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Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas has previously suggested that hospitals have the resources they need to meet compliance costs.

Hospitals insist on extra cash to aid shake-up as state tightens belt

The state’s hospitals say they need hundreds of millions to realise the new health service networks, but the timing could be tricky.

  • Broede Carmody

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Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Jaclyn Symes (left) announce an independent review.

Jac the Knife: New treasurer signals major budget surgery

Treasurer Jaclyn Symes spent her summer studying the state’s books. She is deeply troubled by what she found.

  • Chip Le Grand
Treasurer Jaclyn Symes and Premier Jacinta Allan announce the review on Thursday.

Facing the chop: State public service review to target highest-paid bureaucrats

Between 2000 and 3000 people are expected to lose their jobs, saving the state government billions of dollars, Treasurer Jaclyn Symes says.

  • Rachel Eddie, Hannah Hammoud and Chip Le Grand
Premier Jacinta Allan at one of the new Metro Tunnel stations earlier this month.

Cost of Victoria’s major projects jumps $11.6 billion in a year

The auditor-general has found that 53 of 113 major state projects would cost a combined $14.9 billion more than first budgeted.

  • Rachel Eddie
Victorian Treasurer Jaclyn Symes, pictured with Premier Jacinta Allan, has sought advice about her government’s use of treasurer’s advances.

Integrity experts call it a $12b slush fund. Now the new treasurer is asking questions

Jaclyn Symes has questioned her own government’s use of treasurer’s advances after integrity experts described Victoria’s approach as manifestly out of step with other Australian jurisdictions.

  • Chip Le Grand
The increase in the congestion levy is designed to reduce the amount of traffic in inner Melbourne.

Parking to get more expensive as congestion levy rises 79 per cent

A hike in the levy to deter motorists from Melbourne’s CBD and inner suburbs has been lashed by a peak lobby group as ineffective.

  • Carla Jaeger and Kieran Rooney
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Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan (right) speaks to the media after Jaclyn Symes was sworn in as the state’s new treasurer.

Allan shuffles the deck in hopes of a better hand in 2026

The premier has used her first major cabinet reshuffle to elevate housing as a policy priority before the next state election and cement the key role of women in her frontbench.

  • Rachel Eddie and Kieran Rooney
Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Tim Pallas on Monday.

With state byelections looming, there is no clear successor to Pallas

Some frontbenchers are emerging as possible replacements for the retiring treasurer.

  • Rachel Eddie and Kieran Rooney
Former members of the Geelong Revival Centre are pushing for a widening of coercive control laws to cover cults and changes to the tax breaks afforded to religious groups.

Call to outlaw ‘coercive’ cults, stop financial secrecy for extreme churches

Revelations about alleged abuse and other disturbing behaviour at a secretive Pentecostal church have sparked calls for reform.

  • Richard Baker
Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes.

Tougher bail rules, ankle monitors: Victoria flags youth crime crackdown

Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes says nothing is off the table as she meets with police, legal advocates and community groups over public concerns about young repeat offenders.

  • Kieran Rooney, Annika Smethurst and Wendy Tuohy

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