The Andrews'governments industrial manslaughter laws come into effect on Tuesday,with bosses to face a maximum 25 years in jail over worker deaths.
Business owners who underpay workers in Victoria risk being prosecuted twice for the same offence once the Andrews government criminalises wage theft,experts say.
Victoria will introduce new laws that prevent an individual's historical criminal record from showing up in a police check after a set period of time if they don't reoffend.
After widespread outrage,JIll Hennessy asked Governor-General David Hurley to overturn the decision in a letter to him on Tuesday.
Federal and state governments have taken a major step towards revamping Australian outdated defamation laws.
Criminals'last ditch efforts to overturn miscarriages of justice will be taken out of the hands of politicians and sent back to the courts under new laws.
Staff say parts of the hospital were thrown into chaos when power was lost on Monday. Authorities will now probe why parts of the back-up system failed.
Respected former Supreme Court Judge Betty King is the inaugural chair of the voluntary assisted dying review board.
The national shortage of influenza vaccines continues to drag on,with all stock now severely restricted.
Victoria has some of the lowest perinatal death rates in the country,but some mothers are still being left traumatised by their hospital experiences.
Ambulance Victoria is reporting its best patient outcomes in history,but some patients are upset about being denied an emergency response.