Clay Lucas
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‘Cooked’: This $1.1b data centre mirrors Melbourne’s much wider conflict (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The large, empty block a few streets from Michael McKenzie Hocking’s house has been vacant for years. On Thursday, a small herd of cows grazed on its long grass. The only public sign that a $1.1 billion data centre could soon be built here was recent graffiti reading: “Data centres are cooked”. But that got taken down almost immediately. “I don’t remember ever seeing a formal sign put up there say
15-metre power poles started to pop up in inner Melbourne. Now the rollout has come to a sudden halt (opens the original)
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One of the nation’s biggest power companies has paused the rollout of five-storey power poles through suburban Melbourne streets following a fierce community blockade that has opened a fresh front in the fight against the data centre boom. Electricity distributor Jemena’s retreat comes as the state government prepares new rules to control development of high-energy data centre projects across Victoria in response to rising opposition that has also seen the federal government flag new regulations
The obscure 10,000-item list of medical devices costing patients billions (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Weeks before the 2022 federal election, a deal made inside then-health minister Greg Hunt’s office locked 14 million privately insured Australians into paying some of the highest prices in the world for surgical hardware. Federal bureaucrats later told Hunt’s successor, Mark Butler, that the deal went against their advice because it “predominantly benefited industry rather than providing a negotia
‘Marshall should go’: Top corruption buster says fire union boss unfit to lead (opens the original)
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The workplace regulator should try to oust United Firefighters Union leader Peter Marshall from office over findings by Victoria’s corruption commission of backroom misconduct, according to prominent anti-corruption barrister Geoffrey Watson, SC. Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission released its Operation Richmond report on Wednesday, following a long-running legal battle by Marshall to prevent its release. It detailed events from 2014 to 2019 as the state Labor governme
Champagne toasts, text boasts and treachery aplenty: Unpacking IBAC’s bombshell report (opens the original)
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Triumphant champagne toasts, 4am phone calls to the premier, streams of texts, phoney meetings, board-stacking, prolific profanity and treachery aplenty. The eight-year investigation by Victoria’s corruption watchdog into Daniel Andrews’ time as premier and his government’s dealings with the United Firefighters Union may not have delivered any findings of corruption, but there were still plenty of jaw-dropping moments in its 120-page exposition of how power is wielded in this state. In sometimes
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