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Teenage detainees at Victoria's maximum-security Barwon prison have been pinned down in their cells, punched and kicked by adult prison guards, human rights lawyers claim.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, crime, judges-and-legal-profession, human, anakie-3221, vic
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The Victorian Opposition is calling on the State Government to force striking maximum security inmates at Barwon Prison to return to work.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, anakie-3221
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A second man is charged following an alleged hit-and-run in which a 77-year-old cyclist died at Anakie last year.
Topics: courts-and-trials, anakie-3221, geelong-3220, vic
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A large hayshed fire north of Geelong destroys more than $1million in hay and is expected to burn for days, Victorian fire authorities say.
Topics: fires, anakie-3221
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| UpdatedA Geelong man is charged with culpable driving causing death over an alleged hit-and-run that claimed the life of cyclist Gordon Ibbs near Geelong on Mother's Day.
Topics: road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, anakie-3221
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| UpdatedThe daughter of a Victorian man fatally knocked off on his bicycle in a hit-and-run on Mother's Day pleads for the man responsible to "be brave and come forward" as police reveal a second person may have helped destroy the car involved in the collision.
Topics: cycling, death, crime, law-crime-and-justice, road, police, anakie-3221
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A car that may have been involved the fatal hit-run of a cyclist near Geelong is found torched in a car park, police say.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, cycling, road, corio-3214, anakie-3221
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| UpdatedA hit-and-run that killed a cyclist near Geelong may have been deliberate, police say, after they receive numerous reports of cyclists being "stalked" in the area.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, cycling, road, corio-3214, anakie-3221
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Hundreds of rabbits are on the loose and many are feared dead, after a burglary south-west of Melbourne.
Topics: animals, animal-welfare, crime, anakie-3221
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Parks Victoria is warning people not to walk into restricted areas of the Brisbane Ranges National Park, south-east of Ballarat.
Topics: national-parks, anakie-3221, ballarat-3350
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| UpdatedThieves have stolen up to $30,000 from a fairy theme park at Anakie, Victoria.
Topics: offbeat, law-crime-and-justice, crime, anakie-3221, australia, vic
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A woman in her 50s is in a critical condition in Melbourne's Alfred Hospital after suffering serious burns in a house fire in Anakie, east of Ballarat, overnight.
Topics: residential, ballarat-3350, anakie-3221
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| UpdatedPrince Edward has travelled to country Victoria, to meet some of the firefighters who defended the state during the January bushfires.
Topics: people, anakie-3221
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One hundred firefighters and four waterbombers are continuing to battle a 70 hectare blaze at Tatong, near Benalla in north-east Victoria.
Topics: bushfire, anakie-3221, shepparton-3630, tatong-3673