Home building giants including under-pressure Metricon have sought to alter government contracts to help repair balance sheets smashed by construction cost inflation. 

Scott Morrison has claimed Anthony Albanese will seek to control the lives of Victorians like Daniel Andrews, in a bold last-ditch pitch to the state that could decide the election. 

A shelter for women and children fleeing family violence has been given a legal exemption to accommodate and employ women “and those who identify as women”. 

The state’s embattled emergency call-taking service will be overhauled and rebranded to become ‘Triple Zero Victoria’.

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