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Taxi rank funding set to improve safety
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- Thursday, 06 October 2011
Applications are now open for the next round of the $4 million Taxi Rank Safety Program (TRSP), which provides infrastructure grants to councils throughout Victoria to improve local taxi ranks.
States unite to stop travelling con men
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- Thursday, 06 October 2011
Victoria and New South Wales have joined forces to tackle travelling con men and groups who rip off consumers with dishonest offers of home improvements and repairs.
Harvest results depend on good finishing rains
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- Thursday, 06 October 2011
Victoria's grain harvest looks to be about 900,000 tonnes down on last season, despite only a slight overall drop in the area sown to crop this season.
Minister launches Box Hill Youth Mental Health Hub
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- Thursday, 06 October 2011
Young people in Melbourne's eastern suburbs now have access to their own mental health hub.
Conference delivers best practice initiatives
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- Thursday, 06 October 2011
Minister for Local Government Jeanette Powell today opened the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia (IPWEA) annual Strategic Contract Management and Procurement Conference at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre.
$400,000 funding boost for volunteering diversity
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- Thursday, 06 October 2011
The rich diversity of Victoria's volunteers will be celebrated under a new $400,000 Victorian Coalition Government Valuing Diversity in Volunteering Program announced today by Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional and Rural Development Peter Ryan.
Victorian regions bound to grow and prosper
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- Thursday, 06 October 2011
The answer to balancing the state's future population growth lies within regional Victoria, Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional and Rural Development Peter Ryan said today.
Victorian sculpture to comfort young patients at new Royal Children’s Hospital
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- Thursday, 06 October 2011
Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu visited the new Royal Children's Hospital today to unveil the hospital's stunning new centrepiece artwork by Melbourne artist Alexander Knox.
Premier announces $800,000 regional leadership grant for Committee for Ballarat
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- Wednesday, 05 October 2011
During a keynote address at the Committee for Ballarat spring dinner tonight, Premier Ted Baillieu announced the Committee for Ballarat has been granted $800,000 over four years to continue the Leadership Ballarat and Western Region program.
Premier launches print partnership urging country communities to talk the road toll down
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- Wednesday, 05 October 2011
Premier Ted Baillieu today launched a new campaign that will urge country communities to Talk the Toll Down under a new partnership between 60 of Victoria's regional newspapers and the Transport Accident Commission (TAC).
