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In response to another annual report – showing 10 executives at the agency set up to run the since-cancelled 2026 Commonwealth Games were on $300,00, and another was on $500,000 – Allan has defended the salaries:
All the executive salaries for the Commonwealth Games officials were benchmarked against industry standards, particularly when you consider the specific expertise that was needed at that point in time.
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Poor seatbelt use contributing to Victoria’s deadliest road toll since 2016, Allan says
The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, says poor seatbelt use is a factor in the state’s growing road toll.
The Transport Accident Commission’s annual report shows that the first 10 months of 2023 has been the deadliest on Victoria’s roads since 2016 and the second deadliest since 2010, with 32 more fatalities than during the same period in 2022.
Meanwhile, the Victoria police annual report shows there has been more than 500,000 fewer breath tests and mobile road safety cameras in operation.
Asked whether these factors contributed to the rising toll, Allan pointed instead to poor seatbelt use – with offences having grown by 15% since 2021-22.
She said:
There’s a number of factors that are contributing to the rise we’ve seen this year in the road toll in recent months and road safety experts have spoken to the fact that [what] we are seeing [is] really alarming, an increasing number of people who are just not wearing a seatbelt.
More and more people who are being detected through the use of improved technology using their mobile phone while driving. So there’s a lot of work that goes on in both road safety measures and detection and enforcement
But it also is really incumbent upon all of us as road users to drive safely. Put on your seatbelt – that’s like the most common sense thing to do, one of the most important safety measures you can take when you get behind the wheel.
Updated at 19.40 EDT41m ago19.18 EDT
Victorian premier reiterates spit hoods are prohibited in state after use on child in prison
The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has reiterated that spit hoods have been banned in the state, after a report highlighted a shocking case of its use on a child.
The child, who being held in an adult prison, was placed in a spit hood while spending months confined to his cell for up to 23 hours a day, the state’s Commission for Children and…
2023-11-01 18:49:16
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