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Ride-share drivers are not required to have working with children checks.

Teacher suspended over sexual misconduct allegations working as ride-share driver

Taxi and ride-share drivers in Victoria are subject to police and background checks, but only those who regularly transport children may also be required to hold a working with children check.

  • Madeleine Heffernan

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Paula says she had Uber rides cancelled 32 times because she has guide dog. The company is blaming the drivers

Paula Hobley has had so many Uber drivers cancel trips on her after they learn she is travelling with her guide dog that she now reconsiders going out.

  • Elias Visontay
Wimbledon Village.

It’s 2am and Nick Kyrgios wants to kick on. Welcome to Wimbledon Village

Tennis fans from across the globe descend on Wimbledon daily, but locals leave the area in droves, with some private houses rented for more than $30,000 a month.

  • Marc McGowan
A shake-up is coming for Uber drivers’ pay and conditions.

‘We create loyalty’: Uber flips food delivery on its head to keep you coming back

The rideshare and food delivery giant is pitching itself around the world as a solution to the cost-of-living crisis.

  • Jessica Yun
David Ansett

Australians are ‘addicted’ to food delivery – and it’s hurting some local restaurants

The thriving business of UberEats, Door Dash and Menulog is “kind of a double-edged sword”.

  • Gemma Grant
Some taxi drivers are attempting to impose greatly inflated prices for short trips.

‘Two strikes’ policy for dodgy taxi drivers as Victoria moves to clean up industry

Taxi and ride-share drivers who break the rules multiple times will have their licences suspended or cancelled under a two-strikes policy to be legislated by the Allan government.

  • Kieran Rooney, Brittany Busch and Nick McKenzie
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Unable to find a safe way home, Audrey Griffiths was murdered.

Adrian Torrens had been threatening to kill his ex: Hours later, he would instead kill a complete stranger

Many who live on the Central Coast say one simple, affordable thing could have protected Audrey Griffin.

  • Jordan Baker and Riley Walter
A shake-up is coming for Uber drivers’ pay and conditions.

The major shake-up coming for how Uber drivers are paid

New laws would give gig-economy workers in the transport industry the power to argue for minimum pay and conditions such as penalty rates.

  • Michael McGowan

I can’t wait for driverless taxis to arrive in Australia

They’re becoming more commonplace in the US, and I can’t wait to hail my first driverless cab.

  • Gary Nunn
Ezra Mam has allegedly returned a positive result for a drug test following a car crash in Brisbane in October.

Broncos’ Ezra Mam charged over drug test result after Uber crash

Mam was driving a Ford Ranger when it and an Uber carrying a mother and her four-year-old daughter collided in Brisbane last month.

  • Cloe Read

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