👤 Grant McArthur

2026-10-31 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law

Arson attacks now so ‘routine’ that firefighters are being warned before a flame is lit

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2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health

‘A priority crisis’: cohealth hires former minister’s top adviser

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2026-10-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health

Path to ruin: How Victoria’s mental health watchdog was stripped of its power

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2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health

Mental health watchdog secretly puts a line through vital investigations

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2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

The simple change to how we deal with rough sleepers that could clear Melbourne’s streets

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2026-09-27 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health

Paramedics to lead mental health emergencies, as police take back seat

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2026-09-27 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Police will take a back seat during mental health emergency callouts and allow paramedics and health specialists to lead responses under a new agreement intended to better safeguard thousands of highly vulnerable people. assertive

2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Street homelessness could be drastically reduced across Victoria over the next decade under an ambitious plan to find rough sleepers and connect them with services rather than waiting for people to seek help. assertive

2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Internal records from that meeting, seen by The Age, reveal the commissioners and executives discussed their diminishing capabilities and how they would reprioritise the issues they would continue to scrutinise, and those that would instead be placed on a watch list or ignored altogether. assertive

2026-10-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 A trove of leaked documents reveal how the state’s mental health watchdog was put on a path to ruin by the state government, with its powers, budget, staff and independence slashed to such an extent it could barely perform its safeguarding and oversight roles. assertive

2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Melissa Arch was the long-serving chief of staff for former Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas, and worked by her side to examine the serious cultural and management issues that cohealth faced and attempted to overcome last year. Thomas stepped down from her ministerial position in April after announcing she would not recontest her seat at the November 28 election. assertive

2026-10-31 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 A firefighting source, who cannot be identified publicly, said police were now sometimes issuing alerts to firefighters in advance – called a “pre-warning” – that a target somewhere in their service area could soon be hit. assertive