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Break or breakthrough: the red flags at Victoria’s VC fund

At the stroke of a pen, Victoria created one of Australia’s largest VC funds, chaired by a former premier overseeing a staggeringly wide investment remit. What could go wrong?

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If you want to know what went wrong at Breakthrough Victoria, you could do worse than looking at the circumstances of its very foundation.

In September 2020, during the second of what would be six pandemic lockdowns, the Herald Sun asked four former Victorian premiers how they would fix the state.

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Myriam Robin is Rear Window editor based in the Melbourne newsroom. A Rear Window columnist since 2017, she previously reported on financial markets and media. Connect with Myriam on Twitter. Email Myriam at myriam.robin@afr.com

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