Regional Victoria
Country and rural Victoria — country road tolls, single-officer stations, regional crime patterns, and the policing challenges Melbourne rarely sees. Reported by Tom Whitford from the Goulburn Valley.
Bendigo city-edge home sells $125k over reserve at auction
A three-storey inner-Bendigo property fetched $2,225,000 at auction on Saturday, with competition between two bidders pushing the result well beyond…
Read More »Cripps seals thriller as Carlton stun Geelong by four points
Carlton's Patrick Cripps delivered a captain's moment at the MCG on Saturday, guiding the Blues to a hard-fought four-point win…
Read More »One cop, one town: the reality of single-officer postings
Across regional Victoria, dozens of police stations are staffed by a single officer. VCN explains how those postings work, what…
Read More »Ten Years of Whiskers: Ballarat’s Beard Festival Turns a Decade
The Ballarat Beard & Stache competition marks its tenth year, growing from a grassroots friendship into one of regional Victoria's…
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Crime in Geelong, Bendigo and Ballarat: the data behind the headlines
CSA data on Victoria's three biggest regional centres, alcohol-related assault patterns, family-violence trends, and what the headlines often miss.
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Country roads, country toll: regional Victoria’s road safety crisis
Why regional Victoria's per-capita road toll is far higher than metropolitan Melbourne, the worst stretches of country highway, and what…
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Inside Victoria’s crime statistics: what the latest data really shows
A plain-English guide to the Crime Statistics Agency data series and how to read a quarterly release without falling for…
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