Derryn Hinch

March 2024

City of Melbourne

Former Gillard adviser to become Melbourne lord mayor after Capp exits

Ex-Labor insider Nicholas Reece will take over from Sally Capp in June but will face stiff competition for the job later this year.

Mar 28, 2024
Gus McCubbing

November 2022

Victorian election

Reason Party MP Fiona Patten remains locked in a tight contest with former Labor powerbroker Adem Somyurek for a spot in Victoria’s upper house.

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.

Nov 28, 2022
Gus McCubbing

Victorian election

Former federal senator and radio host Derryn Hinch will run for state parliament.

‘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.

Nov 10, 2022
Patrick Durkin and Gus McCubbing

November 2019

Defamation nation

Sarah Hanson-Young and David Leyonhjelm. Justice White said Mr Leyonhjelm's defences of justification and qualified privilege had failed and that his failure to check the accuracy of comments he mistakenly heard meant his conduct was not reasonable.

Sarah Hanson-Young wins defamation case against former senator

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has been awarded $120,000 in her defamation battle with former MP David Leyonhjelm in the Federal Court.

Nov 25, 2019
Michael Pelly

April 2019

Federal election

Shorten a 'two-faced liar' over preferences, Clive Palmer says

Clive Palmer claims that Labor tried to gain his preferences but is now attacking him.

Apr 29, 2019
Andrew Tillett

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