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This year's Victorian duck hunting season a disappointment to shooters and animal advocates alike

The duck hunting season for 2023 will be shorter, with smaller bag limits, prompting opposition criticism that the government is doing a "stealth" shutdown.

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Victorian duck hunting season gets the green light

The Victorian government has announced the dates for the 2023 duck hunting season despite strong opposition from animal groups

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A Vic Teen Told Her Friends She Was ‘Going To Milk The Cows’ Sleep-Walked Out The Fkn Window

A Vic teen has been left hospitalised after sleep-walking out of a second storey window. She has a shattered pelvis and vertebrae.

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Victorian government to pay landowners for hosting power infrastructure

Landowners will be eligible to receive payments of $8,000 per kilometre of transmission infrastructure for 25 years, but those in line say it's not enough to ease their concerns about a project that has been "shambolic" in its planning.

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Temporary protection visa scrapping welcomed by Swan Hill asylum seeker Rohullah Hussaini

The scrapping of temporary protection visas means Rohullah Hussaini is a step closer to meeting his three-year-old daughter for the first time and reuniting with his wife, as part of a new start in Victoria's "heart of the Murray".

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More than $31 million worth of illegal tobacco seized, destroyed in rural Victoria

The Australian Taxation Office says two raids on properties in rural Victoria have helped to disrupt the operations of organised criminals.

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Landowners paid for energy infrastructure

Landowners with electricity infrastructure on their property will receive $8000 per square kilometres for 25 years, with community opposition to some projects.

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Victorian Liberals have ‘no plans’ to change abortion laws despite MP’s claims, leader says

John Pesutto refused to condemn Moira Deeming over speech and comments contained in emails released under FoI

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Victorian AMA seeks to allay privacy concerns as lower house passes contentious health database bill

Some argue a centralised system – with no ability to opt out – will remove people’s autonomy over their medical information

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Neighbours swim across river to rescue woman from Curdievale house fire

Police praise the efforts of two neighbours who came to the rescue of a woman in her 80s during a house fire near the Twelve Apostles in Victoria overnight.

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Historic house shaped 'like a 50-cent piece' and designed by architect Edith Ingpen for sale

A timber cottage designed by the first woman to graduate with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Melbourne is for sale in regional Victoria.

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Control lines drawn for large Victorian grassfire

An uncontrolled grassfire north of Melbourne is burning for a third day but no property has been damaged so far despite the blaze growing.

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Why Tasmania and Victoria dominate the list of Australia's largest trees – and why these majestic giants are under threat

Australia has an extraordinary diversity of trees, with more than 820 species of eucalypts alone. But not all trees are created equal. Some species can turn into giants, like the majestic mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) and the impressive white fig (Ficus virens).

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‘Changing the justice system’: Victorian Liberal Brad Battin goes from tough on crime to keeping people out of jail

Exclusive: former police officer says those who commit low-level crimes should not be in prisons

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Hazelwood mine rehabilitation plan to be assessed amid environmental concerns

The federal government will investigate the potential environmental effects of rehabilitating the Hazelwood mine in Victoria's east amid concern it could contaminate waterways.

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Western Australia announces parliamentary inquiry into forced adoptions of children

Western Australia will follow Victoria in holding an inquiry into forced adoption, following two years of campaigning by people who were adopted out as children and mothers who were forced to give up their babies.

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As livestock theft becomes a growing problem in rural Australia, new technologies offer hope

Last week, it was reported that 700 sheep with an estimated value of $140,000, including nearly 200 valuable merino ewes, were stolen from a Victorian property in a highly sophisticated rural crime operation. Such large-scale rural theft is increasingly common.

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Vics rout Redbacks, close on Sheffield Shield final

Career-best figures from young paceman Mitch Perry capped a statement Sheffield Shield win by Victoria over an outclassed South Australia.

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Ex-Labor MP resigns from board after 'damning' report

A government board member lobbied for a developer in exchange for donations to his Labor MP daughter's election campaign, Victoria's corruption watchdog says.

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Former Victorian minister lobbied for developer who donated to daughter’s election campaign, Ibac report finds

Ibac finds Theo Theophanous improperly lobbied and received ‘in-kind benefit’ to Labor MP for Northcote Kat Theophanous

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New Liberal MP hits out at 'extreme' equality

New Liberal MP Moira Deeming has sounded off about the "extremes" of equality and unity in her maiden speech to Victorian parliament.

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Parliament probe to 'shine a light' on Victorian floods

The Victorian coalition and Greens have joined forces to set up a parliamentary inquiry into last year's floods after criticism of the Maribyrnong River review.

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Call for Vic wages cap to be axed as inflation soars

The Victorian Greens are leading a call for Victoria's 1.5 per cent cap on public sector wages to be axed to keep essential workers' heads above water.

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Climate change will hit Australia’s most populous states hardest, global report finds

Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland rank among the places most at risk from physical climate change in Oceania, a new report finds.

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Aston byelection: barrister Roshena Campbell selected as Liberal candidate

Melbourne city councillor beat rivals including a former Victoria state MP to take on first big test of the Dutton-led opposition

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