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The contraceptive pill will be available at Victorian chemists without a script.

Contraceptive pill will become available without a script in Victoria

Women will be able to see a pharmacist instead of a doctor to access the pill, but the move has doctors worried.

  • Kieran Rooney and Henrietta Cook

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Mick Gatto wearing a shirt with an M Group logo in 2017.

Officer of Gatto-linked company obtained labour hire licence despite strip club scandal

The state opposition has continued to question the premier over companies linked to the gangland figure.

  • Kieran Rooney
Premier Jacinta Allan

Allan’s WFH laws look like genius. They only take us closer to the cliff’s edge

If you asked AI to devise a policy that would be widely popular, cost the budget nothing and wedge the Victorian opposition, it would probably come up with legislated work from home.

  • Chip Le Grand
Mick Gatto at Caulfield Racecourse on Wednesday.

Victorian watchdog moves to ban Gatto-linked labour hire company

The Labour Hire Authority is acting to strip the licence of a company closely linked to the underworld figure.

  • Nick McKenzie, Matt Dennien and Kieran Rooney
Premier Jacinta Allan again rebuffed calls to expand the corruption watchdog’s powers.

Watchdog lashes Victoria’s Big Build agency over ‘poor’ records

Asked to investigate allegations of misconduct, the ombudsman was stymied by lax record-keeping around spending at the agency managing the state’s $100 billion infrastructure program.

  • Nick McKenzie and Kieran Rooney

What’s not to like? Allan and Wilson lock horns in Insta fight

When Premier Jacinta Allan’s follower count doubled on Instagram, both the government and the opposition cried foul.

  • Fiona Byrne and John Buckley
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Jess Wilson has thrown herself into sharp media grabs skewering the decaying Allan government, but needs to show more substance.

US-style laws proposed to tackle Big Build corruption in Victoria

Opposition leader Jess Wilson has pledged to chase down corruption with anti-mafia powers if elected, as the Allan government dodged a vote on boosting powers for IBAC.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Paramedic Kathryn McCormack says she feels let down after charges of assaulting an emergency worker were withdrawn against a man alleged to have attacked her.

Police, firefighters join call for review of assault loophole

Premier Jacinta Allan conceded further reform could be needed and that the outcome in this case was concerning.

  • Rachel Eddie and Grant McArthur
Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny said she would bring the legislation mid this year.

Victoria to ban ‘good character’ references from watering down sentences

Convicted offenders in Victoria will no longer be able to rely on good character references to reduce their sentences, after years of advocacy from child sex abuse survivors.

  • Rachel Eddie
The Liberals are targeting inner-city suburbs for higher density.

Liberals target inner-city Labor, Greens seats for wave of skyscrapers

In their first major housing policy announcement before the election, the Liberals say they’ll reverse the Allan government’s high-density push in middle-ring suburbs.

  • Daniella White