Peter Hunt

The debt-ridden Allan Government wants to force farmers to “periodically” update their property identification code details and impose a fee as part of the process.

Soil moisture levels have plummeted across western and southern Victoria, drying out grassland and forests, exacerbating the risk of major bushfires.

Victoria flags licensing stock agents

South Australia has topped the rankings when it comes to imposing penalties for water overuse, slugging 191 irrigators with $2.3m in fines dating back to the 2022-23 season.

The Allan Government has broken promises to introduce legislation this year delivering radical animal welfare reforms and converting the Wombat and Lerderderg state forests into national parks.

The United Firefighters Union (UFU) is strangling the CFA, leaving it without 20 per cent of the career commanders and assistant chief fire officers it needs, according to Victoria’s Fire Services Implementation Monitor’s latest report.

The depths of Victoria’s debt crisis has been exposed with billions of dollars wiped off community, business and regional support.The state government dumped 162 annual reports on parliament in the past week which revealed:

Minyip locals have reported about half of Squadron Energy’s Murra Warra wind turbines are out of action, after their bearings failed just six years after being switched on.

Parks Victoria has almost halved the 111 services it carries out across 4.12 million hectares of public land, cutting rabbit and fox control, rubbish collection and educational programs.

The NSW Government has flagged it will compulsorily acquire flood easements over 4000 Murray and Murrumbidgee landholders’ properties to ease constraints on environmental flows, if voluntary negotiations fail.