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Victoria’s local public health units opened during the pandemic.

‘People are going to die’: Funding doubt over state’s frontline public health defence

The Victorian government refuses to guarantee the future of local public health units that were crucial to the state’s pandemic fight, igniting concerns about more budget cuts to an already stretched health service.

  • Chip Le Grand, Henrietta Cook and Broede Carmody

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Premier Jacinta Allan, Housing and Building Minister Harriet Shing, and then premier Daniel Andrews.

Victoria falls 20,000 short on home-building target

New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown the Victorian government falling well short of its building target of 80,000 homes a year.

  • Rachel Eddie
The government is not going to try to recoup the cash.

Businesses can keep nearly $20 million in mistaken grants

Almost $20 million in grants were wrongly paid to about 2000 commercial landlords and small to medium-sized businesses.

  • Rachel Eddie
Premier Jacinta Allan and Minister for Victims Anthony Carbines.

Victims of crime at risk as counsellors left unpaid

Psychologists and counsellors say they are being forced to choose between abandoning their patients or working without pay under the state’s new scheme for treating victims of crime.

  • Rachel Eddie
Mary Parfrey (right) and Looise Fumberger at Holden Street Neighbourhood house in Fitzroy North.

Food banks, homeless services fear funding axe as horror Victorian budget looms

Community organisations providing relief to vulnerable Victorians have been told tough decisions will be made in the May state budget.

  • Daniella White
Breakthrough Victoria

State-backed fund faces chop after pumping millions into failed medical company

The state’s $2 billion venture capital play Breakthrough Victoria is under mounting pressure to convince the Allan government it isn’t broken.

  • Chip Le Grand
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Michael Hand hopes the case will help prevent junior doctors from burning out.

Exhausted junior doctors who didn’t claim overtime win $175m in backpay

About 15,000 doctors who worked at 36 Victorian health services since January 2015 will be sent unpaid wages after a landmark legal win.

  • Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
Cory Memery at his former home on a Carlton public housing estate.

‘I thought we’d look after people’: 60,000 homes needed for vulnerable Victorians

Advocate Cory Memery says the government can’t “wash its hands” of vulnerable Victorians, and that any new investment – like the $30 billion build recommended by Infrastructure Victoria – should be for state-managed public housing.

  • Rachel Eddie
Schools were overwhelmed by questions from exasperated parents when the voucher launched.

‘I can’t pay wages’: Unpaid school bonus bills leave uniform shops reeling

Uniform shops have demanded the state government pay up after being left tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket by tardy payments under the $400 School Saving Bonus scheme.

  • Rachel Eddie and Alex Crowe
Premier Jacinta Allan

Rail loop cash grants came with catch: don’t criticise the government

Local charities, schools and sporting clubs that won grants had to sign agreements barring them from disparaging the Suburban Rail Loop or doing anything to damage the Victorian government’s name.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie

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