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James CampbellNational weekend political editor

James Campbell is national weekend political editor for Saturday and Sunday News Corporation newspapers and websites across Australia, including the Saturday and Sunday Herald Sun, the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph and the Saturday Courier Mail and Sunday Mail. He has previously been investigations editor, state politics editor and opinion editor of the Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun. Since starting on the Sunday Herald Sun in 2008 Campbell has twice been awarded the Grant Hattam Quill Award for investigative journalism by the Melbourne Press Club and in 2013 won the Walkley Award for Scoop of the Year.

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Local Government Minister Adem Somyurek speaks to reporters on the steps of the State Parliament of Victoria in Melbourne, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. Victoria's parliament will sack South Gippsland Shire Council amid ongoing "governance failure" including high tension between nine councillors. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

Outplayed in power move: Inside Adem Somyurek’s fall

Explosive allegations levelled against Adem Somyurek have exposed the cracks in the state branch of the ALP, but the worst of the fallout is to come as details of the sting come to light.

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews speaks to media ahead of a sitting of the Parliament of Victoria at Parliament House in Melbourne, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

Rotten to the core: ALP’s toxic internal war exposed

A fierce war is tipped to erupt in the Labor Party over the explosive corruption revelations that saw a Minister sacked, a second quit and has the Premier under siege.

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Former Victorian Small Business Minister Adem Somyurek leaves a media conference at Victorian parliament in Melbourne, Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Somyurek has resigned from the ministry following bullying allegations made by his former chief of staff. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

Somyurek’s rise from cabbie to Labor powerbroker

Adem Somyurek’s rise from taxi driver to Minister of the Crown should have been the stuff of Labor legend. Instead, it’s now transpired into a political car crash. Here’s the full story.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 15: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews arrives to speak to the media on June 15, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Victorian Labor MP Adem Somyurek resigned this morning amid corruption and branch stacking allegations following an investigation by The Age newspaper and 60 minutes which aired on Sunday night. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Premier reveals new-look ministry after Somyurek sacking

Daniel Andrews has announced a reshuffle of the Victorian Cabinet after the sacking of MP Adem Somyurek left major holes in Labor’s ministry.

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Preston state Labor MP Robin Scott is pictured at the Bell Station crossing on Thursday 30th March, 2017. Picture: Mark Dadswell

Second Labor minister quits as Somyurek fallout continues

A close factional ally of disgraced Victorian Labor MP Adem Somyurek has left the cabinet as the fallout from explosive allegations of branch stacking continues.

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Follow up tax payers fund story. Adem Somyurek. Picture: Tim Carrafa

Somyurek comes crashing down over tape scandal

Derogatory comments made by Labor Party strongman Adem Somyurek have cost him his ministerial position, but the bigger question weighing on everyone’s shoulders is who secretly recorded him?

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Dan’s man opened the door to China

Daniel Andrews was introduced to Chinese Communist Party officials by a veteran Labor Party figure who later became involved in a Belt and Road lobby group, leaked emails have revealed.

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Passengers wear surgical masks to stay safe against Covid-19 on trains and at stations in Melbourne. Flinders Street station pictured. Picture: Jason Edwards

Shock coronavirus toll on public transport

The full scale of the impact of COVID-19 on Melbourne’s public transport network has been exposed, with passenger numbers plummeting. The state government reveals how it will keep operators from “handing back the keys” and what passenger limits could mean for commuters.

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Work on the West Gate Tunnel set to grind to a halt as argby bargy with Transurban goes on. Have been told there's a good vantage spot for the site at the KFC on Williamstown Rd and on New St on South Kingsville. With a long lens you should be able to get some workers and steel structures being built from the KFC. Anything with white tarps is PFAS. Picture: Jason Edwards

Premier warns West Gate Tunnel builders their tactics ‘won’t work’

Premier Daniel Andrews has put builders of the West Gate Tunnel on notice that they will miss out on future government contracts if they push ahead with bruising tactics in their battle with Transurban.

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Elder St green bridge connecting both sides of Greensborough Rd and the Watsonia Station carpark. North East Link.

Unions demand 40 per cent pay rise for North East Link

In an extraordinary cash grab, unions have demanded that construction companies bidding to build the $16 billion North East Link offer 40 per cent pay rises across the life of the project.

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