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Compromise will be key for Allan to manage youth crime
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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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Funding alone is not the magic bullet in fixing Victoria’s hospital crisis

Funding alone is not the magic bullet in fixing Victoria’s hospital crisis

No amount of funding will improve service delivery if we cannot find nurses to fill positions under current conditions and improve healthcare culture.

  • by John Wilson
Premier reverses hospital bailout decision but health services sceptical

Premier reverses hospital bailout decision but health services sceptical

Jacinta Allan’s new stance comes after hospital insiders warned of bed closures, surgery delays and even the end of vital services across Victoria’s health system.

  • by Broede Carmody
Airport rail now hinges on who pays the extra $3 billion to build it

Airport rail now hinges on who pays the extra $3 billion to build it

The proposed rail link to Melbourne Airport depends on whether the state and federal governments can agree on additional funding.

  • by Broede Carmody and Kieran Rooney
Victoria’s primary care clinics face funding cuts in budget crisis
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Healthcare

Victoria’s primary care clinics face funding cuts in budget crisis

Priority primary care clinics, promised in 2022 as Daniel Andrews’ solution to the health crisis, are facing cutbacks as the Victorian budget grapples with debt.

  • by Rachel Eddie and Kieran Rooney
Victorian politicians get 3.5 per cent pay rise

Victorian politicians get 3.5 per cent pay rise

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan will earn almost half a million dollars a year as MPs in the state received their second 3.5 per cent pay rise in two years.

  • by Rachel Eddie
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The inside story of Labor’s sudden change of heart on pill testing

The inside story of Labor’s sudden change of heart on pill testing

Under Daniel Andrews, pill testing was a non-starter. Jacinta Allan made it permanent within months. Summer overdoses were a big reason why.

  • by Rachel Eddie
Secret recording reveals sense of budget crisis in Victorian hospitals
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Hospitals

Secret recording reveals sense of budget crisis in Victorian hospitals

Bed and ward closures, reducing elective surgery, cancelling breast screenings and even closing special-care cots were all openly discussed as possibilities to save money.

  • by Chip Le Grand, Jewel Topsfield, Henrietta Cook, Benjamin Preiss and Broede Carmody
‘Streamline that spending’: Hospitals told to cut back where they can

‘Streamline that spending’: Hospitals told to cut back where they can

The health minister’s comments come after two of Victoria’s largest health services imposed immediate hiring freezes in response to the government’s demand for savings.

  • by Broede Carmody
Hostile to elated: Nurses overwhelmingly approve new pay deal

Hostile to elated: Nurses overwhelmingly approve new pay deal

Victorian nurses and midwives have backed the 28.4 per cent pay rise over four years. The deal ends months of tense talks between their union and the government.

  • by Henrietta Cook
No hospital closures? Country Victorians can smell a dead rat
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Healthcare

No hospital closures? Country Victorians can smell a dead rat

I can assure you, regional Victorians are not fools. We have a special relationship with our health services and we know the damage that funding cuts will wreak on our communities.

  • by Jan Beer