Patrick Hatch
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Carroll pledges random search powers for police to crack down on knife crime (opens the original)
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Police and PSOs would have the power to randomly search people anywhere in public with metal detectors, without needing a warrant or reasonable suspicion they have a weapon, under an election promise by Premier Ben Carroll. Carroll will on Wednesday pledge to implement a version of “Jack’s Law” in Victoria, modelled on a law first introduced in Queensland and copied in NSW, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Named after 17-year-old Jack Beasley, who was fatally stabbed in Su
Melbourne Assembly (opens the original)
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The Age brings together the people, ideas and conversations shaping the future of our city, culminating in a major conference in October. You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The loss of entrepreneurs to larger markets worries industry leaders, but some experts are choosing to advance their careers in the city’s growing start-up sector instead of Silicon Valley or other global hubs. Melbourne’s innovation precincts are brimming with
The secret weapon Melbourne can use to ward off brain drain (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. Melbourne’s celebrated liveability is its secret weapon in the fight to attract more high-skilled workers and entrepreneurs, and keep them here while they build the industries of the future. While so-called brain drain continues to be a concern among industry leaders, the city’s growing start-up sector is providing career paths for experts who previously would have been drawn to Silicon Valley or
One Nation Victoria leader admits to drug use, drink-driving (opens the original)
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One Nation’s Victorian leader Warren Pickering has admitted using illicit drugs including methamphetamines as a young man, a day after denying allegations about his drug use made by his former partner. Pickering, who is contesting the marginal seat of Pakenham at November’s state election, acknowledged on Tuesday that he had used marijuana and methamphetamines after initially rejecting his former partner’s claims and threatening legal action over their publication. He maintained that he had neve
How innovation hubs at Parkville and Clayton can put Melbourne on top of the world (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. High-tech industries including biomedicine and robotics will help future-proof jobs and drive Melbourne’s prosperity, as long as the city becomes audacious about attracting world-leading expertise and keeping it here. Parkville is already considered one of the world’s leading biomedical precincts, with hopes that Clayton can become another major innovation hub. However, experts say Melbourne’s abi
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