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Victoria
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Victorian budget
The budget is brimming with hairy-chested spin. But the reality is far more nuanced
Treasurer Tim Pallas says the budget aims to tackle two really big problems: high inflation and workforce shortages. But if you take the coming financial year as a benchmark, the reality is far more nuanced.
- by Josh Gordon
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Victorian budget
The boastful Daniel Andrews tweet that is no longer fit for purpose
Soft tacos or crunchy tacos? We have to choose because Victoria can’t have both - despite promises from now-departed premier Daniel Andrews.
- by Annika Smethurst
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Victorian budget
How much money COVID-19 era taxes are raking in for Victoria
These graphs break down expected sources of tax revenue, whether the budget will be in deficit over the coming years and the scale of Victoria’s debt.Â
- by Craig Butt
First home buyers scheme to be scrapped in Victoria
A shared equity scheme that has helped thousands of Victorians buy a home will end next year, replaced by a pledged national scheme that hasn’t passed parliament.
- by Adam Carey
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Roads
Road projects such as Western Freeway upgrade in doubt on state budget eve
An Albanese government commitment to return funding for nationally significant roads to 50:50 splits between both levels of government has thrown doubt over timelines for Victorian projects not yet underway.
- by Kieran Rooney and Broede Carmody
A Grampians town’s remarkable recovery after ‘the beast’ burnt through
A bushfire wiped out one-third of the tiny Grampians town of Pomonal 12 weeks ago. The town knew about resilience before the fire hit, and now it’s putting it into action.
- by Clay Lucas
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Housing crisis
Daniel Andrews promised a new body to help renters. No one seems to know much about it
Government emails released under freedom-of-information laws show state bureaucrats couldn’t answer basic questions about Rental Dispute Resolution Victoria – after it had been announced.
- by Broede Carmody
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Coronavirus pandemic
The day Victoria’s hotel quarantine court case went bust
How did WorkSafe Victoria and the Office of Public Prosecutions get such a high-profile case so wrong?
- by Chip Le Grand
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Cybersecurity
Mass hack exposes more than 60,000, including victims of family violence, sex assault
The National Cybersecurity Co-ordinator says other government agencies have been hit in the cyberattack.
- by Kieran Rooney
Women aren’t just dying, they’re being deliberately injured, too
The only nurse working at a family violence crisis centre has noticed a horrendous trend.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Indigenous
How Indigenous people got zilch from a billion-dollar mining bonanza
The ‘stark reality’ of economic exclusion imposed on Victoria’s First Peoples has been laid bare in evidence presented to the Yoorrook Justice Commission.
- by Jack Latimore