Premier refers CFMEU to IBAC, Victorian branch placed into administration
Jacinta Allan has referred allegations of criminal behaviour inside the CFMEU to Victoria Police and the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission.
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Uni’s ‘campus occupiers’ face discipline probe
Pro-Palestinian student activists who occupied parts of the Melbourne University campus in May may escape with a warning as a disciplinary hearing determines their academic future.
‘$10 coffees?’: Hospitality sinking amid hostile waves
Could you soon pay $100 for steak & chips? As hospitality businesses fail at nearly twice the rate of a decade earlier, industry players sound a warning on cafes and restaurants.
Backflip: Andrews agrees to hand over phone records from collision with cyclist
Daniel Andrews’ phone records from the day his wife hit a 15-year-old cyclist with the family car in 2013, leaving him with a punctured lung and broken ribs, will be handed into the Supreme Court.
Curfew on cards after youths attack off-duty police
A group of 20 male youths allegedly assaulted and robbed four off-duty police officers, in a week of escalating violence in Alice Springs.
Woman’s body put in bin
Staff at a waste management facility in Epping made the grisly discovery on Wednesday and called police.
Water torture awaits crims thanks to AFP divers’ skills
Criminals hiding bodies, murder weapons, cars and other crucial evidence in water have been put on notice as the AFP plunges into an Australian-first diving and forensics program.
Anti-protest laws need ‘immediate attention’
A new report says people’s ability to gather and speak out on issues has steadily eroded, as the president of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network called it ‘chilling’ protests are being criminalised.
‘Inherent constraints’ on trial system reform
Peter Kidd says fundamental legal principals limit how far the criminal system can go to improve a sexual assault complainant’s justice needs, and that a trial cannot go ahead on the basis the accuser is to be believed.
Death in custody ‘preventable’
A Victorian coroner has ruled the death of Indigenous man Joshua Kerr at Port Phillip Prison was preventable and that security concerns were placed above the prisoner’s medical needs.
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