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Victoria
The Age photos of the week, April 20, 2024
The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.
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Victorian budget
Dozens of school upgrades could miss out in budget ‘bloodbath’
Labor committed $850 million to upgrade at least 89 schools in 2022, but more than half failed to secure funding to put shovels in the ground in last year’s state budget.
- by Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
Merrick Watts’ simple rule during Eltham pub fights: ‘Grab the till and run’
Once Eltham was an “amazing dichotomy between ruthless bogans and the arts”. Nowadays, the leafy suburb is fighting not to look like everywhere else.
- by Clay Lucas
Call to embed police in shopping centres to tackle knife crime
Victoria’s most senior federal frontbencher says police officers should be embedded in Melbourne’s big shopping centres.
- by Staff writers
Home builder’s collapse blows hole in state insurer’s finances
Taxpayers face having to pay for higher insurance premiums on major projects after the Porter Davis collapse hit the state insurance agency’s budget.
- by Kieran Rooney
Opinion
Greens
How Liberal mistakes are driving the Greens and Nationals’ succession plans
A rare reprieve from leadership chatter among Labor and the Liberals has turned the spotlight to other players among the Victorian Parliament.
- by Annika Smethurst
‘Light the way’: The SEC says it will be bold in getting more energy projects built
Victorian Labor’s big election promise has had a shaky start, but it now says it will start investing in projects the market is still unsure about.
- by Kieran Rooney
‘Jobs under threat’: Health savings scramble ahead of state budget
The government agency responsible for stepping in when there are medicine shortages in Victoria will announce redundancies on Thursday.
- by Broede Carmody, Henrietta Cook and Aisha Dow
Victorian MP Emma Vulin reveals motor neurone disease diagnosis
The lower house MP, the member for Pakenham, previously overcame a stroke at the age of 36.
- by Roy Ward
Fears green wedges in danger of being chipped away for urban uses
A growing number of applications to build private schools and places of worship in Melbourne’s green wedges is eroding their rural character, advocates say.
- by Adam Carey
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Victorian Parliament
Liberal MP Jess Wilson expecting baby after previous miscarriage
She will be the first Victorian state Liberal MP to give birth while in office since the 1990s.
- by Annika Smethurst