Opinion
Crime
Compromise will be key for Allan to manage youth crime
Competing priorities within the Victorian government could see the push for stronger punishments on youth crime at loggerheads with ambitions for reform.
- by Annika Smethurst
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‘Everything is on the table’: Premier to meet police, courts on youth crime
Premier Jacinta Allan will sit down with stakeholders next week after conceding there was “more to do” on repeat young offenders.
- by Rachel Eddie, Kieran Rooney and Annika Smethurst
Tougher bail rules, ankle monitors: Victoria flags youth crime crackdown
Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes says nothing is off the table as she meets with police, legal advocates and community groups over public concerns about young repeat offenders.
- by Kieran Rooney, Annika Smethurst and Wendy Tuohy
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Local council
Cash for access: Councillors ask corruption watchdog to investigate scheme
Most Port Phillip councillors want IBAC to investigate a donation scheme set up to fund a community group that financially backs two of their colleagues.
- by Annika Smethurst and Kieran Rooney
Labor branch in open revolt over ‘parachute’ candidate
The rank and file in Melbourne’s outer north are threatening to quit if they are blocked from picking a replacement for outgoing MP Maria Vamvakinou.
- by Annika Smethurst
Opinion
Nuclear energy
Dutton’s nuclear play is delighting his Victorian opponents
There remains a broad level of interest in nuclear technology in Victoria, but the evidence is that many voters remain undecided.
- by Annika Smethurst
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Hospitals
Renamed hospital might be moved rather than rebuilt where it was promised
Labor had pledged rebuilding the Maroondah Hospital on its existing site. But the costs involved mean it could be rebuilt near a shopping centre or on land once used as a drive-in.
- by Annika Smethurst and Kieran Rooney
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Tobacco
Smoke taxes driving people towards black market – and smoking rates up
Analysis shows high cigarette prices will continue pushing people towards the illicit tobacco trade, amid surging rates of vaping.
- by Kieran Rooney and Annika Smethurst
Pokies clubs are meant to use a tax break for good. But this is what they spent $242m on
Hundreds of millions of dollars is meant to go back to the communities that host Victorian pokies clubs, in return for a lucrative tax break.
- by Annika Smethurst
Housing plan ‘pressures inner city and fringe, spares middle Melbourne’
Infrastructure targets and plans for green space and community buildings are also needed, say experts.
- by Annika Smethurst
Pill-testing plan to stop ‘horror’ of teenagers overdosing: Premier
A proposal for a year-long pill-testing trial in Victoria will be considered by cabinet after Premier Jacinta Allan called overdoses of teens at festivals an “unimaginable” horror.
- by Annika Smethurst and Ashleigh McMillan