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Election 2025: Victorian hot seats
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Election 2025: Victorian hot seats

In this series of weekly live blogs, we take an in-depth look at the election campaign and the issues that matter to voters in the key Victorian electorates of Goldstein, Wills, Kooyong and Bruce.

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Greens launch music policy.

Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Air guitar-playing Greens promise tax breaks for live-music venues

What better place to launch a live-music policy than a pub beer garden?

  • by Cara Waters, Rachael Dexter, Tom Cowie, Charlotte Grieve, Brittany Busch and Tony Wright
Liberal Zahid Safi, a street scene in Noble Park and Labor incumbent Julian Hill.

Victoria’s hot seats week one as it happened: Bruce is anything but a typical Liberal-Labor contest

Join us over the next five weeks for an in-depth look at the candidates, hot-button issues, and a breakdown of the policies and campaign promises in four key electorates.

  • by Clay Lucas, Cara Waters, Rachael Dexter and Charlotte Grieve
Amelia Hamer, the 31-year-old Oxford-educated grandniece of former Victorian premier Sir Rupert “Dick” Hamer.
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Amelia Hamer pitched herself as a renter. She owns two investment properties

The Oxford-educated grandniece of former Victorian premier Rupert Hamer describes herself as a renter and someone who empathises with tenants’ struggles.

  • by Rachael Dexter
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These candidates are fighting it out in Victoria’s key seats.

Battleground Victoria: Why these candidates may hold the key to the federal election result

The major parties are facing a fight for heartland seats, while challengers are ready to reverse the teal tsunami of the previous election. This is where the fiercest battles will be fought.

  • by Sophie Aubrey, Adam Carey, Rachael Dexter, Cara Waters, Lachlan Abbott, Benjamin Preiss, Clay Lucas and Tom Cowie

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/federal/election-2025-victorian-hot-seats-20250406-p5lpke.html