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Abuk Akol cannot stop the visions of her son Kioyom, stabbed and abandoned in a park in Melbourne’s west. There were witnesses. She wants them to speak up.

Abuk Akol cannot stop the visions of her son Kioyom, stabbed and abandoned in a park in Melbourne’s west. There were witnesses. She wants them to speak up.

Abuk Akol cannot stop the visions of her son Kioyom, stabbed and abandoned in a park in Melbourne’s west. There were witnesses. She wants them to speak up.

Women and girls constitute more than half the population, require the toilet more frequently and take longer in it. Yet buildings usually have more facilities for men. What can be done?

Once a painter’s paradise, this suburb has swapped towering gums and dense bush for looming skyscrapers and the Suburban Rail Loop.

However much Allan may wish to draw a line between her government and that of Daniel Andrews, on a host of unresolved problems and failures, Allan herself is the point of continuity between that era and the one she is trying to establish as her own.

Once a painter’s paradise, this suburb has swapped towering gums and dense bush for looming skyscrapers and the Suburban Rail Loop.

Readers discuss the disparity in funding between public and private schools after news this week of Melbourne’s Presbyterian Ladies College (PLC) private school spending $85 million on a new swimming pool complex.

Swan Hill man Bruce Lea, 40, faced Bendigo Magistrates Court on Friday over the death of his older brother.

The proportion of Victorian women having vaginal births is at an all-time low, with midwives concerned by the health impacts on mothers and babies.

The proportion of Victorian women having vaginal births is at an all-time low, with midwives concerned by the health impacts on mothers and babies.

A 16-year-old boy accused of ambushing a female jogger, throwing her to the ground and raping her in a random attack has been released back into the community.

Calls to expand Melbourne’s free tram zone to landmarks and inner suburbs have been shot down by transport advocates who say paying commuters are being crowded out.

Nearly 50 candidates will waltz into council chambers across the state, elected unopposed. Even some of the lucky winners fear the impact on democracy.

“I stood up, completely spent, utterly out of breath but relieved that I had survived the scariest and most dangerous arrest of my career.”