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.
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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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