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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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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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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 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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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
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
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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
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
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