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Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan.

Jacinta Allan’s sinking popularity inflicts brand damage on Albanese’s election hopes

An exclusive survey shows support for the Victorian Labor Party has collapsed to crisis levels – and it will have a huge influence on the federal political contest.

  • Chip Le Grand and Paul Sakkal

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a press conference after visiting Government House to call for an election.

We’re prepared for election of small targets, which is deeply disappointing

Australians deserve better than the kind of visionless politics being dished up by the major parties.

  • The Age's View
Opposition Leader Brad Battin is pictured earlier this month.

Battin wants Pesutto to keep seat amid bankruptcy threat from Deeming’s costs

Liberal elders are running out of options on how to spare former party leader John Pesutto from bankruptcy, which would force his exit from parliament and a byelection.

  • Rachel Eddie
Moira Deeming and John Pesutto.

Deeming’s costs could bankrupt Pesutto. This donor doesn’t care

Bankruptcy disqualifies anybody from being a member of parliament. Under this scenario, a live possibility, Pesutto would be forced out and a byelection called for his marginal seat of Hawthorn.

  • Rachel Eddie
Victorian Opposition Leader Brad Battin.

‘Cancel it’: Brad Battin ups the ante on Suburban Rail Loop

The opposition leader has strengthened the Coalition’s stance against the SRL following a report critical of how the state government can pay for it.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Northern Metropolitan MP Evan Mulholland is a man on a mission.

Outbreak of unity among Libs as party finds common ground at Liberty Forum

Rusted-on moderate Evan Mulholland will make speak at an event that puts saving the suburbs at the top of its agenda.

  • Broede Carmody and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Self-described ‘amateur Sherlock Holmes’ Colin Robertson, presented his theory at a press conference called by now Opposition Leader Brad Battin in 2023.

Cyclist at centre of ‘Bike Boy’ campaign has no control over funds raised for his fight

As the state Liberal leader broke his silence on the Bike Boy campaign, more details have emerged about how funds – and potential court winnings – for the cyclist are being held.

  • Sherryn Groch
An aerial view of Frankston, where apartments up to 16-storeys tall have been approved.

Housing targets scaled back across Melbourne

The state government also says it is cutting back plans for medium-density development because of response from the community.

  • Rachael Dexter
Brad Battin says he will support the government’s legislation, with one key change.

The four words blocking the government’s hate speech laws

Victorian Opposition Leader Brad Battin has offered Premier Jacinta Allan bipartisan support for proposed hate laws currently before parliament if she agrees to remove four words from the legislation.

  • Chip Le Grand
Federal Greens leader Adam Bandt and Greens candidate Angelica Di Camillo hand out how-to-vote cards in South Yarra on Saturday morning.

Learning nothing from their humiliation in Prahran, Greens will march on

If the Greens were a party with serious aspirations to govern, they would be mortified by the message from the Prahran byelection.

  • Chip Le Grand

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