December 2022
Andrews replaces planning minister in minor cabinet reshuffle
Lizzie Blandthorn loses planning portfolio to avoid potential conflict of interest with her lobbyist brother.
- Gus McCubbing
November 2022
Victorian parliament likely to be ‘less bizarre’ than the last term
Labor will likely have to work with a progressive bloc in the Victorian upper house including Fiona Patten, the Greens and Legalise Cannabis members.
- Gus McCubbing
‘Star Wars scene’: Daniel Andrews faces ‘wild’ upper house
A returned Labor government in Victoria faces a hostile and potentially unworkable parliament heavily influenced by both the religious right and green left.
- Patrick Durkin and Gus McCubbing
July 2022
- Analysis
- Inside Government
Curtailing the dark arts of political staffers
The damning report on Victoria’s Labor factional warlords is another reminder the public is well over the political class living by its own rule book.
- Tom Burton
- Exclusive
- Victorian election
Andrews sorry for Labor’s ‘disgraceful behaviour’, but faces new probe
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews apologised to the public for his party’s “shameful” actions, saying he takes “full responsibility”.
- Updated
- Patrick Durkin
Victorian Liberals seek to use IBAC to ‘stain’ Andrews
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will face fresh pressure to respond to allegations of branch stacking and the misuse of taxpayer funds by the state Labor Party.
- Patrick Durkin
April 2022
Why old mate Andrews could hurt Albanese
Victorian Liberals were already saying Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese was the premier’s puppet. New reports related to the corruption watchdog will not help.
- Patrick Durkin
March 2022
Bullying allegations rock Labor
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese is being blamed by some in the ALP for not supporting deceased Labor senator Kimberley Kitching in her battle to retain preselection.
- Phillip Coorey
February 2022
Andrews faces fresh ‘red shirts’ probe after Labor MP crosses floor
The Victorian Premier faces a fresh probe into the infamous rort after an MP crossed the parliamentary floor to vote with ousted Labor powerbroker Adem Somyurek.
- Patrick Durkin
December 2021
Politics comes full circle for Luba Grigorovitch
While the temporary suspending of party democracy has worked in Grigorovitch’s favour this time, that hasn’t always been the case.
- Myriam Robin
November 2021
Victoria’s pandemic law wins critical support
Debate over the controversial pandemic powers bill went on past midnight as the Victorian government tried to push through the laws.
- Tom Burton
Daniel Andrews did the same as the rest of us: Adem Somyurek
The former Victorian Labor powerbroker has accused the Premier of doing all the things other Labor politicians had done as part of his “apprenticeship”.
- Hannah Wootton
Adem Somyurek implicates Andrews, Shorten in Labor’s ‘gang warfare’
Former Victorian minister Adem Somyurek says there is no political will to stamp out taxpayer-funded staff from doing political work.
- Patrick Durkin
‘I’m an idiot [but] I’m not resigning’: Tim Smith MP
Victorian Liberal MP Tim Smith will not resign from parliament but is still considering his future.
- Patrick Durkin
October 2021
Taxpayer-funded staffer spent up to 80pc of time on Labor factional work
The revelation before Victoria’s corruption watchdog comes despite politicians’ use of electoral staff for such tasks risking breaking rules about misuse.
- Hannah Wootton
- Updated
- Corruption
Minister resigns amid claims of ‘entrenched’ branch stacking
Luke Donnellan admitted breaching Labor Party rules while a minister in Victoria but denies misusing public funds.
- Hannah Wootton
Andrews braces for IBAC double trouble
Victorian MPs are closing ranks behind Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews as he braces to be dragged into two separate independent corruption inquiries.
- Patrick Durkin
October 2020
- Exclusive
- Coronavirus pandemic
Former top cops blast Andrews' power grab
Victoria Police's former chief commissioner Kel Glare and a group of former police commissioners and top cops have blasted Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' proposed new powers as dangerous and undemocratic.
- Patrick Durkin
June 2020
- Opinion
- Kevin Rudd
Faceless men want power in Labor, not Labor in power
Don't be fooled by the factional thugs' brazen rewriting of history 10 years later, says Australia's 26th prime minister.
- Kevin Rudd
- Exclusive
- Julia Gillard
'Faceless men' say they'd do it again in a heartbeat
Ten years on and key players on both sides of coup against Kevin Rudd have not changed their views.
- Phillip Coorey