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11/09/2026

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Farmers are embarking on the fourth largest winter harvest on record as the diesel price rises again.

10/09/2026

Around 5.5 million Australians live with disability, that’s one in every five people who are potentially more vulnerable to increasing fires, floods and storms.

👉 Read more about how to plan for an emergency at abc.net.au/emergency.

09/09/2026

Regional Victorian communities in the state's west are calling for the return of passenger rail services across major routes.

Experts believe the reintroduction of the Ballarat-Geelong service is the most feasible, but some candidates support the revival of the passenger services to Mildura and Horsham.

Read here: https://ab.co/3Tk7ZN2

03/09/2026

Nearly 100 regional doctors from hospitals in Bendigo and Ballarat have walked off the job on Thursday, amid a dispute over pay and working conditions.

Emergency surgeries have continued through the four-hour stop work.

Despite a year of negotiations, the Australian Medical Association of Victoria said the state government has not tabled a pay offer.

Premier Ben Carroll said his government is working to resolve the industrial dispute.

"We have a number of EBAs in the health sector that we're working on and we'll continue to back our health workers, continue to support them and we'll do everything we can to make sure these are resolved as quickly as possible," Mr Carroll said.

The doctors rally in Central Victoria comes after thousands of their metro counterparts rallied in Melbourne's C*D in mid-August.

31/08/2026

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29/08/2026

"Australia's got a huge w**d problem. It's our most expensive land management problem, our most expensive nature conservation problem," Dr Carol Booth of the Invasive Species Council said. Bunnings Warehouse Australia

The Invasive Species Council wants the common sweet pea plant, Polygala myrtifolia, with its pretty purple flowers recognised as a significant w**d and removed from sale.

24/08/2026

Business owners in regional Victoria say the closure of their town's abandoned asylum will be an "economic catastrophe".

The Aradale asylum was a psychiatric hospital that operated until 1993 in Ararat, about two and a half hours north-west of Melbourne.

Read here: https://ab.co/4wM84Xy

21/08/2026

Flood ☔ Information ⏰ Sunday 23 August 👉 This is the final update. All SES warnings downgraded to Advice. Moderate flooding is occurring on the Avoca River downstream of Charlton Town.

ℹ️ http://www.bom.gov.au/warning/flood-warning/IDV36820
⚬ ABC Emergency map: abc.net.au/emergency/incidentsearch/vic
⚬ Vic Emergency map: emergency.vic.gov.au/

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20/08/2026

Ballarat killer Lachlan Young has been cleared of ra**ng a teenager months before he murdered his girlfriend, Hannah McGuire.

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18/08/2026

New Premier Ben Carroll has made his first visit to the regions - and promised his new Roads Minister will investigate the quality of pothole repairs.

Find the full interview with Nic Healey on the Victorian Statewide Mornings page.