Royce Millar is an investigative journalist with a special interest in public policy and government decision-making. His move to the investigative unit in 2008 followed a three-year stint as city editor overseeing a team covering urban affairs, transport, local government and major Melbourne events such as the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
The future of Victoria's biggest exporter and electricity consumer hangs in the balance. The outage occurred with remarkable timing - just days after Alcoa's 30-year government-subsidised power contract ended and with power prices looking likely to rise after the closure of the Hazelwood power station.
Workers at Alcoa’s damaged Portland smelter will be asked to help save their jobs by taking holidays as the aluminium giant decides on its future in Australia.
Controversial Victorian Labor MP Cesar Melhem is under formal investigation over allegedly corrupt deals struck in his former role as head of the Australian Workers Union.
"Be dreamers. Be proud. Be home-owners."
A skyscraper proposed by the Liberal Party's federal treasurer is among the apartment towers set to be rejected by the Andrews government under strict new planning rules for the troubled Fishermans Bend development precinct.
After working 13-hour shifts in stifling conditions, some of the volunteers at Melbourne's Fashion Festival in March were on the verge of collapse.
Land banking schemes have led to a ban on running companies for a decade.
The scandal-plagued Health Services Union is poised to rejoin the Labor Party in Victoria, as part of Bill Shorten's expansion of his right-wing power base in his home state.
In a move that has enraged one of the city's most powerful developers, Planning Minister Richard Wynne has rejected a $1 billion Collins Street tower that would have overshadowed the Yarra River.
The Victorian Liberal party has moved to expel an outspoken party activist after he led a demonstration outside a party fund-raiser in Melbourne's south east attended by state leader, Matthew Guy
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