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Given the state’s massive and rising debt, Victorians might have expected that is where the budget focus would sit. Not at all.

Readers respond to the problems that parents and residents face around school drop-off, and changes to planning rules.

Who are the winners and losers in this year’s state budget?

The bikies stalked and shot dead Mitat Rasimi just metres from his home in a crime described by a judge as “outrageous and brutally violent”.

Dr Matthew Sorell told the jury connections to tower base stations can change from one to another with as little movement as a person going from the front door of their home to the back door.