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New Zealand teachers are helping fill the gaps in Victorian schools as homegrown teachers flock to jobs interstate.

As Victorian teachers flock interstate, Kiwis are filling the education gap

As state-educated teachers undertake a mass exodus interstate, a flood of New Zealand educators is cushioning the blow.

  • Grant McArthur and Noel Towell

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IVF clinics will face greater scrutiny under beefed-up Victorian laws aimed at better protecting fertility patients.

IVF clinics face stricter standards, threat of bans following embryo bungles

Beefed up Victorian laws will increase scrutiny on fertility providers and give greater powers to immediately cancel an IVF clinic’s registration.

  • Grant McArthur
ASIC chairman Joe Longo.

ASIC was dubbed a ‘watchdog with no teeth’. Has Joe Longo changed it?

The outgoing chair of ASIC says he’s made the regulator more ambitious, pointing to more penalties it has extracted and more investigations launched.

  • Clancy Yeates
Bar Bambi in the hours after the arson attack on April 25.

Urgent and clear strategy needed to break the wave of criminal attacks in city

These crimes are now so much a part of daily life in Victoria that they seem almost normalised. We can’t afford for that to become the case.

  • The Age's View
Police will examine whether a federal tax break on alcohol has played a role in a spate of firebombings.

Torched bars, ‘tax-free’ booze and the $180m loophole: Canberra cash under scrutiny in hunt for firebombing motive

Federal and state police are investigating whether a string of mysterious nightspot fires is linked to a lucrative tax perk supposed to boost the distilling industry.

  • Lachlan Abbott and Nick McKenzie
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The company has spent years publicly endorsing Australia’s news bargaining framework.

LinkedIn wins news bargaining reprieve as Microsoft boss lands in Sydney

Satya Nadella arrives in Australia this week as Treasury finalises a news bargaining scheme that is expected to leave his company untouched.

  • David Swan and Calum Jaspan
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Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is aware of the dangers of his company’s AI.

No crying wolf: Regulate the AI juggernaut before it’s too late

No one denies the potential of AI to transform economies and societies, but those who know the technology best are cognisant of its dangers.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Greenslopes Supported Residential Service in Lower Templestowe has had its registration revoked after Victoria’s Social Services Regulator uncovered concerning conditions for vulnerable residents.

Dementia patients found tied to chairs, lying in filth, with open sores

It took regulators three years to investigate and close the service after warnings about the state of the home were first raised in March 2023.

  • Grant McArthur
Former Star Entertainment directors were let off the hook last week, but the high-stakes Federal Court judgment still raises the bar on board behaviour, ASIC says.

Corporate boards are on notice now, despite our Star court defeat, says ASIC

Former Star Entertainment directors were let off the hook last week, but the high-stakes Federal Court judgment still raises the bar on board behaviour, says the corporate watchdog.

  • Colin Kruger
Opposition spokesman for housing Andrew Bragg.

Labor offered Coalition more staff to support dead FOI bill, says Bragg

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has revealed a negotiating tactic from the government in seeking support for the controversial bill that was shelved on Thursday.

  • Nick Newling