POLITICS: A damning Ombudsman report finds 21 Victorian Labor MPs breached parliamentary guidelines in a $388,000 rort at the 2014 state election. (March). It leads to an active police investigation into what is now known as the red shirts affair, implicating up to 21 MPs, including six ministers. (Aug)

POLITICS: Daniel Andrews' Labor government is re-elected for a second term in a landslide victory. Three days later he unveils his new front bench, with half of ministerial positions going to women. (Nov) Opposition leader Matthew Guy and state Liberal Party President Michael Kroger resign in the wake of the thumping. (Dec)

COURT: James Gargasoulas is found guilty of six murders after mowing down pedestrians on Melbourne's Bourke Street in January 2017 after what he described as a "premonition from God". (Nov)

TERROR: A knife attack on Bourke Street launched by Hassan Khalif Shire Ali kills Italian restaurateur Sisto Malaspina and injures two other men. The attacker later died in hospital. Malaspina is remembered for his warmth and "out there" fashion sense at a state funeral. (Nov)

MEDICAL: Surgeons at Melbourne's Royal Childrens Hospital successfully separate conjoined Bhutanese twins Nima and Dawa in a six-hour operation. A team of up to 25 doctors helped to separate the 15-month-olds, who were joined at the torso and shared a liver. (Nov)

COURT: Three men - Hamza Abbas, Abdullah Chaarani and Ahmed Mohamed - are found guilty of plotting a Christmas Day 2016 terror attack in Melbourne. (Nov)

Australian Associated Press