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Tom MinearUS correspondent

Tom Minear is News Corp Australia’s US correspondent. He was previously based in Melbourne with the Herald Sun, where he started in 2011 and held positions including national political editor and state political editor. Minear has won Quill and Walkley journalism awards.

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A man covers his face with a breathing mask as bushfire smoke haze and light rain hang over the Melbourne CBD. Monday, January 6, 2019. Picture: David Crosling

Spike in ambo call-outs on horror haze day

Hundreds of people needed emergency relief after a thick smoke haze swamped Melbourne and surrounds yesterday, with a massive spike in ambulance call outs. And the haze is here to stay for a few days yet.

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Bushfire in Bunyip State Park CFA watch a fire in Tynong North. . Picture: Alex Coppel.

CFA calls for on-the-spot fines for firestarters

The CFA is calling for instant fines for anyone who starts campfires, lights barbecues or uses machinery on a total fire ban day as firefighters try to crack down on illegal burns while the state braces for a scorching week.

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Deputy Vic Nats leader (and Coalition water spokeswoman) Steph Ryan is working on a proposal to enlarge the Buffalo dam in northeast Victoria. The Nats see a Lake Buffalo expansion as something that can be done as part of the Murray Darling Basin tri-state agreement, effectively to offset the 160GL a year that evaporates from Lake Victoria, which is South Australia's largest off-river storage. The enlargement of Lake Victoria would be intended to provide greater security for the Murray-Darling, rather than resulting in new allocations of water.Deputy Vic Nats leader (and Coalition water spokeswoman) Steph Ryan is working on a proposal to enlarge the Buffalo dam in northeast Victoria. The Nats see a Lake Buffalo expansion as something that can be done as part of the Murray Darling Basin tri-state agreement, effectively to offset the 160GL a year that evaporates from Lake Victoria, which is South Australia's largest off-river storage. The enlargement of Lake Victoria would be intended to provide greater security for the Murray-Darling, rather than resulting in new allocations of water.

Victoria loses out in dam funding

New South Wales and Queensland have secured commitments of almost $1.1 billion from the federal government for new dams and irrigation projects while Premier Daniel Andrews has been slammed for not availing of funds.

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The Metro Tunnel’s first tunnel boring machine (TBM) is making steady progress creating one of the Project’s twin rail tunnels under North Melbourne. Concrete segments are arranged in rings as the TBM advances to form the walls of the Metro Tunnel.(Note: this is TBM ‘Joan’, named after Victoria’s first female Premier Joan Kirner.) SOURCE: STATE GOVERNMENT

Digging resumes as tunnel standoff ends

Work on the Metro Tunnel has restarted, days after workers downed tools in a shock shutdown. It comes after a dispute over cost blowouts on the multibillion-dollar project with the Andrews Government.

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