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Tricia Rivera is a reporter at the Melbourne bureau of The Australian. She joined the paper after completing News Corp Australia’s national cadet program with stints in the national broadsheet’s Sydney and Brisbane newsrooms.

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STATE CONFERENCENation

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos - 18 MAY 2024: Pro-Palestine protesters are seen in a confrontation with members of Victoria Police as they attempted to enter the Moonee Valley Racecourse as the ALP Conference occurred inside. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Diego Fedele

Labor moves controversial Gaza motions

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan says she is ‘disgusted’ by the pro-Palestine activists who gatecrashed the Victorian Labor State conference as six contentious motions on Gaza were carried.

Tricia Rivera and Damon Johnston

Melbourne UniversityHigher Education

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, MAY 17, 2024. Pro Palestine protesters continue to occupy the Arts Building at Melbourne University. Students gather to listen to a press conference outside the building. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Crosling

Student activists refuse to budge

A meeting between University of Melbourne executives and student activists on Friday has failed to resolve an impasse, as protesters threaten to continue their occupation of a university building.

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Pro Palestine protesters take over the Arts West building at Melbourne UNI Campus. On day two of their occupation of the building. Students Have Renamed The Hall Mahmoud Hall. Picture: Jason Edwards

Unis move to end ‘intimidatory’ protests

Students at Melbourne Uni remain defiant as administrators look to end a three-day sit in, while the University of Queensland says it ‘intends to discontinue’ the camps.

Tricia Rivera, Noah Yim and Mohammad Alfares

UnisHigher Education

Pro-Palestinian students hold a sit-in in Melbourne on May 15, 2024 at Melbourne University's Arts West building, which the students have temporarily renamed as

Plea to enforce law on campus

The Zionist Federation of Australia is urging police to enforce the law on university campuses that are determined to eradicate anti-Semitism.

Tricia Rivera and John Ferguson

PROTESTSNation

15-05-2024 - Students sympathetic to Palestine have occupied the Arts West Building of University of Melbourne campus.

Police on standby over campus building sit-in

Pro-Palestinian students have taken over a University of Melbourne building, forcing classes to be cancelled and triggering uni chiefs to threaten that police may be called in.

Tricia Rivera and Noah Yim

MonashHigher Education

Pro-Palestine protesters set to disrupt Israel event (their Remembrance Day) commemorating war heroes at Monash Uni Clayton. Picture: David Caird

Rival groups face off on campus

Tensions were running high at Monash University on Monday night as rival pro-Palestinian and pro-Jewish student activists staged events at the campus.

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Activists gather to protest Israel uni event

Student activists at Monash University chant ‘Albanese, Albanese, genocide won’t go easy’ as they rally against an Israel remembrance day event on campus.

Tricia Rivera and Clareese Packer

InfrastructurePolitics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos May 09, 2024: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets workers at the North East link construction site at Watsonia. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

PM orders airport to ‘get serious’ over rail link

Anthony Albanese has weighed into the public dispute between Victorian Labor and Melbourne Airport over an airport rail link in the city, demanding the private operators ‘get serious’ to deliver the project.

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VICTORIAN BUDGETPolitics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire - 06 MAY, 2024: Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas poses for a photograph at the Department of Treasury and Finance Victoria in Melbourne, Monday, May 6, 2024. Treasurer Tim Pallas will deliver his 10th state budget on Tuesday. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Diego Fedele

Treasurer focuses on upside of debt dive

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas has tried to justify the state’s skyrocketing debt levels, and says some debt could help generate economic activity.

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Victorian BudgetNation

CEO of Melbourne Airport Lyell Strambi on the tarmac. The airport needs to extend its runways to accomodate the increased demand for air travel. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

King reiterates $5bn pledge for airport rail link

Federal Labor backs Melbourne Airport rail link and renews $5bn promise towards cost.

Robyn Ironside, Damon Johnston and Tricia Rivera

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