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Victoria’s water bombing capabilities have been slashed by almost a third as emergency responders, pilots and experts warn that Victoria may not be prepared for the hot and dry summer ahead.

Outgoing watchdog chief Deborah Glass tells parliamentary hearing its funding should not be ‘at the mercy of the government of the day’

An investigation by the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner has concluded that VicForests hired a private investigator to conduct surveillance on environmentalists and an academic.

The Victorian government is facing mounting pressure to clean up the upper house voting system, which still uses group voting tickets despite every other Australian jurisdiction having dumped them.

Watchdog’s report finds unnamed organisation breached rules on gifts, spending at least $30,000 on memorials for staff who died in circumstances unrelated to work