victoria
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Poisonous mushroom warning
Victoria’s chief health officer, Dr Christian McGrath, has issued a warning of poisonous mushrooms growing in Victoria. Poisonous mushrooms, including the death cap and yellow-staining mushrooms, appear in Victoria during autumn, as the weather becomes wetter and cooler. Dr McGrath warned that consuming even a single death cap mushroom could result in death. He said…
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Host of COVID restrictions scrapped
Close contact quarantine, proof of vaccination and mask mandates for most settings have been scrapped with a raft of other pandemic orders. Minister for Health Martin Foley changed restrictions on Friday following a near 70 per cent uptake of the third COVID vaccination. “As the peak of the Omicron wave begins to subside… Victoria will…
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NEW FREEDOMS WITH FIRST DOSE TARGET REACHED TOMORROW
Thanks to the incredible efforts of the community, Victoria will hit its 70 per cent first dose vaccination target tomorrow – becoming the second state in Australia to do so. With this milestone, new freedoms can take effect – but emerging risks must be addressed and Victorians need to keep the momentum going to hit…
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Coronavirus update for Victoria
Twenty-one new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Victoria yesterday, bringing the total cumulative number of cases to 1762. Of the new cases, 15 have been detected in returned overseas travellers in hotel quarantine, two are linked to existing outbreaks and four have been identified through community testing. One of the new cases identified through…
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Valuer-General calls Woodend home
Woodend residents could be forgiven for taking pride in the knowledge that Victoria’s Valuer-General also chose the area to call home. Robert Marsh has lived in the district with his family – wife Victoria and daughters Lucy and Sophie – since the late 1990s, originally on a farmlet just out of town but now in…
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Urgent repair order
Heritage Victoria has demanded the owners of the old Kyneton Hospital secure and protect the historic site or face large fines. Heritage Victoria served the Show Cause Notice to the site owners on August 3 for allowing the place to fall into disrepair to the extent that its conservation is threatened. The Kyneton Hospital is…
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Flicking the switch for energy bills
A green energy push is expected to help Victorians save around $890 a year on their power bills with half price solar panels at no up-front cost, under a re-elected Andrews Labor Government. Under the $1.24 billion program, Victorians will be able to install a solar panel system for half price and pay the rest…