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Digital technology has allowed abusers to adopt new strategies for intimate partner violence.

Victoria, NSW frustrated by federal funding cuts to domestic violence partnership

The national partnership provides operational funding to the states and territories for local services that save lives.

  • Rachel Eddie and Michael McGowan

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Nyxoid is a brand of naloxone that is a nasal spray that blocks or reverses the effects of opioid drugs.

Frontline police officers barred from carrying life-saving drug naloxone

At least two Australians die of an opioid-related overdose every day, but Victorian police have been told they are not allowed to carry a free, life-saving antidote.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola
Selina has been a healthAbility patient for 20 years.

As the Suburban Rail Loop drives up rents, this affordable health clinic could become homeless

Policies aimed at better public transport and more housing in Box Hill could have the perverse effect of forcing out a not-for-profit clinic that provides health services to the same, fast-growing population.

  • Chip Le Grand
Jacob Hersant was interviewed by police and will be charged at a later date.

Neo-Nazis’ Anzac Day taunts unlikely to breach hate-speech law, experts say

National outrage over white supremacists’ booing at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance has sparked debate about whether Victoria’s beefed-up anti-vilification legislation could be used to punish the agitators.

  • Rachel Eddie, Brittany Busch, Sherryn Groch and Lachlan Abbott
Transgender rights activists demonstrate outside the Victorian parliament in 2022.

Police invoke powers to unmask disruptors as women’s rights rally returns to scene of neo-Nazi stunt

Tough search-and-arrest powers will be in force on Saturday around state parliament, where trans-rights activists plan to disrupt a women’s rights rally which last year was crashed by right-wing extremists.

  • Chip Le Grand
Victoria’s local public health units opened during the pandemic.

‘People are going to die’: Funding doubt over state’s frontline public health defence

The Victorian government refuses to guarantee the future of local public health units that were crucial to the state’s pandemic fight, igniting concerns about more budget cuts to an already stretched health service.

  • Chip Le Grand, Henrietta Cook and Broede Carmody
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Moira Deeming re-enters the party room on December 27 last year.

Moira Deeming promoted, stoking tensions over Pesutto’s fate

Opposition Leader Brad Battin has named Deeming his “representative to the western suburbs”, after her defamation victory against the party’s former leader threatens to push him to the brink of bankruptcy.

  • Rachel Eddie
Competition is increasing among landfill operators for soil.

Pay dirt: Landfills fight for lucrative soil contracts

Rising landfill levies and a slowdown in construction have sparked instability within Victoria’s waste industry as operators warn of aggressive tactics and the financial collapse of some recycling and reuse companies. 

  • Kieran Rooney
Suburban Rail Loop construction under way at Clayton.

Cancelling Suburban Rail Loop likely to cost billions

Industry insiders estimate the payout could significantly exceed the $1.1 billion it cost the Andrews government to cancel the East West Link.

  • Kieran Rooney
Premier Jacinta Allan, Housing and Building Minister Harriet Shing, and then premier Daniel Andrews.

Victoria falls 20,000 short on home-building target

New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown the Victorian government falling well short of its building target of 80,000 homes a year.

  • Rachel Eddie

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