Jacob Hersant was interviewed by police and will be charged at a later date.

Neo-Nazis’ Anzac Day taunts unlikely to breach hate-speech law,experts say

National outrage over white supremacists’ booing at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance has sparked debate about whether Victoria’s beefed-up anti-vilification legislation could be used to punish the agitators.

  • Rachel Eddie,Brittany Busch,Sherryn Groch andLachlan Abbott

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The minor and micro-parties vying for your vote in the senate.

Citizens,Trumpets,Hearts:A guide to the Victorian Senate ballot

Some minor and micro-parties are exactly what they say on the tin. Others need a little more explaining.

  • Rachel Eddie andHannah Hammoud
The development site opposite Westfield Southland and the proposed Cheltenham SRL station.

Developer suing Suburban Rail Loop for reneging on compensation

A Highett apartments developer alleges the Victorian government is using a technicality to avoid paying millions in compensation for disrupting construction of a 12-storey housing project.

  • Rachel Eddie
Nationals candidate for the Federal seat of Bendigo,Andrew Lethlean.

Will a backlash against the premier help the Nats in this safe Labor seat?

Bendigo hasn’t been won by the Coalition since 1996,but the Nationals are throwing the “kitchen sink” at it.

  • Rachel Eddie
Moira Deeming re-enters the party room on December 27 last year.

Moira Deeming promoted,stoking tensions over Pesutto’s fate

Opposition Leader Brad Battin has named Deeming his “representative to the western suburbs”,after her defamation victory against the party’s former leader threatens to push him to the brink of bankruptcy.

  • Rachel Eddie
Premier Jacinta Allan,Housing and Building Minister Harriet Shing,and then premier Daniel Andrews.

Victoria falls 20,000 short on home-building target

New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown the Victorian government falling well short of its building target of 80,000 homes a year.

  • Rachel Eddie
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Education Minister Ben Carroll.

Exam authority board sacked after thousands accessed VCE tests early

The report published on Tuesday found web pages that inadvertently published sample cover pages containing exam content had been viewed thousands of times.

  • Alex Crowe andRachel Eddie
There were delays getting into the Richmond v Brisbane Lions match in round four and those delays are expected again as security is tightened.

Revealed:The flaw in process that allowed guns into MCG,and how security will be tightened

Patrons will be scanned by handheld devices every time the AI security system flags a suspicious item as part of tighter security processes at the MCG,after two men allegedly carried guns into this month’s Carlton-Collingwood game.

  • Peter Ryan andRachel Eddie
The Hallam Road landfill in Hampton Park.

Victoria wants to burn more waste for energy – in someone else’s electorate

While the government has sought another lift to the cap on how much rubbish can be burned each year,proposed waste-to-energy projects are meeting community backlash and regulatory barriers.

  • Kieran Rooney andRachel Eddie
Noah Balta at Richmond training earlier this year.

Jacinta Allan joins calls for Noah Balta to sit out of football until his sentencing

Balta won’t return to the Richmond senior side this weekend,and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan wants him to sit out until he is sentenced for his attack on a man in NSW.

  • Roy Ward andRachel Eddie