Today
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 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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
Jobless rate rises; Labor’s $2.4b Whyalla rescue; Rio Tinto’s miracle
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.