign of turmoil in Victoria’s fire services, the chair of the CFA board has resigned as the volunteer brigade continues to work through controversial reforms.
A whistleblower at a Victorian abattoir has blown the lid off the state’s contact tracing system, revealing a series of delays and bungles and a lack of guidance by the health department after a meat inspector tested positive to coronavirus.
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.
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