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Thousands of students face a revolving door of relief teachers, cancelled subjects or being split into separate classes due to ongoing teacher shortages.

Victoria signed an agreement with Israel's defence ministry a year ago, deepening the state's ties with an increasingly controversial partner.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme lost an estimated $1.4 billion through "payment errors" including fraud and over-claiming last financial year, a five-fold increase from two years ago.

The Victorian government spent $4.2 billion on consultants and contractors in the 2021-22 financial year, with more than half going to just five firms.

The family of an Aboriginal man who died after an incident involving two security guards says new allegations of violence in the industry show lessons have not been learnt.

The public is paying for private security guards to patrol city streets, but they are in the dark about just what powers these guards have been given.

Children with autism spent hours with staff in padded rooms, where they were sometimes sat on and held down by adults as part of a controversial NDIS-funded therapy.

People living with disabilities are being coerced into rented accommodation by unscrupulous operators who can drain their NDIS funding and leave them with little, if any, support.

Australia's cyber spy agency has been caught up in the KPMG consulting scandal.

Consulting giant KPMG has been accused by whistleblowers of wasting public money, submitting inflated invoices and billing the Department of Defence for hours never worked.

For years, Dyldam's string of company collapses has anguished apartment buyers, angered subcontractors, and frustrated liquidators.

Reforms in the wake of the child sexual abuse royal commission made it easier for victims to seek compensation, but now a fierce new battleground is emerging as some organisations at the centre of the claims push to have cases thrown out altogether.

We’re entering a new era of artificial intelligence, where human-like conversation and images can be created with the click of a button. Already, the powerful technology is changing our lives — for better or worse.

A hacker — who claims to have been part of one of the world's most successful gangs — tells us why Australia is a target and laughs at the distress caused by the Medibank data breach.

Clare Goss and Anthea Parsons were grateful their sexual abuse complaint against a former teacher was proceeding to trial. But after watching him plead guilty to reduced charges, they say their experience at the hands of Victoria's public prosecutors left them feeling "abandoned".

Public schools are allowed to offer cash incentives to attract staff, but as a teacher shortage bites, some fear the practice is creating an "arms race" that leaves poorer state schools behind.

The legal firm representing the thousands of plaintiffs in a class action over dangerous pelvic mesh could take up to a third of the compensation payment.

A senior clinician says they were encouraged to get patients to access any potential funding sources to pay for their care — including their superannuation funds — in a job interview at a privately run psychiatric hospital in Melbourne.

Victoria is in dire need of tens of thousands of healthcare workers. But with no easy solution in sight, some health leaders say we need to find better ways to use the staff we've got.

Former patients and staff raise concerns about the standard of treatment and facilities at Essendon Private Clinic, in Melbourne's north-west. The health group running the hospital rejects the allegations, saying high-quality patient care is at the "core of our business".

As the extent of the Optus data breach emerges, a past victim of identity fraud urges people to more tightly guard their online security, as a cyber security researcher says tougher laws on company data retention are needed.

Suicide rates have increased by about 15 per cent, and while suicide safety planning is a proven prevention tool —many people don't know about it.

Victoria's Inspector-General for Emergency Management says the emergency ESTA call taking service wasn't able to properly ramp up during the pandemic.

Residents are becoming increasingly frustrated by the delay of a long-awaited framework to revitalise the CBD.

More online courses from troubled educator Chisholm TAFE have been found to be non-compliant.