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Matt JohnstonMajor Projects Editor

Matt Johnston is major projects editor at the Herald Sun. He is a former state political editor who has covered local, state and federal politics since 2008. He is a three-time Quill award winner and a Walkley Awards finalist.

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ALP State conference, Melbourne Town Hall. Labor Party. Labor upper house MP Khalil Eideh.

Anger as Vic MP rejected by US

THE Andrews Government is demanding American authorities reveal why a state Labor MP on a taxpayer-funded study tour overseas was blocked from entering the United States this morning.

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Art for euth story online HS

Deputy Premier slams Labor death bill

EXCLUSIVE: DEPUTY Premier James Merlino has sensationally split from Premier Daniel Andrews, slamming Labor’s voluntary euthanasia laws as endorsing suicide and putting the vulnerable at risk.

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Premier Daniel Andrews speaks at parliament after announcing the state government will table euthanasia laws in next year in Melbourne, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

Victorian euthanasia plan unveiled

TERMINALLY ill adults who are suffering would be able to apply for life-ending drugs under Victoria’s first voluntary euthanasia laws — but there are strict safeguards to avoid misuse of deadly drugs.

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Rachel Carling-Jenkins with Cory Bernardi at Parliament House in Melbourne. Carling-Jenkins has defected to Cory Bernardi's party. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

Why I joined Cory’s Conservatives

THE state MP who will switch from the Democratic Labour Party to the Australian Conservatives has revealed why she made the switch and how it will affect the way she votes in State Parliament.

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