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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews wasn't cracking any gags about SA on Thursday as he addressed 18 new virus cases and Labor's widening crisis.
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Coronavirus pandemic

'Absolutely at risk of a second peak': Monday’s easing of restrictions postponed after alarming virus spike

Premier Daniel Andrews said from Sunday, the number of visitors allowed to visit Victorians in their homes will drop from ten to five.

  • by Melissa Cunningham
Camberwell Grammar School.
Coronavirus pandemic

Two aged care homes in lockdown as dozens of new cases put Victorians on alert

  • by David Estcourt
Mayors warn against lockdowns for entire local government areas
Coronavirus pandemic

Mayors warn against lockdowns for entire local government areas

  • by Timna Jacks
Gunai Kurnai woman Lidia Thorpe.
Greens

"Exactly what politics in Australia needs': Lidia Thorpe to be next Greens senator for Victoria

  • by Timna Jacks
An Extinction Rebellion activist is arrested during a protest in Melbourne in October.
Coronavirus pandemic

Cops 'pleased' as Melbourne climate protesters avoid hefty coronavirus fines

  • by Simone Fox Koob and David Estcourt
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Politics

Uber expects to offer commercial flying taxis in Melbourne by 2023.
Uber

Uber Air plan raises alarm on safety, noise, planning risks

Uber Air, the ride-share company’s proposed chopper flight service over Melbourne, will create major issues that governments will need to grapple with, a senior bureaucrat in the federal Department of Transport has said.

  • by Clay Lucas
Premier Daniel Andrews after sacking Adem Somyurek on Monday morning.
The Faceless Man

Power vacuum: Can the Labor Party really clean up its factional mess?

Daniel Andrews is emerging as a massive winner from the fall of Adem Somyurek. But for his party the landscape ahead is much less certain.

  • by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Since an investigation into branch stacking in a Victorian Labor faction, MP Adem Somyurek was sacked and two Labor MPs have resigned.
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Labor in turmoil

Fallout: the Somyurek scandal

Animal Justice Party MP Andy Meddick.
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State Parliament

Calls for corruption probe into union job for MP's son

  • by Sumeyya Ilanbey, Noel Towell and Nick McKenzie
Jasmine Turner lives in the suburb of Brooklyn and it takes her 15 minutes to walk from her home to her job in a childcare centre in Altona. Or it did. Now, on her most recent experience, it took her an hour to walk home. That's because the joint venture building the West Gate Tunnel knocked down the footbridge over the West Gate Freeway. 17th June 2020 The Age News Picture by JOE ARMAO
Roads

West Gate footbridges used by hundreds gone, no replacements in sight

  • by Clay Lucas

Crime & Courts

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Education

Geoff Snell and his son Mathew, whom records show was isolated from his classmates at Jackson School about 80 times.
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Education

'Violence, abuse, neglect': three Melbourne special schools in probe

  • by Adam Carey
Education

St Kevin's acting principal won't put his hand up for full-time role

  • by Anna Prytz
Education

Former St Kevin's counsellor settles bullying claim against school

  • by Adam Carey

Health

Geoff Snell and his son Mathew, whom records show was isolated from his classmates at Jackson School about 80 times.
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Education

'Violence, abuse, neglect': three Melbourne special schools in probe

  • by Adam Carey
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Domestic violence

More 'conflict, yelling' at home but men don't know how to find help

  • by Wendy Tuohy
Coronavirus pandemic

Disability service quarantined, Mikakos confirms AFL crowd discussions

  • by Michael Fowler

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