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Museums Victoria is about to axe 55 jobs due to government funding cuts.

‘Find someone to hug’: Museums Victoria to cut 55 jobs, raise ticket prices after funding slashed

New spending on exhibition spaces and IT upgrades will be deferred after big cuts in this year’s state budget.

  • Clay Lucas

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Treasurer Jaclyn Symes delivering her budget speech in parliament next to Premier Jacinta Allan.

Jobs Department faces major staff cuts under public sector restructure

The proposed restructure would cut about 100 jobs within the department, including all of Creative Victoria’s music and screen workers.

  • Rachel Eddie
A Suburban Rail Loop site in Clayton.

Victoria keeps its AA credit rating despite warnings over project costs

The state has a stable outlook, according to S&P Global, but Suburban Rail Loop costs could blow out.

  • Kieran Rooney
Rory Costelloe of Villawood Properties in Tarneit.

Cost of planning new suburbs skyrockets as approvals collapse

New analysis has revealed a dramatic slowdown in the delivery of new suburbs by the state’s planning authority.

  • Daniella White
Jiselle Hanna was elected secretary, and Mitch Vandewerdt-Holman assistant secretary, of the CPSU in Victoria.

The newly elected militants leading the public sector union

Public service workers bracing for thousands of job cuts have elected a new leadership at their union for the first time in 32 years. Jiselle Hanna doesn’t want to waste her unlikely success.

  • Rachel Eddie
Carly Brown-McErlain with her daughter Ayda, 6, said she spent about $300 on school uniforms. 

Parents ‘stockpiling’ uniforms ahead of changes to school bonus program

Uniform retailers have struggled to meet demand as parents buy up more than they need, spending $81 million on uniforms since November as other bonus money remains unspent.

  • Bridie Smith
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The $600 million Victorian Heart Hospital plans to close an operating theatre and six recovery beds.

Heart hospital closing operating theatre, beds for ‘fiscal sustainability’

Doctors warn patients with life-threatening cardiac conditions will wait longer for treatment because of cost-cutting at the state’s new $600 million specialist hospital.

  • Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
Taxpayers have shielded Metro Trains from the impact of COVID-19.

Taxpayers fork out almost $500m to shield Metro Trains from pandemic fallout

Victoria is paying Metro Trains to offset lower passenger revenue, ensuring the private rail operator records bumper profits despite patronage falling as a result of work-from-home habits.     

  • Patrick Hatch and Kieran Rooney
Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission chair commissioner Treasure Jennings.

Mental health watchdog muzzled by ‘drastic’ budget cuts

Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission chair Treasure Jennings says the funding cuts leave the commission unable to do the work it was established to do.

  • Chip Le Grand and Grant McArthur
Jaclyn Symes told budget estimates hearings that automation and new technology would be key ways the government could make savings.

Bots to help fill Victoria’s budget hole: State hopes AI can slash costs

Treasurer Jaclyn Symes says AI and automation will help the government find $3.3 billion in savings.

  • Daniella White