Politics
Victoria
Abuse cases surging as child protection investigations take weeks to start
Victoria spends $821.96 per child on care services, which is the least in the nation.
- by Kieran Rooney
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Labor’s $15b Metro Tunnel rocked by CFMEU ‘ghost shift’ scandal
An investigation has been launched into one of the state’s signature transport projects after the sacking of two union delegates.
- by Sarah Danckert and Nick McKenzie
The space squeeze shutting families out of libraries, public pools
Ease of access to a local pool or library has become a marker of relative advantage in Melbourne. The gap is widening for the city’s fastest-growing communities.
- by Adam Carey
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Victorian Parliament
This New York train station was the world’s most expensive. Sunshine may have it beat
The architecturally splendid Oculus, at New York’s rebuilt World Trade Centre, cost $US4 billion to build. Sunshine station could give the record a nudge.
- by Chip Le Grand
Melbourne’s growing stamp duty headache
Stamp duty should be phased out and replaced with a residential land tax over the next 30 years, Infrastructure Victoria says in a new report.
- by Adam Carey
‘I thought we’d look after people’: 60,000 homes needed for vulnerable Victorians
Advocate Cory Memery says the government can’t “wash its hands” of vulnerable Victorians, and that any new investment – like the $30 billion build recommended by Infrastructure Victoria – should be for state-managed public housing.
- by Rachel Eddie
Power bills forecast to soar in Victoria
Electricity costs are set to double over the next five years even if the state meets its renewable energy targets, according to new projections.
- by Kieran Rooney
Buyers with defects in new homes to get easy access to cash under law changes
Developers will be asked to pay a bond covering apartment defects, and claiming domestic building insurance will be easier under the Allan government’s attempt to fix the building industry.
- by Kieran Rooney
Push for 30km/h speed limit on all local streets to improve safety
A 30-year strategy to meet Victoria’s population needs recommends cutting speed limits, starting with the areas around schools, childcare and kindergarten facilities and playgrounds.
- by Rachel Eddie, Hannah Kennelly and Kieran Rooney
New train stations, tram extensions, rapid-fire buses: Here’s what Melbourne needs and where
Infrastructure Victoria has urged the state government to make sweeping public transport upgrades as part of a 30-year strategy to fill in the city’s missing links.
- by Kieran Rooney and Hannah Kennelly
The high-rise towers planned for this bayside suburb will shock most people, residents say
Maps reveal the height caps for new apartment and office buildings in the streets of six suburbs set to host Suburban Rail Loop stations.
- by Daniella White
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