With temperatures set to reach 40 degrees, NYE fireworks displays along the surf coast have been cancelled and fire bans are in place across the state. The Turnbull government locks in the numbers for victory on its Gonski 2. A male taxi driver is charged with one count of dangerous driving causing death after his taxi crashed into a mini bus killing one woman and injuring a dozen others in the state's north. Six taxis are destroyed in a suspicious blaze which engulfed a taxi depot in Tullamarine on Wednesday morning.

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