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Regional Victoria
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…
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Big Build Watch
Back Fences at Risk as North East Link Eyes Eight New Sites
Residents and councils along the Eastern Freeway corridor are pushing back hard after a proposal to extend the North East…
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Explainers
How Victoria Police releases official information — and how to verify it
How Victoria Police communicates official information through media conferences, statements and appeals — and how to tell a genuine police…
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Crime
The Christmas Day crocodile: Victoria Police’s strangest 2017 call-out
On Christmas Day 2017, Victoria Police found a crocodile in a Heidelberg Heights yard. The unusual case and the serious…
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Courts
The 2017 Tullamarine bomb scare: how a mid-air threat was contained
In May 2017 a passenger claimed he had a bomb on a flight out of Melbourne, forcing it back to…
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Courts
Brodie’s Law explained: Victoria’s serious-bullying and stalking offence
Brodie's Law made serious bullying a crime in Victoria, punishable by up to 10 years. What it changed, how it…
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Courts
Drones and Victoria’s prisons: the contraband problem that started at Ravenhall
A 2014 Ravenhall arrest was one of Australia's first drone prison-smuggling cases. How drones became a corrections security problem and…
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Courts
The 2016 Melbourne Christmas Day terror plot, disrupted
How Victoria Police and the AFP disrupted a plot to attack Federation Square and Flinders Street Station on Christmas Day…
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Courts
The 2017 Flinders Street car attack: a deliberate act, but not terrorism
In December 2017 a driver deliberately drove an SUV into pedestrians at Flinders Street. What happened, why police did not…
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Courts
The 2018 Bourke Street attack: what happened and what it changed
On 9 November 2018 a man drove a burning ute into Bourke Street and attacked passers-by, killing one. What happened,…
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