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Throughout his response to the pandemic, Premier Daniel Andrews has maintained a simple, compelling mantra; whenever his government faces a difficult decision, it follows the public health advice.
Ombudsman Deborah Glassâs investigation into the housing commission tower lockdown gives the lie to this notion.
The public housing tower at 33 Alfred Street in North Melbourne was the centre of the COVID outbreak.
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When Mr Andrews announced at 4.08pm on July 4 that residents of nine public housing towers across inner Melbourne would be confined to their homes immediately, he said he was following the public health advice and to do otherwise would put the lives of every Victorian at risk.
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A former director of Netball Australia has accused the sport’s national governing body of sidelining her from board deliberations and concealing from stakeholders its parlous financial position after she warned it was at risk of insolvency.
A Federal Court claim lodged by Cheryl McCormack lifts the lid on a bitter dispute at the highest level of the sport, with Netball Australia accused of breaching anti-discrimination and corporations laws by forcing her to take leave, cutting her off from board correspondence and effectively removing her as a director.
The Melbourne Vixens celebrate winning this year s Super Netball championship.
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Mokbel s win gets him no closer to freedom
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Mokbel s win gets him no closer to freedom
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Tony Mokbel has had a big win but unless he has a couple more he will stay in jail for a while yet.
To understand the implications of Tuesday’s decision by the Victorian Court of Appeal to quash Mokbel’s conviction for cocaine importation, you need to unpick the complex, judicial calculus used to sentence him in 2012 on a raft of other serious drug charges.
Tony Mokbel is escorted out of an Athens court by police in 2007.
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