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How Victorian power companies could be forced to pay you for blackouts

How Victorian power companies could be forced to pay you for blackouts

A review into storms that cut power to 530,000 homes has called for energy distributors – not governments – to compensate customers who lose power.

  • by Kieran Rooney

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Victoria’s primary care clinics face funding cuts in budget crisis
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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
‘Thrilled’: Workers claim win after sackings from Black Star Pastry for wearing keffiyehs

‘Thrilled’: Workers claim win after sackings from Black Star Pastry for wearing keffiyehs

The high-end bakery that sacked two baristas for wearing keffiyehs to work has settled the discrimination case under confidential terms. The workers are claiming victory.

  • by Charlotte Grieve
Cash for access: Councillors ask corruption watchdog to investigate scheme
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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
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
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry makes millions from increasing certificate fees in cost-of-living crisis

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry makes millions from increasing certificate fees in cost-of-living crisis

The Greens will introduce a bill in the next sitting week in an attempt to block further privatisation of government services.

  • by Broede Carmody
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Measures meant to protect our last grasslands are seeing them trashed
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Measures meant to protect our last grasslands are seeing them trashed

Thirty-six conservation areas in Melbourne’s growth corridor contain some of the last intact grasslands in Australia, but just three are in good health.

  • by Adam Carey
Here’s what you’ll be paying more for from today

Here’s what you’ll be paying more for from today

Water bills, car registration and a levy on ride-share and taxi trips are among the areas hit with price rises.

  • by Broede Carmody and Kieran Rooney
Miscalculation leaves Melton $224m short for roads, kindergartens, bridges, bike trails

Miscalculation leaves Melton $224m short for roads, kindergartens, bridges, bike trails

Home prices in Melbourne’s outer west will rise by as much as $25,000 as developers look to pass on an increased levy for infrastructure in emerging suburbs.

  • by Adam Carey
Amnesty plea to allow medicinal cannabis users behind the wheel

Amnesty plea to allow medicinal cannabis users behind the wheel

A growing number of Victorians have been prescribed the treatment, but risk breaking the law if they use it.

  • by Kieran Rooney
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