The Victorian Government is providing more relief for Victorians struggling to pay their rent with new grants to help them keep their tenancies.

The Victorian Government is supporting more women to make their mark in sports broadcasting, launching a new program to address the lack of gender diversity in the industry.

The Victorian Government is ensuring all Victorians can continue to access the critical help they need to stay safe and well with more than $27 million for food and financial relief for our most vulnerable, a boost to family violence services, and more support for our culturally diverse communities.

The Victorian Government is investing in a world-first medical device that will help more critically ill newborns get access to potentially lifesaving care.

Victoria will become the first state or territory in Australia to make the public display of Nazi symbols illegal – in a landmark reform to help stamp out hateful behaviour and boost human rights protections.

The Victorian Government is creating thousands of extra kinder places with a huge statewide boost to early education infrastructure ─ making sure young children across the state can access and enjoy Three-Year-Old Kinder.

The Victorian Government is helping local councils upgrade libraries, improve playgrounds and build better community facilities for growing communities.

Over the past 72 hours, the advice from our public health team has been that we still had a promising chance to bring this under control and to bring cases down. We were charting our way out of this outbreak with easing at thresholds of lower cases.

Residents in Melbourne’s outer north will soon have greater access to the health services they need, closer to home, with a preferred site identified for the new City of Whittlesea Community Hospital.