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Then-premier Daniel Andrews and his then-deputy, Jacinta Allan, announce the cancellation of the 2026 Commonwealth Games on July 18, 2023.

Premier, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars is no game

This week, Victoria was supposed to be hosting the Commonwealth Games. Instead, the state is counting the cost of another blunder.

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Pablo Picasso, Femme à la résille (Woman in a hairnet), 1938, CREDIT Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and Salvador Dalí, Instrument masochiste (Masochistic Instrument), circa 1934

From a New York bathroom to regional Victoria: An exhibition of art’s heavy hitters is on its way

This May, an exhibition featuring works from Dali to Picasso, Degas to Matisse lands at Shepparton Art Museum.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Justice Michael Croucher.

‘Idiotic, cruel, boneheaded’: Judge slams police over sleep-deprived inmates

A Supreme Court judge has warned that regional courts may no longer be able to hold some criminal trials because of hourly welfare checks being conducted on inmates.

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A boy has died after being found unresponsive in a G.J Gardner display home pool

Boy, 8, drowns in swimming pool in display home near Shepparton

The boy was pulled from a swimming pool at a display home near Shepparton but could not be saved.

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Bari Sulejman

‘Maggots in the fruit’: Orchards under attack as pest prevention funds shrink

Councils in the food bowl are calling for urgent reinstatement of government funding to protect some of Victoria’s most fertile orchards from fruit fly.

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Savannah Kemp died in a car driven by her aunt.

‘Justice is not vindictive’: Crash driver who killed niece and unborn baby walks free

A judge found no court could punish Chrystle Kemp more than she had punished herself, and gave her a community corrections order.

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The Macedon Ranges council area recorded the largest jump in rents in regional Victoria.

‘A more relaxed lifestyle’: Regional Victorian towns where rents jumped most

Lower cost of living, lifestyle and strong regional economies were driving demand for homes in regional Victoria.

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Garang Kuol is in Melbourne this week with Newcastle United.

From boy wonder to invisible: What happened to Garang Kuol?

Newcastle United swooped on Garang Kuol after he made a big splash at the 2022 World Cup. More than a year later, he’s back in Australia for the first time and keen to make his debut for the club.

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Emma Bates died in Cobram on Tuesday.

Emma Bates was warned about her new neighbour. Then she was found dead and beaten

A devastated Louise Hayes revealed that her kindhearted sister received an ominous letter after John Torney moved to her street in Cobram.

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Police are investigating after a woman allegedly set fire to another woman in Shepparton on Monday.

Woman under police guard after suspected fire attack

Police say they believe the woman set fire to another woman in the state’s northeast on Monday night.

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