Victoria’s ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons: What Police Won’t Say
From rubber bullets to stinger grenades, Victoria Police refuses to publicly disclose the make and model of crowd-control weapons —…
Read More »Workers allegedly sleeping on luxury tower site in Burwood
A CFMEU official has alleged construction workers were living on the Victoria Place high-rise site in Burwood, in conditions a…
Read More »Six teens now charged over Bendigo stabbing of homeless man
A total of six teenagers have now been charged over the alleged stabbing of a homeless man in central Bendigo,…
Read More »From Dispute to VCAT: How Rental Rows Get Resolved in Victoria
Thousands of Victorian renters and landlords take their disputes to VCAT each year. Here is how the process works, what…
Read More »Who watches the watchers? Victoria’s integrity web explained
IBAC, the Victorian Inspectorate, the Ombudsman, the Auditor-General — four bodies, overlapping powers, one goal. Here is how they actually…
Read More »From Crime Scene to Courtroom: How Victoria’s Forensic Labs Work
Victoria's forensic science agencies process thousands of exhibits every year — but it is the chain-of-custody rules underpinning every sample…
Read More »How Victoria Builds a Drug-Trafficking Case From the Ground Up
From covert surveillance to courtroom sentencing, VCN breaks down how prosecutors and police construct a commercial drug-supply case in Victoria.
Read More »Pregnancy Privacy Breach: Woman Takes Victoria Police to VCAT
A Victorian woman alleges a detective unlawfully disclosed her pregnancy to a witness, triggering a VCAT complaint she says stems…
Read More »Highway Patrol vs General Duties: How Victoria’s Road Police Work
Victoria Police's Highway Patrol is a specialist unit with its own training, deployment logic and pursuit rules. Here's what sets…
Read More »The Weight of Waiting: Victoria’s Intervention-Order Crisis
Tens of thousands of family-violence intervention orders pass through Victoria's Magistrates' Courts every year. Mei Calloway examines what the numbers…
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