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Premier Jacinta Allan hopes to extend the state’s lobbying rules to local governments as soon as this year.

Integrity rules could include local government for the first time

Lobbying at the local government level is not regulated in Victoria, despite councillors often making decisions on multimillion-dollar projects. 

  • Broede Carmody and Rachael Dexter

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Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas.

Hospital carve-up completed, new health networks unveiled

The Allan government is creating 12 new networks – each designed to service at least 200,000 people – after consulting hospitals, doctors and councils opposed to the original plan.

  • Henrietta Cook and Sumeyya Ilanbey
 Acting Minister for Mental Health Mary-Anne Thomas, seeing sample drug testing with Jacob Fry senior chemist and Sarah Hiley drug checking director at the Beyond the Valley Festival.

What’s in that white powder? Inside Victoria’s first pill testing site

From this weekend, festival-goers will be able to get their drugs tested confidentially to make sure they are taking what they think they are taking.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola
The increase in the congestion levy is designed to reduce the amount of traffic in inner Melbourne.

Parking to get more expensive as congestion levy rises 79 per cent

A hike in the levy to deter motorists from Melbourne’s CBD and inner suburbs has been lashed by a peak lobby group as ineffective.

  • Carla Jaeger and Kieran Rooney
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan (right) speaks to the media after Jaclyn Symes was sworn in as the state’s new treasurer.

Allan shuffles the deck in hopes of a better hand in 2026

The premier has used her first major cabinet reshuffle to elevate housing as a policy priority before the next state election and cement the key role of women in her frontbench.

  • Rachel Eddie and Kieran Rooney
Jaclyn Symes will be moved to the key portfolio of Treasury.

Jaclyn Symes to be Victoria’s first female treasurer

State Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes is to be sworn in as treasurer on Thursday as she takes on one of the most difficult challenges in politics.

  • Chip Le Grand, Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
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A Hezbollah flag displayed at a rally in Melbourne.

‘Knee-jerk lawmaking’: Terror flags and masks to be banned at protests, sparking backlash

The Allan government is on a collision course with civil libertarians and pro-Palestinian groups over a plan to criminalise behaviour at peaceful protests.

  • Carla Jaeger
Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Tim Pallas on Monday.

With state byelections looming, there is no clear successor to Pallas

Some frontbenchers are emerging as possible replacements for the retiring treasurer.

  • Rachel Eddie and Kieran Rooney
Premier Jacinta Allan with Tim Pallas on Monday.

Pallas’ departure leaves Allan with mounting headaches

Treasurer Tim Pallas’ resignation means Premier Jacinta Allan must find a new economic manager to tackle the biggest debt pile in Victoria’s history.

  • Kieran Rooney, Chip Le Grand and Carla Jaeger
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas announce his retirement at Treasury Place in Melbourne, Monday, December 16, 2024.

‘A bit of tension’: Treasurer quits parliament after 18 years as state bogged down in debt

Tim Pallas has stepped down after delivering his 10th budget, which left Victoria with a forecast net debt of $187.8 billion and gave Labor a hit in the polls.

  • Kieran Rooney, Annika Smethurst and Carla Jaeger

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