A review into the Liberal party’s 2018 state election defeat has blasted the “sheer stupidity” of figures involved in a dinner between then Opposition leader Matthew Guy and Tony Madafferi, saying it did “enormous damage” to the party’s election chances.
Casey councillor Sam Aziz, who is embroiled in an anti-corruption investigation, has spoken out from Cairo, slamming all accusations he accepted cash from property developers in return for backing their projects.
A messy fight is looming over who will pay the huge extra costs of the Metro Tunnel, with the Andrew Government reportedly warned the total blowout of the project could come close to $3 billion.
An exclusive investigation into the practice of Australian lawyers has discovered that an estimated 25,000 parties in family law cases have been left unrepresented in court due to the hefty cost of hiring a lawyer.
Daniel Andrews’s native timber logging ban has sparked a Labor war, with the CFMMEU declaring it is an “embarrassing, motley, half-baked, rag-tagged, mishmash of talking points”.
Police will be called in to probe a catering firm’s allegations that evidence was cooked up in order to shut it down earlier this year.
Political giants Steve Bracks and Jeff Kennett have had their say on the issues they believe are “holding the country back” and need to be addressed. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST NOW.
Former Victorian premier Steve Bracks had a change of heart on industrial manslaughter laws, the Herald Sun can reveal, as the former leader faces off with the man he replaced in the top job. NEW PODCAST LISTEN NOW
Victoria was in limbo after the 1999 election, but three independent MPs emerged as kingmakers. Now some of them have revealed what it was like dealing with Steve Bracks and Jeff Kennett — including whether the former Liberal leader dropped the f-bomb.
A health inspector who blew the whistle on a Dandenong council after it allegedly pressured her to fabricate evidence in its pursuit of iCook Foods over a listeria outbreak, is now fighting for compensation.
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