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New data from Melbourne City Mission has laid bare the scale of youth homelessness across Victoria, with figures for the Latrobe and Gippsland region painting a stark picture of young people trapped in trauma, mental health crisis and long-term housing instability.

Tarwin Lower Primary School is among 330 schools across Victoria to receive funding for vegetation clearance and expert bushfire safety advice, with the state government announcing more than $8 million to protect school communities ahead of the upcoming fire season.

South Gippsland welcomed 43 new citizens at a citizenship ceremony at Memorial Hall in Leongatha last Wednesday, with people from England, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, Scotland, South Africa, Switzerland and Thailand formally pledging their commitment to their new home.

It has been four years in the planning, but a project designed to provide some of the most basic necessities to people doing it tough across the Corner Inlet district is finally set to become a reality.

H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza has arrived in eastern Victoria, with the state confirming 53 birds from 37 locations, include at Clyde in Melbourne's south east, as of 8am on 9 August.

South Gippsland Shire Councillor Sarah Gilligan has co-chaired a National Coastal Council roundtable in Canberra, returning with a clear and pointed message: coastal communities are already on the front line of climate change, the federal and state governments are moving too slowly.