The premier will say a different approach is needed to tackle the injustices and entrenched disadvantage faced by Indigenous Victorians.
Jacinta Allan said the alleged behaviour of Darren Cheeseman was not acceptable anywhere in the community,but despite losing his role he’ll remain in her party room.
The federal Coalition joined several premiers,including Victoria’s,in demanding urgent national cabinet attention on the number of women being killed by men.
Three women killed themselves as the perpetrators of violence against them were due to be released from custody. Police and crisis services want their deaths to be classified as family violence deaths and are urging the coroner to examine their cases.
Labor member for South Barwon Darren Cheeseman has been asked by Jacinta Allan to resign from his role as a parliamentary secretary as a “result of allegations of persistent,inappropriate behaviour in the workplace”.
In one laneway,people sip wine at a table under a heater. In another,someone is crouched behind a bin on the hard ground ready to inject. Their drug of choice is illegal,and without a safe injecting room,they have nowhere else to go.
John Torney,who was found not guilty of killing a toddler in 2015,has been charged over the death of Emma Bates in Cobram.
Wind and solar farms are waiting up to two years for planning permission,as investors take aim at “pinch points” obstructing efforts to wean the grid off coal.
The premier abandoned Daniel Andrews’ promise to build a second safe injecting room,despite her own faction pushing strongly for it.
Premier Jacinta Allan has drawn a line under the debate about a second injecting room in Melbourne by going against an expert report to say it will never be built.
The Victorian premier told mourners at Twentyman’s state funeral that the eulogy was typical of a man who always “downplayed the enormous difference he made”.