Make public transport free for kids, MP says
Young people should travel free on public transport so they can more easily reach school or work and avoid run-ins with ticket inspectors, Sex Party MP Fiona Patten says.
Benjamin is The Age's education reporter.
Young people should travel free on public transport so they can more easily reach school or work and avoid run-ins with ticket inspectors, Sex Party MP Fiona Patten says.
Three people have lost their lives in the unprecedented thunderstorm asthma epidemic which struck Melbourne on Monday.
Two people from Melbourne's west have died, including one man forced to wait at least half an hour for an ambulance, after an unprecedented number of people fell acutely sick on Monday evening, in what is believed to be a mass incident of 'thunderstorm asthma'.
One Nation and Derryn Hinch are preparing an assault on the Victorian parliament, aiming to capitalise on disillusionment with mainstream politics.
A long-running battle pitting one of Victoria's best-known musicians against horseracing royalty has flared over new restrictions governing horse training access to a stunning stretch of coastline.
Wicked Campers' sexually derogatory slogans could be driven off road and images including those plastered on Wicked Campers could soon be banned under a state government push to stamp out sexist advertising in Victoria.
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.
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