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Tony Mokbel walks free from court on Friday after almost 18 years behind bars.

Tony Mokbel walking free caps another bad week for Jacinta Allan

Wearing a big smile and an ankle bracelet, one of Australia’s most notorious gangland figures was granted bail after 18 years in prison.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

PM makes first Victorian campaign stop, but Allan is nowhere to be seen

There are four Labor premiers in Australia. Albanese is happy to stand alongside three of them.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and Acting Police Commissioner Rick Nugent

‘Wheels are falling off’ in Victoria amid police crisis: Dutton

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has sought to link the growing unpopularity of the Victorian Labor government to Anthony Albanese’s federal campaign in the state.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton and infrastructure spokeswoman Bridget McKenzie have vowed to withdraw federal funding from the SRL.

‘Not going to happen’: Dutton accuses Allan of SRL obsession

The opposition leader promised to stop funding Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop, making it a defining issue in the federal election in Victoria.

March

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton campaigning in Tomago on Monday.

Dutton to scrap SRL funding, pledges $1.5b to Melbourne airport link

The funds being announced by Peter Dutton on Tuesday will be matched by the state opposition leader Brad Battin, lifting airport rail funding to $13 billion.

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The FWO is seeking communications between CFMEU official Joel Shackleton and Monash Freeway Upgrade contractor CPB.

Judge slams CFMEU administrator for resisting coercion probe

A CFMEU official allegedly threatened one owner on the Monash Freeway project that he would take his soul and rip his head off.

The Suburban Rail Loop building site at Box Hill in Melbourne.

PM won’t rule out more Suburban Rail Loop funding despite warnings

Anthony Albanese says he believes it’s a viable project – “When you have an infrastructure project, quite often in the early stages, there’s some criticism of it.”

Inside the rollercoaster week in Victorian politics

Crime, the CFMEU, cost blowout fears on the Suburban Rail Loop and a new stoush with the top cop. These stories show why Premier Jacinta Allan may think a week is a long time in Victorian politics.

Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop is part of the state’s huge infrastructure program.

Allan told she needs an exit strategy for SRL

Infrastructure Australia has cast doubt on the Victorian government’s ability to fund a third of SRL East through value capture and warns of more cost blowouts.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan.

More prison officers needed to manage stricter bail laws: Allan

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has passed tougher bail laws, saying the state needs a “jolt to the system” amid an escalating crime problem.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan.

The real story behind Jacinta Allan’s horror week

If Labor goes badly in Victoria in the federal election, the state’s scandal-prone premier will be blamed. Then it will be game on, insiders say.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has announced that a Coalition government would introduce legislation, based on US-style racketeering laws,

CFMEU is still Building Bad nine months later

New reports of criminal activity underline how inadequate the measures taken have been to stamp out illegal CFMEU-linked behaviour.

Premier Jacinta Allan with Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny and Police Minister Anthony Carbines.

Allan denies she colluded to oust Victoria’s top cops

Victoria’s former deputy police chief lodged a complaint with the state anti-corruption body that the premier plotted to remove him and his boss last month.

Victoria’s energy challenge explained (in 7 charts)

The state has been powered by vast reserves of cheap oil, gas and brown coal. But it faces blackouts in coming years – here’s how that happened.

AirBnB operators in Victoria could be exposed to land tax under state government changes.

Victoria starts handing out hefty bills in land tax ‘grab’

More than 400,000 people who run a small business or Airbnb from their home have been hit with hefty land tax bills under the government’s plans to rein in debt.

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Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan and acting Police Commissioner Rick Nugent.

Victoria police reject Allan’s claim about CFMEU crackdown advice

Jacinta Allan said it was the acting police commissioner’s fault that she said a nine-month-old operation against thuggery in the construction industry was new.

Sodden fans watch on at the F1.

All the bankers at Melbourne’s sodden grand prix

From Luke Sayers to Mike Cannon-Brookes to Matt Comyn, Australia’s biggest business names braved the Melbourne weather on Sunday.

February

The proposed tower at 153-157 Walker St, North Sydney, which could provide 520 homes.

Office tower to apartment block: Inside the new push to fix housing

Planning reforms in Australia’s two biggest states have sparked political backlash, but will buyers and developers fill in the missing middle?

The owners say they can’t knock down the dilapidated building at 1 Rathdowne Street without a demolition permit.

Melbourne’s ‘biggest eyesore’ could be targeted in housing blitz

Victorian Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny says a disused former Cancer Council building in the heart of Melbourne could be cleared for development into new homes.

Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny and Premier Jacinta Allan have warned councils they will seize planning powers if they fail to create more housing supply.

Victoria must give up ‘ideological attachment’ to apartments: Metricon

Victoria will continue to miss housing targets until it realises Millennials and migrants want detached homes, not inner-city apartments, Metricon chief executive Brad Duggan says.

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