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Miles Proust is a court reporter for the Herald Sun.

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MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos SEPTEMBER 25TH 2023 : Chief Commissioner Shane Patton speaks at the new Victoria Police Museum, Docklands. PICTURE : NCA Newswire / Nicki Connolly

Top cop defends delay in getting protesters off West Gate Bridge

Chief Commissioner Shane Patton has hit out at the “selfish, entitled” climate protesters and explained why it took so long for officers to clear their blockade.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA- SEPTEMBER 21 A school bus carrying 32 people has flipped on the Western Highway in Bacchus Marsh. Police are investigating the crash between a school bus and a truck that occured at around 3.15am. Picture: Brendan Beckett Loreto College

Loreto College teacher still has nightmares over bus crash tragedy

A Ballarat teacher involved in a horror Pentland Hills bus crash has broken down in court, saying he still has nightmares about “dead” children and hears their screaming.

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MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos MARCH 4TH 2024 : Truck driver Brett Russell, 60, facing 80 offences after a horror crash near Bacchus Marsh, injuring 27 schoolgirls on September 21, 2022, leaves Melbourne Magistrates Court. PICTURE : NCA Newswire / Nicki Connolly

Loreto College students haunted by bus crash carnage

The truck driver accused of ploughing into a bus carrying Loreto College students may force some of his victims into the witness box after contesting the seriousness of their injuries.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos July 1st 2020: CFMEU protest at 775 Toorak rd in Hawthorn East. Picture by Wayne Taylor

Union organiser sues CFMEU over alleged group assault

Militant union CFMEU is being sued by a worker who was allegedly bashed during a safety inspection, sustaining injuries he claims has left him unable to work for nearly four years.

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Emergency services rushed to the Emerald Reception Centre on Settlement Rd in Thomastown after a fire on Thursday. Picture: Genevieve Holding

Man charged over alleged Thomastown arson attack

A 20-year-old man has fronted court charged over the alleged arson attack at a Thomastown reception centre.

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MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos DECEMBER 7TH 2023 : Di Sanh Duong, arrives at the County Court, accused of trying to interfere with former federal minister Alan Tudge on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party in 2020. COUNTY. PICTURE : NCA Newswire / Nicki Connolly

Former Liberal candidate jailed for China foreign interference

Di Sanh “Sunny” Duong has been jailed for a year for trying to influence former federal minister Alan Tudge to advance the aims of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Police have charged two men and seized four guns and a significant amount of illicit tobacco as part of an investigation by Taskforce Lunar into a series of suspicious fires across Melbourne last year connected to the current illicit tobacco dispute.48 year old Thomastown Man

Tobacco wars mechanic jailed on firearm charges

A Thomastown mechanic arrested as part of an investigation into Victoria’s tobacco wars has been jailed after police seized firearms from his business last month.

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Damien Woods, 47, who was the director of music at Ballarat High School for the past 25 years, had his teaching registration suspended by the state’s teaching regulator on January 24 after multiple students came forward with allegations of child sex abuse.

Ex-Ballarat teacher learns fate over child sex abuse

A former Ballarat High School teacher has learned his fate in court after pleading guilty to 12 child sex offences with a teenage girl.

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Lisa Flanagan says she suffers post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and fears stepping inside hospitals after she was brutally assaulted by another patient who climbed into her bed at the Melbourne Clinic in Richmond in March 2019.

Woman sues after rape at mental health clinic allegedly covered up

A woman raped by another patient at the Melbourne Clinic has launched legal action, amid claims staff tried to cover up the assault and then forced her to leave the mental health facility.

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MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 13, 2024: William Wheatley is seen outside the Magistrates Court during his Committal for charges of corruption alongside theft and money-laundering offences after an internal investigation. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui

AFP cop accused of stealing Bitcoin facing drug charges

An AFP officer accused of stealing Bitcoin worth $6m from a drug dealer will stand trial for trafficking ice, after the drug was allegedly found during a raid of his home.

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