Emile Pavlich Freelance Journalist Portfolio

Investigations

Abc

10/08/2025

Police alerting accused offenders and lawyers as hundreds of cases re-examined

Police have arrested a digital forensics officer and are investigating whether his work compromised hundreds of cases over nearly a decade including sexual offence and child abuse cases.

Abc

02/07/2026

Fearing for his life, a Canberra-based refugee fled Venezuela

Josh Madrid was arrested for attending a pro-democracy protest in Venezuela. 24 hours later, he fled his homeland, fearing he would be killed by the government.

Abc

10/24/2025

Regional newsroom staff say AI rollout leading to potential errors

Staff and a union say a generative AI model being tested in Australian Community Media's regional newspapers is misattributing facts and leaving some fearing for their jobs.

Abc

05/07/2025

Land for long-awaited housing project becomes homeless campground

The site of a regional social housing project promised seven years ago has become a squat for the homeless in Bendigo, Victoria.

Abc

11/04/2025

FOI documents reveal lead-up to failed Bendigo Writers Festival

A founding director of the widely boycotted Bendigo Writers Festival says major sponsor La Trobe University pressured organisers into sending a controversial code of conduct.

ABC listen

08/04/2025

Psychiatrists threatened by violent former patient - ABC listen

Mental health staff in a regional Victorian city say authorities have failed to protect them for years from a violent former patient.

Disaster reporting

Abc

01/29/2025

Residents in Wartook in Victoria's west told to evacuate from bushfires

A bushfire that has raged out of control in Grampians National Park is now threatening private properties in communities across Victoria's west.

Abc

11/19/2024

Residents had just minutes to react as fast-moving blaze tore through western Victoria

A fast-moving fire has flattened a house, severely damaged another and gutted 1,300 hectares of timber plantation and bushland in Victoria's west.

Abc

01/29/2025

Fire chief fears Grampians blazes could join to create 'massive' front

A Country Fire Authority captain says his main concern is if bushfires burning at the northern and southern ends of the Grampians meet up.

Abc

11/16/2024

Property losses reported as Victorian fires threaten Great Ocean Road and state's west

At least one home has been lost to a bushfire threatening communities in Victoria's Wimmera region, as firefighters battle to contain a separate Otway Ranges blaze threatening the Great Ocean Road.

Abc

10/07/2024

Community group launches legal action to protect Murray River flood plains in 'Kakadu of the south'

A Victorian landcare group has filed legal proceedings against the federal government, challenging the approval of artificial flooding as a "dodgy water offset project".

Abc

12/31/2024

Thefts, vandalism, hoax calls frustrate firefighters

Victorian firefighters say thefts and prank calls are taking away valuable resources from brigades already stretched thin amid the worst summer conditions since Black Summer.

Abc

01/04/2024

While presents were being opened on Christmas Day, this town's residents fought off floodwaters

Flooding is becoming an all-too-familiar sight in Kerang, and climate reports are forecasting an extreme risk to the northern Victorian town by 2050.

Courts

Abc

08/06/2025

Judges quash appeal for harsher sentences for intimate partner violence

Victoria's highest court rejects an appeal by prosecutors to increase the sentence of a man convicted of the "brutal" murder of his former partner in Bendigo.

Abc

12/13/2024

Court fines fruit grower after picker dies in fall from moving trailer

A 70-year-old Afghan national died after falling from a moving trailer on his second shift at Cutri Fruit in 2022. The company pleaded guilty to failing to mitigate safety risks.

Abc

01/22/2026

Woman admits to threatening to kill former psychiatrist

A judge tells a Victorian court the safety of healthcare workers must be protected while remanding a mentally ill woman to jail.

First Nations

Abc

04/28/2024

'We're being dispossessed as we sit here': First Nations truth-telling lays bare fight for water...

First Nations groups hold about 40 per cent of Australian land through native title claims, yet own and control less than 0.2 per cent of the country's water.

Abc

04/12/2025

First Nations man died in prison after waiting years for disability support, inquest told

A coroner is told Indigenous man Clinton Austin waited more than two years for NDIS support prior to being found unresponsive in his jail cell.

Abc

10/26/2023

First Nations take legal action over 'inadequate' Murray-Darling water plan consultation

The Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations group launches a legal challenge against the NSW and federal governments, alleging consultation on the state's Fractured Rock Water Resource Plan was not properly conducted.

Abc

05/27/2025

First Nations group seeks local treaty in Victorian premier's electorate

Central Victorian traditional owner group Dja Dja Wurrung has taken a "historic" step towards seeking a state-first local treaty with the government.

Abc

08/08/2025

Nurse breaks down in court recounting prisoner's death

A nurse who treated a First Nations man the morning he died in a central Victorian prison has told an inquest she "should have been more thorough".

Abc

03/28/2025

Prisoner told he had gastro found dead in cell hours later, inquest told

Clinton Austin was said to be struggling to breathe, vomiting and sweating through his clothes before he died while serving a sentence for aggravated burglary.

Energy/Miscellaneous

Abc

11/07/2024

Astron Corporation's Donald rare earths mine sparks debate over Victoria's nuclear prohibition laws

A Victorian mine will start exporting a rare earths concentrate from 2026, which can be processed into commercial quantities of uranium, sparking protests from farmers and an environmental group.

Abc

08/31/2023

These solar energy modules generate enough heat to melt metal. It's hoped they can help solve...

Renewable energy company RayGen has officially opened its $27 million solar and thermal power plant project, in north-west Victoria.

Abc

10/08/2024

Author who has never been on a plane could soon be Australia's second Nobel laureate

Gerald Murnane rarely leaves his tiny Victorian town, but bookies have him among the favourites to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.

Abc

11/06/2025

Federal govt approves expansion of Victoria's largest gold mine

Fosterville Gold Mine in central Victoria is approved to expand despite concerns from neighbours and environmental advocates.

Abc

04/18/2023

AEMO bails on transmission line meeting as farmers protest 'lemon' project

The Australian Energy Market Operator [AEMO] has refused to attend an energy infrastructure consultation meeting in western Victoria after hundreds of people arrived to protest the project.

Abc

07/17/2024

Josh Neille's gritty care for rescued wildlife has made him a social media star and he's hoping...

Wombat joeys prance around Josh Neille's living room and young wallabies slide around on floorboards learning to use their long limbs. It's a sight now familiar to millions of people online.

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ABC News

02/01/2026

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Ethical framework

Emile Pavlich

Freelance journalist in Latin America