Ben Carroll Education Minister

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Nominations are now open for a new category of the Premier’s VCE Awards 2023 which recognises the outstanding achievements of Victoria’s first VCE Vocational Major (VM) students. Minister for Education Ben Carroll today encouraged teachers across the state to get in early and nominate high-performing students for the Outstanding VCERead More →

Feeling financial hardship, get help

Are you experiencing financial hardship, difficulties? Finding it harder to pay your bills? Don’t know where the money should come from to pay your child’s school fees next year? There is some help. Not exactly free money but free professional help to organize your affairs better through these tough times.Read More →

Victorian Hindus funeral rites

Although Victorian Hindus (Indians) can be traced as far back as 1796 in Australia, they are so willing to ‘fit in’ by nature that the community has been making adjustments not only with their social and cultural beliefs but also with religious rights and rituals for more than 200 years.Read More →

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The Leader of the Opposition, the Hon Peter Dutton MP, is visiting Delhi, India, from 1 to 4 November 2023. During this trip Mr Dutton will meet with political representatives, business leaders, and visit organisations supporting schooling and education programmes, as well as addressing an event at the India AustraliaRead More →

non-fatal strangulation stand-alone offence

Victorians experiencing family violence will have more protection with the creation of new stand-alone non-fatal strangulation offences. The Allan Labor Government today introduced the Crimes Amendment (Non-fatal Strangulation) Bill 2023 into Parliament in response to advocacy and research which shows that someone who survives non-fatal strangulation by a current or former partner isRead More →