The acting Premier has defended the state government’s move to suppress bombshell secret court rulings involving the private data of Victorians.

Senior government Minister Danny Pearson has confirmed the health department is actively considering whether to release the advice that plunged Victoria into lockdown in February.

The Victorian Premier has returned fire after one of the world’s biggest newspapers after a headline labelled him a “dictator”.

Victorians caught breaching health orders could be jailed for up to two years under controversial new pandemic-specific legislation tabled in parliament on Tuesday.

The founder of the business caught up in the ‘slug gate’ saga has questioned new laws that protect Victoria’s chief health officer and deputies over public health decisions unrelated to the pandemic.

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Victorians caught breaching health orders could be jailed for up to two years under controversial new pandemic-specific legislation tabled in parliament on Tuesday.

Police, military out in force in Saturday's sunshine as Andrews urges Victorians to 'find a way' through the last weeks of lockdown.

Documents show the Premier pitching for money and expertise from Chinese state-owned companies in October last year with a promise to "facilitate" them and "collaborate" on infrastructure projects.

A sickness of secrecy has long plagued the decision making around Victoria’s pandemic response.

The Victorian Opposition has called for a Labor-led parliamentary inquiry into the state’s corruption watchdog to be immediately reinstated after it was quietly shelved.

Chief health officer Brett Sutton says he has given no advice on mandating a vaccine booster dose, despite Daniel Andrews flagging the idea.

Victorian Deputy Premier James Merlino, Health Minister Martin Foley, Sports Minister Martin Pakula and Police Minister Lisa Neville have officially announced their resignations on Friday.

Labor MP Kaushaliya Vaghela has accused the Andrews government of victim blaming after Premier Daniel Andrews dismissed her bullying accusations as “fantasy without foundation.”

Premier Daniel Andrews says he “may find time” to read a report from Victoria’s independent budget watchdog that accuses the government of hiding the state’s true financial plight.

Victoria’s corruption watchdog has warned the centralisation of power around Premier Daniel Andrews’ private office has created an environment ripe for “soft corruption”.

The secret police files from late 2018 reveal detectives were directed by high-ranking officers to make sure that 16 named members of Parliament “not be arrested, photographed, searched”.

Victoria’s election watchdog is making inquiries into an alleged trick advertising ploy by Labor amid concerns it has targeted swinging voters ahead of November’s poll.

World No.1 Ash Barty respects tennis legend Margaret Court’s amazing career but doesn’t agree with her controversial views.

Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne and Essendon supporter Peter Comensoli has hit out at the “outrageous” and “awful treatment” of Andrew Thorburn.

Victoria’s Health Minister says there will be no change to public transport mask mandates, despite a recent drop in Covid infections.

Victoria’s chief health officer has criticised the federal road map for living with Covid, saying it contains “no explicit recovery phase” and fails to address the fallout of the pandemic of economic...

Secret police documents reveal the mother of a teenage cyclist who almost died in a collision with Daniel Andrews’ car questioned the Premier and his wife’s version of events in a meeting with...

The Victorian ALP should be investigated for bribery over an advertising ploy offering $5 gift cards to fill out a survey spruiking Daniel Andrews, the state opposition says.

Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton instructed lawyers to withhold from the state’s hotel quarantine inquiry a critical email that appears to contradict his sworn evidence that he was not...

Questions have been raised as to whether Daniel Andrews’ social media team doctored a picture of his family voting at a pre-poll centre.

Victoria’s Deputy Chief Health Officer has a long and extensive record of politically partisan and controversial tweets, including attacks­ on Liberal politicians and praise for Labor politicians and...

Several departmental sources have this week claimed that a deliberate decision was made by DHHS and its legal advisers not to give certain emails to the inquiry.

Daniel Andrews says it would be “cowardice’’ for him to resign after a sharply critical inquiry found his government failed to meet its responsibilities over the hotel quarantine program that...

The Andrews government is set to consider scaling back the powers of the state’s Chief Health Officer and giving the Health Minister greater control over public health orders.

Victoria’s Mental Health Minister was warned by his department that two suicides linked to job ­losses had occurred shortly after Melbourne was thrust into its fourth coronavirus lockdown.

In a rare and expansive one-on-one interview, the Premier questioned if state Coalition MPs wanted political violence to stem from anti-government protests.

Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas is not expected to make public two independent reviews into COVID-19 rules, such as vaccine mandates, before the election.

The Victorian Opposition is calling for Deputy Chief Health Officer Annaliese van Diemen to resign over her comments comparing the "terror" of COVID-19 to Captain Cook's arrival in Australia.