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Victoria's triple-zero call-taking service is losing its boss after rebounding from the COVID-19 crisis. Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority...

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Homicide Squad detectives charge two teenage boys following the death of a woman in Abbotsford on Wednesday night.

The head of Victoria’s emergency call-taking service asked the state’s health safety watchdog to drop or delay an investigation into deaths linked to long delays.

Thirty-three deaths are now linked to a collapse in call-taking performance, according to an independent report and what Victoria’s inspector-general for emergency management.

The former chairman of Victoria’s triple-zero service was pressured to resign after asking the state government for a long-term solution to a funding method he said was fundamentally flawed.

Victoria’s triple-zero agency has repeatedly lobbied the state government since 2015 to provide consistent funding to recruit staff and cater for heightened demand, sources say.

Victoria’s triple-zero call service was blindsided by the Omicron emergency after wrongly assuming that COVID-19 infections would keep falling as the Delta wave subsided.

On Monday, two Andrews government ministers were unable to say what Victorians, like Ms Wood, should do in an emergency if their triple-zero call was not picked up.

The Victorian government is injecting an “immediate” $115.6 million (US$85 million) into the state’s Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority ...