Farrah Tomazin is The Sunday Age's state political editor. Farrah joined the paper in 2000, reporting on general news, courts and crime, local government and state politics. She was The Age's state political correspondent ahead the 2006 Victorian election, and later spent three years as education editor before becoming a feature writer on Victorian affairs. She returned to the state rounds press gallery for The Sunday Age in 2011.
More homeless people will get secure accommodation as the Andrews government embarks on a multi-million-dollar "rapid housing blitz" to tackle the number of Victorians sleeping rough or in temporary dwellings.
News that yet another state MP is battling breast cancer has reignited fears about a possible link with the Victorian Parliament, where a forensic review recently found "a greater than expected number of cases".
The Andrews government has been warned it will damn a generation of Aboriginal families to a cycle of incarceration if it pushes ahead with a contentious proposal to put teen offenders into adult jails.
Former judges, child welfare groups, and human rights advocates have slammed a proposal by both major parties to send teenage criminals to adult jails as a way of cracking down on youth crime.
The Andrews government has backed plans for a sweeping review into police brutality amid growing concerns about a spike in the number of claims made by young people.
TEEN criminals could increasingly be locked up in adult jails under a contentious policy shift being considered by both major parties to tackle Victoria's alarming rates of youth offending.
Embattled Labor minister Steve Herbert has no plans to resign, despite embarrassing revelations he failed to declare a country property that his dogs were chauffeured to in a government car.
It's the bayside electorate that takes in some of Melbourne's most affluent suburbs.
Under proposed reforms introduced by the Andrews government, the ability of faith-based organisations to discriminate against staff on the basis of gender, sexuality or marital status would be weakened.
Residents could be forced to move out of their homes while the Melbourne Metro Rail project is built, but they are yet to be told where they would go or how long for.
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