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Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas.

The multibillion-dollar blow primed to hit Victorian taxpayers and the budget

Government agencies will fork out $15 billion a year for insurance claims by 2028, a 36 per cent surge that threatens to rock the state’s already struggling finances.

  • by Kieran Rooney
Photos taken during a police raid on a Taylors Lake “grow house” in 2023. Melbourne University economists estimate Australia’s cannabis market to be worth upwards of $5 billion annually.

Criminalising cannabis: How Australia’s war on weed hurts the poor

Most cannabis possession arrests happen in Victoria’s poorest suburbs and towns. A new approach is needed, says the Penington Institute.

  • by Clay Lucas

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