This Month
Victoria’s byelections pave Dutton’s path to The Lodge
Former Victorian leader Jeff Kennett says if Labor loses the safe seat of Werribee in Melbourne’s west, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s leadership is at risk.
- Patrick Durkin
November 2024
- Opinion
- Victorian budget
Tim Pallas would need to win Oz Lotto for 86 years to pay off Vic debt
Victoria’s treasurer has clearly been overwhelmed by premiers Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan, and these Labor years look set to become bywords for state government dysfunction and failure.
- Alan Stockdale
- Opinion
- Victorian budget
Victoria needs a Milei or Musk to clean up Labor’s economic mess
The question Victorians must face is whether they would tolerate an Argentinian-type solution to the problems facing Australia’s domestic version of Argentina.
- Morgan Begg
October 2024
Butchers’ super fund to have biggest stake in fruit group SPC
The return of the fruit and vegetable processor SPC to the ASX comes with a Rich Lister and the meat workers super fund at the top of its share register.
- Simon Evans
SPC heads back to the ASX for the first time in two decades
The century-old agribusiness group which began life as a farmer co-operative is merging with listed Original Juice Co and expanding into dairy products.
- Simon Evans
September 2024
Canned fruit giant SPC Global in merger talks to juice up earnings
The cost savings from the merger could make the combined group significantly more competitive, sources say.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
June 2024
‘An insult’: Andrews reignites fight over plaudits for politicians
There are calls for former Victorian leader Daniel Andrews to be stripped of the nation’s top honour.
- Andrew Tillett and Gus McCubbing
May 2024
Pallas vows to prove rating agencies wrong
Treasurer Tim Pallas has fended off warnings Victoria could face a third credit rating downgrade since 2020.
- Gus McCubbing and Patrick Durkin
March 2024
Break or breakthrough: the red flags at Victoria’s VC fund
Breakthrough Victoria was formed after its now-chairman, John Brumby, called for the establishment of such a fund.
- Myriam Robin
‘We’ve gone soft’: Labor old guard backs Keating
Chairman Tony Shepherd has backed Paul Keating’s sentiment that “we have gone soft” but billionaire Gerry Harvey says Keating is living in the past.
- Patrick Durkin
February 2024
Why Kennett thinks Dunkley can change politics
Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett rates the Liberals a 50-50 chance of upsetting Labor in Saturday’s byelection in Dunkley and predicts the result will have massive reverberations for both sides of politics.
- Patrick Durkin
Ad man Harold Mitchell was living large to the end
Harold Mitchell helped reinvent how advertising is bought and sold in Australia. Giants of Australian industry shared their thoughts after his surprise passing.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
January 2024
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
The cost-of-living crisis is real – so is supermarket competition
The Emerson review must not make findings for the political sake of having been seen to have done something.
- Jeff Kennett
Rate cut hopes dashed; Red Sea woe spreads; Forrest’s Trump verdict
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Coles names new arbiter as Jeff Kennett resigns from post
As renewed scrutiny comes to the grocery sector, Coles has appointed experienced lawyer Jenny Linsten to the role dealing with supplier disputes.
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Exclusive
- Liberal Party
Kennett backs Millennial renewal for Liberals in Kooyong, Goldstein
Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett says the Liberal Party needs renewal, backing two young women in key seats ahead of the next federal election.
- Ronald Mizen
November 2023
Only just over half of Melbourne has returned to the office
The return to office of workers in the Victorian capital remains slower than other CBDs, new occupancy figures show.
- Campbell Kwan and Patrick Durkin
October 2023
- Exclusive
- Working from home
Bosses plan to pay staff less for working at home: survey
One in three employers think working from home is a privilege and are planning to pay remote workers differently than their office colleagues.
- David Marin-Guzman
September 2023
- Updated
- Political leadership
Business cheers as divisive Andrews bows out early
The outgoing Victorian premier’s shock resignation blindsides rival factions allowing his handpicked deputy, Jacinta Allan, to take the reins.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing and Patrick Durkin
May 2023
Liberal Party heavyweights gather to farewell Tony Staley
Tony Staley was a kingmaker in conservative Australian politics and a cabinet worth of Liberal Party heavyweights joined his friends and family for his funeral.
- Gus McCubbing