Maritime workers at the Port of Melbourne have been stood down after refusing to unload cargo such as toilet paper and medical supplies off a container vessel from China. But their employer says the ship has been cleared to dock.
Melbourne water users will be hit with a charge of about $9 next financial year for the Wonthaggi desalination plant in order to keep it at near-maximum capacity for healthier storages.
Members of Melbourne’s now-notorious “Colorado cluster” who allegedly failed to self-isolate have been lashed by a Liberal politician, who labelled them “flogs”. It comes as the group of Victorian high flyers copped a public blasting in Portsea this week.
Three Victorians have died from coronavirus and several others are fighting for their lives as the country’s death toll rises to 13. It comes as experts flag concerns returned international travellers are trying to conceal the illness.
Public transport operators are in need of assistance as they haemorrhage money to keep trains, trams and buses running despite majority of commuters working from home. It comes as the head of Victoria’s police union called for a state of disaster to be declared to give officers more powers to deal with coronavirus.
Car registration would be scrapped under a major shake-up of the state’s transport pricing plan, with motorists instead being charged in a way that will ease congestion. Here’s what’s proposed.
The AFL has defied the coronavirus crisis and footy is back but, with no fans in attendance, and no guarantees, the competition faces losses in the “hundreds of millions”. Here’s the AFL’s ‘war cabinet’ plans to combat that prospect.
Energy retail pests would be banned from bombarding families with phone calls, and penalties for wrongful disconnections would be doubled if Labor is re-elected.
A key witness in the rorts-for-votes scandal provided significant information to assist police in their investigation before their brief of evidence was wrapped up, it has been revealed.
PARENTS with children at public high schools would save almost $3000 in textbook costs if the Victorian Coalition wins the November election.
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