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Suspended students interpret the experience as a message that they don’t belong at the school anymore.

School suspensions beget more suspensions. It’s rare that they fix student behaviour

When I worked as a school principal, literally nothing in the job robbed me of more sleep than when I had to suspend students.

  • Adam Voigt

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State government principals have been granted new powers.

Northland machete brawlers should be kicked out of school, government says

The state government is giving principals expanded powers to punish out-of-school conduct, but the profession is worried.

  • Noel Towell, Nicole Precel and Bridie Smith
A Suburban Rail Loop construction site.

Premier concedes soaring costs a risk to Suburban Rail Loop

Since 2021 Australia had recorded a 22 per cent increase in the cost of construction.

  • Kieran Rooney and Daniella White
An artist’s render of the 17-storey affordable housing tower proposed for Para Rd, Greensborough.

The suburban towers being green-lit without community approval

The Allan government has frequently used its strengthened powers to bypass local councils and green-light developments, including one set to change the skyline of Greensborough.

  • Daniella White
All states and territories will review their alcohol laws as part of national cabinet’s response to the domestic violence crisis.

‘How do they sleep at night?’ Allan and Minns governments, experts demand Albanese fix GST

The cost blowout stemming from Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison’s special GST deal for WA is now the federal budget’s biggest and comparable only with the NDIS.

  • Paul Sakkal and Shane Wright
Premier Jacinta Allan had heavy and drawn-out periods as a young person, later diagnosed as endometriosis.

‘Wild with rage’: It took Jacinta Allan more than a decade to learn the source of her pain

Women who have sought help over years for a condition more common than diabetes say they have felt gaslit and disbelieved, and live in excruciating pain. Jacinta Allan is among the 1 million Australians hoping for better.

  • Wendy Tuohy
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Sheep and beef farmer Bernie Free on his property near Winslow, Victoria where the effects of the drought are being felt.

Farmers to be spared fire tax increase after months of backlash

Treasurer Jaclyn Symes says capping the levy for primary producers would help farmers stay focused on their drought response and recovery.

  • Kieran Rooney and Benjamin Preiss
Victoria has received a $1 billion dividend from the TAC.

Victoria pockets another $1 billion from the TAC

The state government will receive a $1.13 billion dividend from the Transport Accident Commission, its second billion-dollar payment in as many years.

  • Kieran Rooney
Viva Energy in Geelong.

Victoria’s first gas-import terminal a step closer

The project in Corio Bay has won conditional approval from the Allan government despite concerns it is too close to residential areas and will entrench the state’s use of fossil fuels.

  • Kieran Rooney
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan with Jewish community leaders outside the Adass Israel synagogue in Ripponlea after the arson attack.

In Jacinta Allan, Melbourne Jews have discovered a friend

The premier’s decision to toast Israel’s independence when condemnation of the war in Gaza is reaching a crescendo is unlikely to win her votes outside her party room or support from within.

  • Chip Le Grand

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