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

Airbnbs and other home businesses in new Victoria 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.

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.

Yesterday

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.

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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.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a $2.4 billion support package for the Whyalla steel mill.

Why Albanese is going for broke at Whyalla

The prime minister is intent on saving jobs and the South Australian steel industry with a joint government bailout of $2.4 billion. But his hopes of a green steel future are much more tenuous.

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Jobless rate rises; Labor’s $2.4b Whyalla rescue; Rio Tinto’s miracle

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Victorian Treasurer Jaclyn Symes (left) and Premier Jacinta Allan.

Business backs Victoria plan to slash 3000 public service jobs

Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Jaclyn Symes say “several billions of dollars” in savings will be found after announcing a review into the public sector.

Infrastructure projects in Victoria has blown out by another $11.7 billion in the past year.

Vic Labor acting like it’s ‘above reproach’ after $12b blowout

Victoria’s former integrity watchdog has slammed Labor’s attack on the state auditor-general after it detailed nearly $12 billion in major project cost blowouts over the past year.

Premier Jacinta Allan and Police Minister Anthony Carbines.

Allan denies making police chief the scapegoat for rising crime

The Victoria premier says her government had no choice but to move on Chief Commissioner Shane Patton after 87 per cent of union members voted against him.

Premier Jacinta Allan is locked in a stand-off with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over infrastructure funding.

Allan told to get SRL money into Melbourne’s west, or else

The controversial $100 billion Suburban Rail Loop was thrust back into the spotlight after Labor’s primary vote collapsed in the Werribee byelection.

Infrastructure Minister Catherine King and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Victoria’s value capture claims a hurdle to further SRL money: King

Infrastructure Minister Catherine King said she had approved the release of federal Labor’s $2.2 billion pledge for the first phase of the rail loop, known as SRL East.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is under pressure after Labor’s primary vote collapsed in the Werribee byelection over the weekend.

Allan government on SRL collision course with federal Labor

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has vowed to plough on with construction of the controversial $100 billion rail project despite reports of unease in Labor’s ranks about its future.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a ministerial statement on the Closing the Gap report.

PM schedules Trump call amid steel and aluminium tariffs

Anthony Albanese says he will aim to get an exemption for Australia on US tariffs; Super Bowl advertisers play it safe with nostalgia. How the day unfolded.

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Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Tim Pallas announce his retirement on Monday.

Liberal Party is yet to heed the message sent in Werribee

State and federal oppositions will draw encouragement from the byelection result. But neither has shown voters a coherent and credible budget and economic strategy.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan at the Labor function for the Werribee byelection on Saturday night.

Byelection result could force Labor to splash cash in Melbourne’s west

Voters have lashed Premier Jacinta Allan’s government in Werribee and look to have dumped the Greens in the inner-city seat of Prahran.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan at the Labor function for the Werribee byelection on Saturday night.

Allan concedes safe Labor seat ‘on a knife edge’

Labor was ahead – just – in the Victorian state seat of Werribee which it has held since 1979 with half of votes counted in an important byelection.

Labor candidate for Werribee John Lister, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and deputy Labor leader Ben Carroll at a press conference at Werribee Outdoor Pool.

Allan orders full-court press to stave off historic byelection loss

Jacinta Allan has gone chips in on the Werribee byelection, with defeat potentially spelling the end of the state Labor government, according to pollsters.

In parliament this week, the prime minister complained that Peter Dutton was asking him questions about visas for Palestinians rather than about the cost of living.

Victoria turns into ground zero for Labor

Why a state byelection has Anthony Albanese biting his fingernails. The west Melbourne seat is being treated by both sides as a litmus test for the change in the national mood.

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