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The Hallam Road landfill in Hampton Park.

Victoria wants to burn more waste for energy – in someone else’s electorate

While the government has sought another lift to the cap on how much rubbish can be burned each year, proposed waste-to-energy projects are meeting community backlash and regulatory barriers.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie

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Daniel Andrews - still involved in housing policy?

Allan’s private meeting with Andrews ahead of crunch policy move

The pair got the old band back together for a meeting at the start of October to discuss “more housing for Victorians”.

  • Liam Mannix, Kishor Napier-Raman and Kieran Rooney
Noah Balta at Richmond training earlier this year.

Jacinta Allan joins calls for Noah Balta to sit out of football until his sentencing

Balta won’t return to the Richmond senior side this weekend, and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan wants him to sit out until he is sentenced for his attack on a man in NSW.

  • Roy Ward and Rachel Eddie
Pratima Karki can be left stranded for more than 30 minutes at Craigieburn station because of its infrequent off-peak services.

Train timetables are stuck in ‘the 1990s’ for Melbourne’s north and west

New analysis shows Melbourne’s north and west have far fewer hours of frequent train services each week compared the city’s south-east, or similar rail lines in Sydney and Perth.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Maribyrnong Truck Action Group president Martin Wurt says the failure of the trade-in scheme felt like a broken promise.

Truck trade-in scheme fails to spend a cent, receives just two failed applications

A $15 million truck trade-in scheme that promised to reduce pollution in Melbourne’s inner-west has not paid a single grant 18 months after it first opened.

  • Kieran Rooney
Computer-generated holograms of Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog at the ABBA Voyage concert in London.

‘Mad for it’: Can superfan Jacinta Allan bring ABBA Voyage to Melbourne?

The push to re-create the multimillion-dollar holographic concert in Melbourne is still on.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Premier Jacinta Allan at the North East Link construction site in May last year.

The leader most likely to lose their job after the federal election? Jacinta Allan

There will be no move against Allan while the campaign is on but if Labor does as badly in Victoria as the polls suggest, senior party figures have made it clear whom they will blame.

  • Chip Le Grand
Jacinta Allan and Anthony Albanese.

Allan seeks to charm caucus as concerns mount over state Labor poll slump

Federal Labor MPs are struggling with how they should campaign in a state vital to Labor’s electoral fortunes when the state branch is so on the nose.

  • Kieran Rooney, Rachel Eddie and Olivia Ireland
Acting Police Chief Commissioner Rick Nugent will not seek the permanent job.

‘My time is precious to me’: Victoria Police acting chief commissioner won’t apply for top job

It means Victoria will have had at least three different chief police commissioners in 2025, with applications for the permanent role closing this Friday.

  • Alexander Darling, Rachel Eddie, Kieran Rooney and Melissa Cunningham
Premier Jacinta Allan and then Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes announced the new laws in November.

Hate speech laws pass parliament as Liberals claim freedom of speech is at risk

The long-awaited reforms will make serious vilification – such as incitement of hatred or physical threats – punishable by up to five years’ jail.

  • Daniella White

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