James Hancock is a reporter for ABC News in Victoria.
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| UpdatedVictoria's growing transgender community demands greater action to tackle long public waiting lists to access hormone therapy.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, sexual-health, health, sexuality, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health-administration, government-and-politics, state-parliament, vic, melbourne-3000
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A teen who took part in a violent home invasion in Melbourne's south-east while on bail for the same type of offending, avoids being sent to an adult prison despite the judge saying the victims were left 'emotionally scarred'.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, melbourne-3000, vic
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Mursal Biel, 18 and three other males — who cannot be named for legal reasons — threatened to kill some of their seven victims, "soft targets" who were randomly set upon around Melbourne, a court hears.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, armed-robbery, richmond-3121, southbank-3006
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| UpdatedThe first inmate to be sentenced over the largest prison riot in Victoria's history, which started over a looming smoking ban and caused millions of dollars in damage, has a year added to his minimum jail term.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000
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Victoria Police used taxpayers' money to help pay off a drug dealer's "massive" debts in return for giving evidence at an extortion trial, the County Court has heard.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, crime, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedVictorian man, Fabian Meharry, pleads guilty to almost 200 child sex charges, including rape, causing a child to perform a sexual act with a dog and producing child pornography.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, echuca-3564, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA Melbourne woman admits to defrauding the Commonwealth over a multi-million-dollar day care scam, but her four co-accused deny related charges in court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedA bus driver charged over a crash at the notorious Montague Street bridge in South Melbourne, which injured about a dozen passengers, faces court for the first time over the incident.
Topics: courts-and-trials, melbourne-3000, ballarat-3350
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| UpdatedAn alleged drug trafficker accused of extortion was made to "feel like a goose" when a customer failed to pay for $370,000 worth of cocaine, a Melbourne court is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, crime, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA man who tried to sexually assault a pregnant woman on a Brunswick bike path was using online pornography to try to control his deviant sexual urges, a court is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, brunswick-3056
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| UpdatedCasey Conway represents a triple-threat for organisers of the Northern Territory's latest sexual health campaign - he is a former rugby league player, aboriginal and gay.
Topics: sexual-health, sexually-transmitted-diseases, gays-and-lesbians, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nt, vic
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First-time marathon runner Tom Do Canto says he is "stoked" to have won the 2016 Melbourne Marathon in windy conditions.
Topics: marathon, sport, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedRacing Victoria chairman David Moodie is being investigated in relation to a disclosure involving cobalt doping, the state's racing integrity commissioner says.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA judge fines Hocking Stuart Richmond for underquoting properties, saying consumers were likely to be "significantly inconvenienced, disappointed and deceived".
Topics: courts-and-trials, housing-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedFormer top jockey Danny Nikolic tells a VCAT hearing his attitude to authority has "completely changed" and his licence should be returned, but lawyers for Racing Victoria accuse him of being "evasive".
Topics: courts-and-trials, horse-racing, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe updated plan for the new Fishermans Bend redevelopment puts cars last on the list of transport options, with developers aiming for just one in five trips to be made by private vehicles.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, urban-development-and-planning, port-melbourne-3207
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| UpdatedVictorians brace for powerful winds, heavy rain and possible flash flooding but the intense storm sweeping east from South Australia is expected to weaken as it moves into the state.
Topics: weather, storm-event, vic, melbourne-3000
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Almost 100 tiny-legged dachshunds — including one dressed as a tank — compete in races and a costume contest in Melbourne as part of Oktoberfest celebrations.
Topics: human-interest, animals, offbeat, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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A man accused of taking part in a plot to flee Australia by boat to fight with the Islamic State group is refused bail in Melbourne.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, qld, australia
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| UpdatedThe family of a Melbourne woman found dead in her swimming pool in 2011 vows to keep fighting for justice after an inquest is unable to rule out the prime suspect in her alleged murder.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, community-and-society, wantirna-south-3152
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Victoria's Country Fire Authority will rely on constitutional powers to prove its controversial workplace deal for paid firefighters is lawful, in a case which could set a precedent for organisations in other states.
Topics: state-parliament, emergency-planning, constitution, federal-parliament, federal---state-issues, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, unions, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedMass murderer Julian Knight loses a legal fight to be considered for compensation over abuse he claims he suffered as an army cadet.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedScientists make a major breakthrough in the battle against antibiotic-resistant superbugs by creating molecules which are able to kill the deadly bacteria.
Topics: science-and-technology, health, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe peak body for children in out-of-home care says bureaucracy and unjustified privacy concerns are hampering their efforts to help young people transitioning to independent life.
Topics: government-and-politics, family-and-children, community-and-society, child-abuse, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA Melbourne man loses a three-year legal battle against Wyndham Council that prosecuted him for illegally developing public land around his boat shed in the city's west.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, local-government, werribee-3030