Meanwhile, expert says bird flu detected on Murray-Darling basin ‘should be ringing alarm bells’. Follow updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Ben Carroll vows to boost Victoria’s school funding to meet the Gonski standards Victoria’s new premier, Ben Carroll, says the state government will boost its funding for public schools before the November election, and opening up a pathway for a federal cash injection. You’ve had that degrading of the support for the major parties, 80% to 50% in the life of Insiders, and that’s quite extraordinary. It happened kind of like bankruptcy, slowly, and then all at once. The all at once period was pretty much just in the lead up to the last election. Continue reading...