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Latest news and comment on the Australian state of Victoria
  • The 'felt grid' of reports to Geoscience Australia following a 4.1 magnitude earthquake early on the morning of 7 August 2024 centred on Woods Point in eastern Victoria, Australia

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    Australia news live: magnitude 4.1 earthquake in Victoria’s east; four foreign fishing vessels intercepted off WA

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  • Lual Akech

    A father’s quest for answers after police botched investigation into son’s death

    ‘Are we not human?’ asks Lual Akech. He believes his son’s African background is one of the reasons Victoria police have not solved his alleged murder almost five years on
    • Family violence and childhoods lost: census shows ‘horrifying’ plight of homeless youths in Melbourne

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      How a botched murder investigation left two families broken – Full Story podcast

    • Higgins’ communications with fundraising page subpoenaed by Reynolds’ legal team – as it happened

  • The county court building in Melbourne

    Flawed Aguer Akech investigation shows why Victoria’s blanket suppression law is not fit for purpose

    Well-meaning law designed to protect children prevents a basic function of investigative journalism – holding people to account
  • Artwork from a screengrab of CCTV footage from NSW police and AAP image of the scene

    A botched murder investigation left a family broken and a 15-year-old boy in jail for a year

    Police used flawed identification evidence against a suspect in the 2019 stabbing of a Melbourne teenager but deny the investigation was ‘improperly conducted’
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      Senator gives evidence at defamation trial – as it happened

    • Legionnaires outbreak: Australians are contracting the lung disease, what is it and do I need to worry?

    • Likely source of legionnaires’ disease outbreak identified after 78 cases and two deaths recorded in Melbourne

  • The patient, who does not want to be identified, claims the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) replacement performed by Dr George Dimitroulis left her unable to work and with chronic pain.

    Melbourne surgeon failed to tell patient he invented ‘experimental’ device used to replace jaw joints, court documents claim

    Dr George Dimitroulis, who is being sued in a Victorian court by a former patient, denies any injuries were caused by negligence or the prosthesis
  • Legionella

    Second person dies after being diagnosed with legionnaires’ disease amid Melbourne outbreak

  • Ruqia Haidari.

    ‘We failed’: how the tragic case of Ruqia Haidari could change the way Australia deals with forced marriage

  • Victoria’s chief health officer Dr Clare Looker

    Victoria records 71 legionnaires’ disease cases and outbreak’s first death as search for source narrows

    Chief health officer Clare Looker says woman in her 90s died after becoming ill on Tuesday as others in intensive care battle severe pneumonia
  • Vaping

    Cannabis vapes in Australia containing opioids spark calls for better access to anti-overdose drugs

    Vaping synthetic opiods can cause overdose or unconsciousness within minutes and from just six puffs, Victorian medical expert says
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    Ex-Australia Post employee and friend plead guilty in Australian of the Year insider information betting scandal

    The men faced a Melbourne court after being charged following a three-year investigation by federal police into gambling on the annual awards
  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan

    Melbourne’s ‘explosive’ legionnaires’ disease outbreak surges to 60 confirmed cases

    Victorian premier says hunt for contaminated water source continues as number of cases rises by 20
  • Statue of the Greek Goddess of Justice.

    Murder accused claims self-defence over killing of wife Nelomie Perera in front of their children

    Dinush Kurera has pleaded not guilty to murder and assaulting his son after wife’s 2022 death in Melbourne home
  • Intruder alert! Curious foxes break into the Melbourne metro tunnel – video

    A 'quick toot' from one of the test trains ensured the two four-legged intruders made it out safely
  • Red, orange and yellow night sky from the aurora australis (southern lights) over water

    Technicolour skies glow across Australia and NZ as solar flares trigger aurora australis

    Observations of spectacular southern lights phenomenon recorded from Tasmania and Melbourne to Western Australia
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