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Election 2025: Victorian hot seats

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

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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.

  • Sophie Aubrey, Adam Carey, Rachael Dexter, Cara Waters, Lachlan Abbott, Benjamin Preiss, Clay Lucas and Tom Cowie
Speaking for the trees: Samantha Ratnam (left), Bob Brown and Sonya Semmens.

Back to basics – and familiar faces – as Greens eye balance of power

The minor party will issue a list of key demands of minority government ahead of the federal election. This is one of them.

  • Bianca Hall
The state government has a target of building 80,000 new homes every year.

Labor cops flak from both flanks over suburban high-rises

Premier Jacinta Allan says she wants to be a “builder” as her bold move to reshape Melbourne’s housing landscape sparks a swift backlash from political rivals on all sides.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Daniel Coleman, a founder for the Jewish Greens Working Group, has cancelled his party membership.

‘Wreaking some destruction’: The schism in the Greens driving out Jewish members

Activists rising to power in the Greens are intent on reshaping the party into a hard left force, with overt sympathies for the pro-Palestinian protest movement.

  • Chip Le Grand
Ellen Sandell was on Tuesday elected as the new leader of the Victorian Greens.

Ellen Sandell the stability choice for ambitious Victorian Greens MPs

Melbourne MP Ellen Sandell is the new leader of the state Greens after Samantha Ratnam stepped down to contest the federal seat of Wills.

  • Broede Carmody and Annika Smethurst
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Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam.

How Liberal mistakes are driving the Greens and Nationals’ succession plans

A rare reprieve from leadership chatter among Labor and the Liberals has turned the spotlight to other players among the Victorian Parliament.

  • Annika Smethurst
Crossbench MP David Limbrick

This MP never met with Daniel Andrews. He’s already had two meetings with Jacinta Allan

Labor’s control of the crossbench is changing as progressives warn they won’t be taken for granted and those frozen out under Andrews welcome a new approach.

  • Royce Millar and Kieran Rooney
Peter Khalil and Samantha Ratnam.

Battle of Wills: Greens’ pro-Palestinian plan to grab prize Labor seat

Will Muslim voters in the working-class north of this Labor stronghold unite with middle-class progressives in the south to vote for Greens because of Gaza?

  • Paul Sakkal and Broede Carmody
Victoria’s ageing social housing towers are in poor condition and at the centre of a political brawl.

‘Timing couldn’t be worse’: Labor MPs irate over failure to block housing probe

Members of the Allan government are fuming after a minister failed to head off a damaging parliamentary inquiry into the demolition of 44 social housing towers.

  • Kieran Rooney

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