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A long-fought-for social impact study of Latrobe Valley to help guide, and monitor, its economic transition has begun at Monash University Gippsland.

Carbon tax-related changes are set to wipe hundreds of millions of dollars from Latrobe Valley power generators' budgets, compromising their future investment in the region.

STUDENT confusion reigned on Friday over witholding the release of Monash semester results, with some citing anger over union-imposed bans potentially affecting them.

Worksafe is investigating an incident in which a 38 year-old man died after being hit by a falling branch at a logging coupe near Yinnar South.

SAFETY issues on a notorious stretch of road, particularly for motorcyclists, will be addressed with almost $300,000 in new funding.

It has emerged the driver of a utility in a Glengarry crash, which killed two Sale men in March, was driving under the influence of alcohol and with a suspended driver's licence.

EnergyAustralia has vowed to this week formulate a response to revised enterprise agreement claims for Yallourn Power Station operators, following 10 months of negotiations.

THE Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has responded to claims by EnergyAustralia workers not locked out of the Yallourn plant of were the victims of harassment and threatening behaviour as they entered and left the site.

The wives of workers entering their fourth week of an EnergyAustralia-imposed lockout of the Yallourn Power Station say their families are suffering financial strain and emotional turmoil as a result of the industrial deadlock.

Latrobe Valley's creative heart was thumping in downtown Morwell on Friday night.

The first sod is yet to be turned on a $1.2 million Traralgon housing project for people with a severe mental illness, but one advocacy group has already set plans in motion to duplicate the facility in every major Gippsland town.

A PROPOSAL by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to radically overhaul the process of electing the Australian Labor Party's leader has been widely welcomed by local union representatives, despite a 'crisis' meeting of some national union bosses reportedly being held over the plans tomorrow.