Bridget Rollason

Academic experts will be recruited to draft and proofread VCE exams in an attempt to improve quality control after repeated mistakes.

As renters across the country continue to feel the pressure of an ongoing housing crisis, some Melbourne residents are finding their homes "unliveable".

Advocates say federal environment laws could be overhauled to allow consideration of the potential for projects to mitigate climate change — like a knocked-back proposal for a port development in Victoria.

Gabrielle de Vietri posted a selfie in support of a climate protest that caused the Victorian Parliament to be adjourned, in a move some MPs say put them at risk.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is among those criticising a nude depiction of her published in the Herald Sun, describing it as "sexualised imagery" — but the cartoonist has defended his work as "fair political comment".

MP Paul Edbrooke, injured in a light plane crash during a skydiving session, says he will keep up his hobby and, after a rest day tomorrow, will be back at it next weekend.

The evidence presented to the inquiry into the cancellation of the Commonwealth Games casts some doubt over Jacinta Allan's claim she only knew of cost blowouts in the weeks leading up to the event being cancelled.

Lawyers the Victorian government hired to negotiate the cancellation of the Commonwealth Games weeks before it officially made the announcement cost taxpayers more than $1 million, documents show.

It should have been a smooth transition of power from the then-premier to his deputy, but it was very far from it in the fiery meeting that forced Ben Carroll to back down.

A Senate committee interim report sheds more light on when red flags began to emerge around the hosting of the 2026 regional Commonwealth Games. But how did we get here? And where did it go so wrong?

Commonwealth Games Australia has been accused of a lack of urgency by a senate inquiry as it searches for a new host for the 2026 games.

Multiple Victorian home owners have made complaints to the state's building authority over allegedly defective works they say have left them hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket.

Property developer John Woodman plied suburban councillors with hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for support of his lucrative projects, a damning report from Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog has found. 

Frontline emergency workers have accused one of Victoria's busiest hospitals of not meeting legally-mandated nurse-to-patient ratios, which they claim is putting the sickest patients at risk.

Private ambulance crews asked to help on the day of last month’s horror Eynesbury school bus crash were instead directed to do non-urgent private contract jobs, workers have alleged, saying operators are putting profit over patient care every day.

Victoria's director of public prosecutions Kerri Judd has rejected criticism that she should have authorised criminal charges over the Lawyer X scandal.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews refuses to apologise to Liberal MP Cindy McLeish after being accused of referring to her as a "half-wit grub" during a rowdy parliamentary sitting.

Changes in Victoria would allow hospitals to easily share patient information through a centralised electronic system — but some say better privacy protections are required.

This woman has been waiting seven months for cataract surgery. She says the wait and slow decline of her sight have affected her emotional, psychological, and physical wellbeing.

Just one new magistrate was appointed in Victoria this financial year despite fresh data showing the state's courts have the largest backlogs in the country, with tens of thousands of criminal cases waiting to be heard.

Amid warnings that bulk-billing could become a thing of the past, states and territories are set to meet the federal government for healthcare reform talks.

Nuclear medicine experts warn desperately needed PET scanners could sit "dormant" in Victoria because there are not enough staff to run them, despite a $44 million investment from the state government in the high-tech machines.

Victorians will pay less for public transport across regional Victoria regardless of who wins the state election, with transport, hip-pocket issues, health and ISIS brides all featuring on the first official day of the campaign.

A woman had already evacuated Echuca, in Victoria's north, when someone took 300 sandbags protecting her property. But after a call for help was posted on Facebook, dozens of strangers came to their neighbour's aid.  

One of the state's biggest gas producers, Esso, has told the Victorian government to prepare for a potential reduction in gas supply, due to ongoing industrial action.