Current sexting laws mean young people are winding up on the Sex Offenders Register who shouldn't be there, some legal experts have told a parliamentary inquiry. Swinburne University students Dimity Hawkins and Simeon Barut investigate as part of Crikey's series The Sext Files.
Draconian anti-sexting laws may end up unfairly designating teenagers involved in taking the images as sex offenders. Swinburne University students Bridget Northeast and Justin Daly investigate.
It's easy to condemn explicit texting -- but the victims may not be who you think. Crikey and Swinburne University journalism students today begin a new series into the issue. Andrew Dodd and Ken Haley explain.
Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle's re-election bid -- widely regarded as a fait accompli -- could still be derailed by an insurgent Greens machine that remains confident of victory if the party can snag over 20% of the primary vote.
Jeff Kennett and Peter Newman think creating a rail subway in Melbourne would be visionary, but it wouldn't address the key factors that drive public transport demand, writes Alan Davies.
The ALP is bracing for a nuclear fallout from the coming Ombudsman's report into Darebin council, with fears that a bevy of councillors and prominent factional players will be accused of dubious activity that could cast a pall over the party's northern suburbs membership base.
A trend of increasing Liberal support in the electorate of Deakin, in eastern Melbourne, is better explained by diminishing ethnic diversity than by income, writes William Bowe.
Labor has drawn level on the two-party preferred vote in Victoria, the first time Labor has been even with the Coalition in any poll, state or federal, since March last year, writes William Bowe.
The management of a major Melbourne hospital has been dragged into the battle for control of the remnants of the Health Services Union after a Kathy Jackson-rival was barred from campaigning at St Vincent's Hospital.
Commercial labour hire firms employed to find fill-ins for teacher sickies are creaming millions of dollars each year from Victoria taxpayers.
