The deputy state coroner will examine a decade’s worth of crashes and near misses at the intersection of Murray Valley Highway and Labuan Road as part of the investigation.
Police decisions made during the search for Colleen South,in Victoria’s north-west last year,will be scrutinised after it was revealed force command knocked back requests to take carriage of the investigation or deploy the air wing to help.
The sister of a man whose body was found near a Bellarine Peninsula beach says she is elated Victoria’s coroner has ordered police to re-examine his unexplained death.
A coroner investigating the death of cyclist Angus Collins in Footscray this year has called on Victoria’s transport department to urgently address dual green light configurations at intersections.
A Victorian health service has recruited a law firm to investigate the identity of bones found in Box Hill Hospital this year,and how and when they got there.
More than 100 at-risk children have no caseworker as child protection offices in Horsham,Hamilton and Portland have not been fully staffed for two years.
Martin ‘Marty’ Sheahan hadn’t seen his former colleague for seven years the day the 64-year-old turned up at his home,shooting him twice with a sawn off shotgun through his front stained-glass window.
Doctors failed to identify that Annie Moylan,unwell and 18 weeks pregnant,was suffering from sepsis before it was too late.
In Victoria,about 2000 child protection workers can face 25,000 open cases at any one time. The State Coroner is looking into four cases that ended in death.
Bail changes introduced by this government are the harshest in the country and have resulted in a soaring prison population,many of whom are Aboriginal.
A Victorian coroner has slammed the state’s bail laws as a “complete,unmitigated disaster” and called for an overhaul. Here’s how the laws currently work.