Rail meltdown ignites calls to move control centre to secure location
Pressure is mounting on the state government to move the metropolitan rail system's control centre to prevent network paralysis brought on by minor faults.
Benjamin is The Age's education reporter.
Pressure is mounting on the state government to move the metropolitan rail system's control centre to prevent network paralysis brought on by minor faults.
Police have resisted suggestions that public drunkenness be decriminalised, despite Victoria's anti-corruption commission saying the government should consider a change to those laws.
Workers appear set to win public holiday pay rates on Christmas Day after all with the Andrews government on the cusp of caving to intense union pressure.
Embattled Andrews government minister Steve Herbert has resigned over the ongoing scandal of the use of his ministerial car to ferry his two pet dogs around.
Embattled Labor MP Steve Herbert has paid back $192.80 to cover the cost of "one possibly two" trips to chauffeur his dogs between two properties at taxpayer expense.
A CBD development with more than 600 apartments, retail and a childcare centre will contribute more than $1 million for social housing.
Hazelwood workers will leave their jobs next year with an average company payout of $330,000, as the Andrews government moves to stave off a jobs crisis in the Latrobe Valley with a $266 million rescue plan.
Business will be lured to the Latrobe Valley with tax breaks and cash grants as part of a major $266 million Victorian rescue package to cushion the blow following the closure of the Hazelwood power plant.
Hazelwood power station will operate until the end of March next year and then shut down quickly after that, workers have been told.
Brunswick MP Jane Garrett has revealed she has breast cancer.
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