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Police Recruit Numbers 06/01/2023

Victoria Police is fighting for numbers and the force is struggling for recruits after almost one in nine officers left since 2019. 

New research has found a twelve-second voice ­recording could be used to work out whether people are drunk,  

More than $69m allocated to fix dangerous black spots on roads across the country has been ripped out of the budget by the Albanese government amid a spike in fatalities and serious accidents. 

The tax office is coming for Australia’s multimillion-dollar ­influencer industry with a promise to tax social media stars on gifts from companies, make them pay GST and stamp out bogus deductions. 

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