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John Brumby

August

Start-up founder sues Victoria’s VC fund

The Victorian government’s troubled venture capital fund Breakthrough Victoria faces a multi-million dollar legal battle.

  • Patrick Durkin
John Brumby.

Brumby urged to follow Breakthrough Victoria CEO out the door

The chief executive of the Victorian government’s Breakthrough Victoria fund, Grant Dooley, has resigned and backed an overhaul of the John Brumby-led board.

  • Patrick Durkin

May

George Peppou of Vow

R&D boost needed for Future Made in Australia plan to fly

Australian firms that develop innovative technologies say they are disincentivised to build their products in Australia and are calling for R&D incentive changes.

  • Tess Bennett

March

Daniel Andrews, right, was health minister in 2010 under premier John Brumby.

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
Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas has rejected calls to wind up the state’s $2 billion venture capital fund.

No plans to wind up embattled $2b VC fund: Pallas

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas has hit back at calls to wind up the state’s venture capital fund, saying there isn’t enough private money to support start-ups.

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  • Gus McCubbing
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Breakthrough Victoria chairman and former Victorian premier John Brumby.

Victorian government venture capital fund referred to auditor-general

The Allan government is standing by Breakthrough Victoria’s chairman John Brumby as the opposition claims the fund needs to be investigated.

  • Patrick Durkin and Gus McCubbing
Former Victorian premier John Brumby chairs the $2 billion Breakthrough Victoria Fund.

‘Mass redundancies’: Vic government’s losing VC bet

A medical start-up heavily backed by the Victorian government’s troubled venture capital fund has run into trouble.

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  • Tom Richardson and Patrick Durkin
Former Victorian premier John Brumby chairs the $2 billion Breakthrough Victoria fund.

Board exodus: Vic government start-up fund spent $22m to invest $74m

Three directors of the state government-funded $2 billion Breakthrough Victoria venture fund are quitting amid calls for the fund to be wound up.

  • Patrick Durkin

February

Former Victorian premier John Brumby chairs Citywide.

John Brumby-chaired Citywide mulls options for waste arm

Gather, garbos! Melbourne council is weighing putting a sizeable waste management business on the auction block.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

September 2023

Andrews leaves Victorian Labor firmly in power, but tarnished

His legacy as premier includes huge investments in infrastructure, the largest debt burden of any state and a record of division.

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  • Ben Potter

August 2023

Former Victorian Premier John Brumby chairs the country’s biggest tech and science investment fund.

How a former premier runs biggest – but least known – VC fund

Blackbird, AirTree and Square Peg are the big name local VCs, but none of them run a fund that is half the size of the mammoth $2 billion Breakthrough Victoria.

  • Adir Shiffman

February 2023

Quantum Brilliance’s diamond-based quantum computers are compact and operate at room temperature.

Start-up that makes room-temp quantum computers banks $26m

The Victorian government and the CSIRO’s venture fund Main Sequence have put fresh capital behind Quantum Brilliance.

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  • Tess Bennett

November 2022

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and his family at Labor’s campaign launch.

Lobsters, Mount Everest and frequent liars kick off election games

Daniel Andrews was smiling and shaking hands to ’90s duo Moloko and their hit single Sing it Back [bring it back] as he launched a shot at the history books.

  • Patrick Durkin

October 2021

Former Victorian premiers Steve Bracks, John Brumby, Jeff Kennett and Ted Baillieu say "kick a Vic" sentiment must stop.

How Bracks, Brumby, Baillieu and Kennett would fix Victoria

The two Labor and two Liberal leaders agreed rebuilding public confidence and a global strategy were key to restoring the state’s fortunes.

  • Patrick Durkin

May 2021

Tanarra Capital founder John Wylie is stepping down from his role as president of State Library Victoria after nine years.

John Wylie farewelled at State Library Victoria

Melbourne’s most cultured and most wealthy citizens turned out in force to farewell the outgoing chairman.

  • Myriam Robin
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March 2021

John Brumby says the new research fund is bigger than anything attempted at state level before.

John Brumby to lead $2b research fund in Victoria

The former premier says the fund will drive investment in businesses and jobs creation across five key sectors, focused on the state’s university precincts.

  • Patrick Durkin

March 2020

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Huawei beats an inevitable retreat

The Chinese telco giant's experiment of setting up a local board populated with heavy hitters to push its case in Canberra and win over the public ultimately failed, writes Jennifer Hewett.

  • Jennifer Hewett

January 2020

Jeff Kennett warns on bushfire donation chaos

Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has warned that the $500 million in bushfire donations risks becoming a shambles unless governments step in to scrutinise the charity spending.

  • Patrick Durkin
Nicola and Andrew Forrest have made a $70 million donation for bushfire relief.

Donation warnings as fundraising efforts top $200m

The bushfire crisis has generated more than $200 million in donations as the public, business and philanthropists rush to give. But does that create new problems?

  • Julie-anne Sprague

April 2019

The paper says the current seating arrangements in both houses, in which the parties face off against each other, "promotes a hostile" approach.

Bipartisan support for plan to save democracy

Australia’s democracy is frayed and public confidence in our system of governance is in worrying decline, a new report says.

  • Phillip Coorey

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