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Police Minister Anthony Carbines, Premier Jacinta Allan and Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny announced changes to Victoria’s bail laws.

Machetes banned, police stop-and-search powers expanded in crime crackdown

Jacinta Allan is expected to make more announcements on crime to increase police powers and deter people from showcasing their crimes on social media.

  • Rachel Eddie, Kieran Rooney and Daniella White

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Police Minister Anthony Carbines, Premier Jacinta Allan and Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny announce changes to Victoria’s bail laws.

Allan’s cartoonishly titled bail bill reveals the depths of bad government

These changes to the law have been cobbled together with reckless haste.

  • Chip Le Grand
Premier Jacinta Allan.

Victorian bail overhaul to treat accused children like adults in serious cases

Community safety will become the “overarching principle” in bail decisions, says Premier Jacinta Allan, in response to youth crime surge.

  • Kieran Rooney and Chip Le Grand
Self-described ‘amateur Sherlock Holmes’ Colin Robertson, presented his theory at a press conference called by now Opposition Leader Brad Battin in 2023.

Cyclist at centre of ‘Bike Boy’ campaign has no control over funds raised for his fight

As the state Liberal leader broke his silence on the Bike Boy campaign, more details have emerged about how funds – and potential court winnings – for the cyclist are being held.

  • Sherryn Groch
A group of people is pushing the narrative that there’s more to the Daniel Andrews bike crash than is publicly said.

The Liberal heavyweights and pandemic agitators driving the ‘Bike Boy’ campaign haunting Daniel Andrews

The Age unveils key players paying the bills and driving the legal campaign that has consistently embroiled the former premier.

  • Sherryn Groch
The Oculus in New York.

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.

  • Chip Le Grand
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Cory Memery at his former home on a Carlton public housing estate.

‘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.

  • Rachel Eddie
New modelling has flagged increases to wholesale electricity prices for the rest of the decade.

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.

  • Kieran Rooney
Building a new home.

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.

  • Kieran Rooney
Claire Courtis-Petrusev and Iggy Courtis with their children Rosa and Wilbur at Surrey Hills Primary School pedestrian crossing.

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.

  • Rachel Eddie, Hannah Kennelly and Kieran Rooney

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