The Latest Breaking News from John Cain

As the 2022 Victorian election campaign moved into its final days late last week, the consensus within the major parties, various community independent candidates, new little parties furious about lockdowns, and the mainstream media was that the election was a referendum on the premier, Daniel Andrews.

New data from Victoria's coroner has revealed 208 LGBTQI people have died by suicide in the state in the past decade.

Exclusive: Coroner suspects ‘undercount’ as a decade of suicide data is released to the public

The inquest has been delayed following an investigation into a neurologist who consulted the AFL on concussion.

A coroner finds Janice Bufton was the "primary aggressor" in family violence incidents and police should not have made an intervention order application for her.

A coronial inquest opens on the fifth anniversary of the death of pregnant Melbourne mother Annie O'Brien, who was misdiagnosed with gastroenteritis before a stillbirth and multiple organ failure.

St Basil's Home for the Aged bosses have lost their challenge against giving evidence about the deaths of 50 residents during a COVID-19 outbreak.

The Victoria Police officer who shot and killed Gabriel Messo in a Melbourne park in 2020 is excused from giving evidence at an inquest on the grounds he might incriminate himself.

Officers who responded to calls about Gabriel Messo violently attacking his mother in a public park in Melbourne's north give evidence at a coronial inquest about their actions, including failing to switch on body-worn cameras before Mr Messo was fatally shot.

Gabriel Messo was shot dead by Victoria Police as he brutally attacked his mother in July 2020, a day after being turned away from mental health services.

Two nursing home bosses are awaiting a Victorian Supreme Court decision on whether they have to give evidence at an inquest into dozens of COVID-19 deaths.