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‘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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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
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- Government grants
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
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- Mental health
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
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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
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- Funding
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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- Healthcare
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
‘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
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- Education
‘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
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- Rail
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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