State pockets $1.7b from TAC amid road safety crisis
The state government has received $1.73 billion from the Transport Accident Commission over the past six years, bolstering its own coffers with more cash than the state-owned insurer spent on road safety upgrades.
- by Patrick Hatch
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‘I’ll kill you if you come inside’: Father describes window rescue of toddler during siege in Melbourne’s west
A Weir Views father has told of waking from a nap with his young child to find an armed intruder in his daughter’s bedroom.
- by Patrick Hatch and Marta Pascual Juanola
Victorian council election results 2024 LIVE updates: Suspected postal vote tampering in council elections
All the updates on the results in Victoria’s local government elections.
- by Rachael Dexter, Tom Cowie, Adam Carey, Sophie Aubrey, Benjamin Preiss, Patrick Hatch and Cara Waters
‘Cab invasions’: Metro Trains beefs up security after passengers break into driver cabins
Train drivers have reported dozens of encounters with people who have broken into cabins at the rear of trains this year.
- by Patrick Hatch
Touch-on stand-off: State government in dispute with US firm over myki upgrade
The Victorian government and the company building its $1.7 billion new public transport ticket system are locked in an acrimonious legal stand-off which has threatened to derail the rollout of a long-awaited myki replacement.
- by Patrick Hatch and Kieran Rooney
Myki meltdown: Trams, buses hit by glitches linked to end of 3G
Up to 200 trams and 2500 buses could be affected by a myki reader outage, despite Victoria spending millions to prevent it happening.
- by Patrick Hatch
E-scooters blocking footpaths at centre of disability discrimination case
Yarra City Council is being asked to enforce its own rules or provide better e-scooter parking after a wheelchair user said e-scooters frequently disrupted his trips.
- by Patrick Hatch
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VicRoads was sold off with a promise of improved service. Instead, service got worse
Now, the impact of that is becoming clear: wait times have ballooned, service centres have been forced to close, customer satisfaction has plunged and staff say overworked colleagues are quitting in droves and not being replaced.
- by Patrick Hatch
Hospitals, homes and hoons: Everything you need to know about ‘Dump Day’ 2024
More than a quarter of Victoria’s emergency patients are not being treated within the recommended time frames.
- by Broede Carmody, Rachel Eddie, Kieran Rooney and Patrick Hatch
Brunswick sky rail plans put station metres from apartment windows
Residents of an apartment praised for its livability fear they’ll have to sell up if plans to consolidate the areas’ train stations aren’t altered.
- by Patrick Hatch
‘Squashed’: High-rise plan blindsides Toorak
A council in Melbourne’s inner east says the state government’s fast-tracking of apartment development cuts across its own plans to cater for growth.
- by Patrick Hatch
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