Charlotte King
Charlotte King is a journalist based in Ballarat, Victoria.
Previously she was in Mildura, where she won a Quill in 2013 for reporting on how a motorcycle gang was pushing the drug ice through regional communities.
Her reports have appeared on AM, PM, The Country Hour and ABC TV News.
Ballarat Catholic school puts focus on child protection after 'horrifying' history
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St Patrick's College in Ballarat, infamous for its history of child sexual abuse, is determined to make amends and become a leader in child protection.
Topics: community-and-society, child-abuse, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, royal-commissions, ballarat-3350, vic, australia
More calls for pill testing after festival death
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The death of a 22-year-old at the Rainbow Serpent music festival in regional Victoria reignites calls for drug reform in the state.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, drug-use, drug-offences, police
Stand-off over fees for Stawell's nine-million-tyre pile
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Victoria's Environment Minister is dismissing calls to waive regulatory fees for operators of the southern hemisphere's biggest used tyre yard in Stawell.
Topics: environmental-health, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, state-parliament, states-and-territories, regional, stawell-3380
IBAC charges former Ballarat council employee
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Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog brings a number of fraud charges against a former employee of the Ballarat City Council.
Topics: local-government, corruption, ballarat-3350
Student paramedics learned communication is key during graphic exercise
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Student paramedics in Ballarat have been learning the importance of effective communication during a simulated blast exercise.
Topics: emergency-planning, health, university-and-further-education, education, ballarat-3350
'That's our life': Records kept from former Victorian state wards
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The former children held in some of Victoria's most notorious institutions are demanding the State Government improve access to key medical records from their past.
Topics: child-abuse, carers, vic, melbourne-3000, ballarat-3350
Horse numbers on Victorian beaches to be hobbled
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Environmental groups are criticising a Victorian Government plan to cap the number of horses training on beaches along the state's far south-west coast.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, sport, horse-racing, local-government, conservation, warrnambool-3280, port-fairy-3284, ballarat-3350
Ballarat Christian Brothers 'misled police' over abuse, royal commission lawyers say
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A senior member of the Christian Brothers religious order failed to tell police the truth about the nature of historic child sexual abuse complaints in Ballarat, lawyers assisting the sex abuse royal commission submit.
Topics: child-abuse, sexual-offences, royal-commissions, ballarat-3350, vic
Eureka flag 'a common emblem', says Australia First
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The right-wing Australia First Party says it is unfazed by threats of a private members' bill that would protect the Eureka flag from improper use.
Topics: human-interest, political-parties, history, ballarat-3350
Hospital acknowledges financial cost of bullying
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Ballarat's base hospital says its first ever recorded deficit is a direct result of the economic costs associated with efforts to address workplace bullying.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, health-administration, business-economics-and-finance, bullying, health, ballarat-3350
Victorian former priest jailed for 18 years over sexual abuse
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Former Ballarat priest Robert Claffey is jailed for more than 18 years for sexually abusing a dozen children in south-west Victoria over several decades.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, catholic, ballarat-3350, vic
Deakin University looks set to remain in Warrnambool after closure threat
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Deakin University looks set to keep its Warrnambool campus open after months of speculation, but uncertainty remains around how the courses will be structured.
Topics: education, university-and-further-education, states-and-territories, warrnambool-3280, vic
Councillors face mass sacking across Victoria
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More than 100 councillors will be sacked across Victoria for failing to sign new code of conduct laws.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, state-parliament, melbourne-3000
Call for Governor-General to protect Eureka flag
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Councillors from Ballarat, the city that gave birth to the Eureka flag, vote to have its protection enshrined in the law.
Topics: history, human-interest, community-and-society, local-government, ballarat-3350, canberra-2600
'People's lives destroyed': Ballarat Health Services review uncovers culture of abuse
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A culture of threats, abuse and nepotism is uncovered in an extensive workplace review of Ballarat Health Services, with a union now considering possible class action.
Topics: states-and-territories, health, ballarat-3350, vic
$2m scam 'won't affect' Ballarat patients
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Health authorities reassure the public that a $2 million financial scam involving Ballarat's base hospital will not affect patients.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, ballarat-3350
Ballarat MP to keep Labor's focus on health
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Shadow Health Minister Catherine King says she will never tire of defending Medicare, after retaining her portfolio in Labor's ministerial reshuffle.
Topics: political-parties, ballarat-3350, parliament-house-2600
Counselling service accused of ignoring sex abuse report (audio)
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Victoria's Health Services Commission investigates a Ballarat sexual abuse counselling service over claims it failed to follow its own policies in reporting a sexual assault.
Topics: child-abuse, sexual-offences, counselling, ballarat-3350, australia, vic
Plan to privatise Ballarat saleyards met with hostility
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A group of livestock agents in the regional city of Ballarat are digging in their heels in opposition to a plan to privatise the city's sale yards.
Topics: sheep-production, rural, livestock, ballarat-3350
Significant failings in Bacchus Marsh baby deaths: coroner
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There were significant failings in the obstetric care provided to three babies who died soon after being born at a rural Victorian hospital, the state's coroner has found.
Topics: health, health-administration, pregnancy-and-childbirth, law-crime-and-justice, bacchus-marsh-3340, vic, australia
VCAT overrules Ballarat telecommunications tower snub
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Telstra has successfully had a Ballarat City Council planning decision on a telecommunications tower overturned.
Topics: telecommunications, urban-development-and-planning, local-government, mobile-phones, sebastopol-3356, ballarat-3350
Budget to help put country rail services back on track
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Country rail has been one of the major winners in this year's Victorian budget, with a billion dollar commitment.
Topics: budget, rail-transport, states-and-territories, programs-and-initiatives, ballarat-3350, portland-3305, warrnambool-3280
Ballarat Civic Hall saved
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Ballarat city councillors have voted to save the city's disused civic hall.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, local-government, ballarat-3350
Vote looms on Ballarat civic hall redevelopment
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Ballarat councillors will vote tonight on a masterplan that would pave the way for the long-awaited city's derelict city hall to be renovated.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, local-government, ballarat-3350
No end date for Ballarat-Stawell Western Highway duplication
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The Victorian Roads Minister says he cannot confirm when funding will be committed to finalise the Western Highway duplication between Ballarat and Stawell.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, federal---state-issues, stawell-3380, ballarat-3350, buangor-3375
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