Victoria’s mid-financial-year budget update will reveal the state is on course to record a $9.7 billion deficit in 2022-23,but the Andrews government is adamant its strategy to pay back debt is on track.
Labor enjoyed a shock win in Hawthorn at the 2018 election for the first time in 63 years. But now a “teal” candidate wants to take the seat.
New health data shows soaring numbers of people waited longer than 24 hours for emergency care in Victoria’s hospitals during the twin coronavirus and flu surge over winter.
Residents of a public housing estate in Clifton Hill say raw sewage flowing under the building and into a shared courtyard has been making people sick.
While the premiers put aside their political differences to promise the rebuild,doctors in the region were deflated because their long-standing plan for a new hospital has been quietly shelved.
More than one in five Victorians no longer have confidence in the integrity of the police after a succession of corruption,abuse and misconduct scandals.
The Andrews government has pledged to build 25 new state schools in Victoria by 2026,and expand or upgrade almost 90 others.
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher is insisting Victoria’s Suburban Rail Loop rigorously stacks up with a “very positive” cost-benefit ratio.
Conversations between doctors and patients can be heard through the walls of the dingy Collingwood cohealth centre,which has to close off part of its facility when it rains because the ceiling leaks.
Locals campaigning against higher density in the marginal seat of Ashwood have been organised by an unlikely ally — the former spokesman for the property and building industries.
The Andrews government has drastically wound back a promise to build a transport “super hub” in Sunshine,in a move community groups and the local council say is a missed opportunity to help transform the suburb into the economic powerhouse of Melbourne’s west.