The first report of longitudinal study Maximising Impact has highlighted the chronic, often lifelong disadvantage experienced by social housing tenants, revealing complex needs for which effective public housing is a crucial social safety net.

Reporter Bec Jordan spoke with lead researcher Dr Sarah Taylor about the study and its findings.

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Reporters Laura Green and Holly Mark spoke with Annette Herrera from the University of Melbourne - a co-convener of the University’s Casuals Network - who has been lobbying with the National Tertiary Education Union to retrieve what the union believes to be up to $6 million of stolen wages for at least 1,500 university staff.

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Mary's Group owners defended comments made in their podcast The Fat, calling some youth hospitality workers "self-entitled, little f-s". Their discussion was made popular after it was featured in a Sydney Morning Herald article.

In response, Millie Spencer spoke to hospitality workers Matt Hirst and Athos Sirianos, and Izzy Tolhurst from the Foundation for Young Australians about what these comments mean for young hospitality workers.

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Proposed laws which would have prevented the families of deceased sexual assault victims from publicly identifying their loved ones without a court order has been rejected by the Victorian Parliament.

Reporter Bec Jordan explored what these laws mean for assault victims and their families in an interview with Dr Racheal Burgin from Swinburne University about the bill.

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The 2020-21 Victorian State Budget was announced today and features an extraordinary amount of spending on infrastructure, mental health and education.

Reporters Bec Jordan and Millie Spencer spoke to Youth Affairs Council CEO Katherine Ellis about what is in the budget for young people.

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Although the Trump campaign is largely failing to prove pervasive electoral fraud in the 2020 U.S presidential election, mail-in ballots are not immune to interference.

Currently, the Victorian Police are investigating suspected vote-rigging in Moreland Council’s North-West Ward.

Reporter Jeremy Nadel spoke to Stephen Luntz, an expert on voting processes, about postal ballot fraud.

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As Melbourne begins to open up again after months of COVID-19 lockdown orders, friendships are under pressure as people try to reconnect.

Millie Spencer and Emily Spindler-Carruthers spoke to young Melburnians about how the fallout from the pandemic is impacting social groups, and what friendships might look like as restrictions ease further.

This was originally published in the Swinburne Standard.

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Today is International Men’s Day. It has been running for the last 21 years and aims to showcase the positive contributions men bring to daily life as well as raise awareness for the issues they face.

Youssef Saudie explores the day's significance and its controversies from November 2019.

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