Samantha’s kids were in a Genius childcare,they’ve just pulled their kids out because it is not opening as the management aren’t paying staff.

‘Crumbling’ childcare chain leaves parents in the lurch,staff unpaid

Creditors are circling national chain Genius Childcare as educators refuse to show up and parents are left stranded without care.

  • Nicole Precel andNoel Towell

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Labor’s ‘Strengthening Medicare’ announcement.

As it happened:Coalition match Medicare pledge,as poll shows Labor facing defeat;Ukraine marks three years since Russia’s invasion

Keep up to date on today’s top stories with the national news blog.

  • Josefine Ganko andNicole Precel
Sam Vale of the Windsor Community Children’s Centre and kids Billie,Thea,and Lance.

Melbourne kinder in jeopardy after state rejects plea to buy site

The 47-year-old Windsor Community Children’s Centre faces eviction after the state government refused to buy the land earmarked for sale by Swinburne University.

  • Nicole Precel andMadeleine Heffernan
Children play in a place at Woodlands Early Learning Centre.

Yoga,robotics,pottery:The three-year-olds getting better perks than you

Competition between childcare centres and parents’ appetite for “holistic advancement” for their children is driving offerings upmarket at daycare facilities.

  • Nicole Precel
A dctor injecting a young child with a vaccination

Anti-vax parents share tips online on how to flout no jab,no play childcare laws

Experts have raised the alarm about anti-vaccine networks sharing tactics for skirting Victoria’s no jab,no play laws,while immunisation rates among children continue to decline.

  • Nicole Precel andHenrietta Cook
A child has died at a family childcare centre in Skye,in Melbourne’s south-east.

Infant dies at Melbourne childcare centre

The infant’s death is not being treated as suspicious.

  • Angus Delaney andNicole Precel
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Melbourne Grammar student Edward Millear.

Father’s tribute to the kid everybody loved after school rowing tragedy

Melbourne Grammar School student Edward Millear,17,died after suffering a medical episode while training alongside his rowing team.

  • Alex Crowe,Bridie Smith,Caroline Schelle andNicole Precel
Premier Jacinta Allan,left,and Labor candidate for Werribee John Lister.

Voters abandon Labor in Werribee and Greens in Prahran,but byelections too close to call

Western suburbs voters have hammered the Allan government in Werribee – though they didn’t fully embrace the Liberal Party – while the Greens conceded Prahran was “on a knife’s edge”.

  • Chip Le Grand,Rachel Eddie,Adam Carey andNicole Precel
Voters at the Chapel Street,Windsor polling booth

Crime worries voters in Prahran as volunteers squabble

Many in the small electorate are concerned about community safety,and even on the voting booths tensions were high.

  • Nicole Precel
The inquiry into the police response to domestic violence also revealed damning evidence of how officers treated their own female colleagues.

Campus creeps on notice with anti-sexual violence code

Jobseekers in higher education will be forced to disclose allegations or investigations of sexual harm and universities could be fined if they don’t meet safety standards under a code to prevent gender-based violence on campus.

  • Nicole Precel