A uniquely Victorian problem:Inside fight to save the state’s triple-zero service

The story of the breakdown of Victoria’s triple-zero ambulance system is complicated and multi-faceted – ESTA lost its identity as a vital emergency service and the government lost sight of the vital role the agency played.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey andMelissa Cunningham

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In Bali 2002 Richard Roxburgh plays Graham Ashton,who led the international investigating team.

Bali bombing top cop confident new TV drama will get it right

Richard Roxburgh plays Graham Ashton in the new four-part series dropping on September 25,three weeks shy of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack.

  • Karl Quinn
Slater and Gordon has abandoned plans to pursue a class action against the state’s triple-zero authority.

It shouldn’t have taken a crisis to fix triple zero,says union

The Ambulance Union says minimum safe staffing levels should have been in place before the pandemic,as the government promises to release the latest review into ESTA.

  • Aisha Dow andRachel Eddie
Dinner plans:Jeanne Pratt .

Wanted:Cooker,some pressure

High stakes culinary role up for grabs at one of Melbourne’s most famous mansions.

  • Noel Towell andSamantha Hutchinson
Nicola Gobbo outside the Supreme Court in 2004,at the height of her criminal defence career.

Damning report says top police'lacked moral clarity'to fix Gobbo mess

Royal commission has delivered a damning assessment of Victoria Police's recruitment and management of barrister-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo.

  • Cameron Houston
Nicola Gobbo,the former barrister who became a police informer.

The Nicola Gobbo,Lawyer X scandal explained

Who is Nicola Gobbo? What did she do? Why was it so bad? And what has the royal commission's final report found?

  • Tammy Mills
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Victoria's Chief Health Officer,Brett Sutton.

Previously withheld hotel quarantine emails show Sutton's turf war with emergency managers

Victoria’s health department has been forced to release emails previously withheld from the hotel quarantine inquiry that reveal a bitter internal turf war about who should have been in charge.

  • Richard Baker,Tammy Mills,Michael Fowler andChip Le Grand
Reece Kershaw

Victoria Police told in March police and ADF to provide quarantine security:AFP

AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw says a meeting of state police commissioners prior to March 27 discussed the expectation that police and the ADF would be used for hotel quarantine.

  • Anthony Galloway
Former police chief Graham Ashton.

The six missing minutes at the heart of the hotel quarantine mystery

On a hectic day,the decision to put private security guards in hotel quarantine seemed to emerge from nowhere. The inquiry has narrowed that decision down to a series of texts and six minutes of nothing.

  • Michael Bachelard
Former police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton

Hotel inquiry still in the dark about security guards in quarantine

Text messages,meeting notes and phone calls involving former police chief Graham Ashton show how rushed the decisions were but do not reveal who made them.

  • Michael Bachelard andTammy Mills