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Opposition Leader Brad Battin announces his shadow cabinet on Tuesday.

Battin unveils new frontbench, with Deeming allies rewarded

Opposition Leader Brad Battin has defended John Pesutto’s shift to the backbench, insisting it was the former leader’s decision.

  • Broede Carmody

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New Victorian Liberal leader Brad Battin.

Battin expected to bridge factional divide in new-look frontbench

The newly minted opposition leader is likely to unveil a reshuffled shadow cabinet on Tuesday.

  • Broede Carmody
Newly elected Opposition Leader Brad Battin

Brad Battin, having rolled Pesutto, promises unity and makes election pitch

The 49-year-old former police officer, flanked by his new all-male leadership team, has vowed to bring the party together and said he would toughen bail laws and slash taxes.

  • Carla Jaeger and Broede Carmody
Jess Wilson and Brad Battin

A fleeting moment of calm before an unreturned phone call reignited Liberal loathing

Brad Battin and Jess Wilson could have led a next-generation Liberal Party, but neither wanted to play second fiddle, leaving the party riven by the same hatreds that consumed John Pesutto.

  • Chip Le Grand
Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto.

‘Gutless’: War of words breaks out over remote voting in Liberal showdown

John Pesutto’s decision to allow remote voting in Friday’s leadership spill has put him – and his opponents – in the line of fire.

  • Carla Jaeger, Broede Carmody and Kieran Rooney
Opposition Leader John Pesutto.

Pesutto is Libs’ most popular recent leader. It’s not likely that will save him

It now appears inevitable that John Pesutto will lose his position. Liberals are already speaking of his time in office in the past tense.

  • Broede Carmody, Rachel Eddie and Kieran Rooney
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John Pesutto speaking after last week’s party room meeting to vote on the readmission of Moira Deeming to the Liberal Party.

John Pesutto to face leadership spill on Friday

The party room meeting to decide Pesutto’s fate comes after his last-ditch effort on Sunday to save his job by agreeing to readmit exiled MP and defamation foe Moira Deeming.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Opposition Leader John Pesutto, leader in the upper house Georgie Crozier and deputy leader David Southwick.

Pesutto says he’s staying as rebels squabble over a replacement

Many in the Victorian Liberal Party want John Pesutto to go. If only they could decide who they want to replace him.

  • Kieran Rooney, Chip Le Grand and Rachel Eddie
Pesutto said that after two years, Victorians know him “as a fighter for them”.

Under-pressure Liberal leader John Pesutto vows to stay on

The opposition leader says Victorians know him “as a fighter” and that he would be willing to apologise to Moira Deeming in person.

  • Kieran Rooney
John Pesutto on Friday.

Pesutto’s leadership hanging by a thread after deadlocked Deeming vote

John Pesutto has been given 24 hours to stand down or face a leadership challenge after the narrow vote on allowing Moira Deeming back into the party room cost him support from key backers.

  • Rachel Eddie, Kieran Rooney and Chip Le Grand

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