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Big Build Watch
The Think Tank, the CFMEU and the Big Build’s Corruption Bill
VCN can reveal how Mick Gatto helped establish a research centre whose findings have been used to minimise the financial…
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Courts
MCG Assault on Thorpe: Conviction Details Released After Suppression Lifted
A Melbourne court has convicted a woman over the 2024 assault on Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe outside the MCG, with…
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Big Build Watch
Allan admits Big Build was infiltrated — but rules out royal commission
Premier Jacinta Allan has publicly acknowledged organised crime penetrated Victoria's biggest construction projects while rejecting growing calls for a full…
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Crime
Police close Deeming assault probe: Guy demands apology
Victoria Police has closed its investigation into a complaint made against Liberal MP Matthew Guy, finding 'no offence detected'. Guy…
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Courts
Owners Take the Keys Back From Victoria’s Strata Industry
Frustrated by high fees, empty maintenance funds and unresponsive managers, a growing number of Victorian apartment owners are self-managing their…
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Big Build Watch
Big Build graft claims put Allan’s inflation defence under fire
An integrity expert has called Premier Jacinta Allan's 'inflationary pressures' explanation for Big Build cost blowouts 'nonsense' amid fresh allegations…
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Big Build Watch
Big Build Misconduct: Why a Royal Commission May Be Unavoidable
Allegations of organised crime, extortion and fraud on Victorian government construction sites keep mounting — and critics say existing oversight…
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Regional Victoria
Sixty years on, Curtis’s abuse trial is dead before it starts
A Victorian Supreme Court case brought by a Ballarat man alleging childhood abuse by a Christian Brother has been halted…
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Policing in Victoria
Conducted energy devices in Victoria: how Tasers were rolled out statewide
Conducted energy devices — the electro-muscular weapons most people still call Tasers — went from a specialist tool carried by…
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Public Safety
The 2017 Essendon DFO plane crash: what the investigation found
On the morning of 21 February 2017, a light aircraft came down at the rear of the Direct Factory Outlets…
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