The glaring weakness in the world’s shiniest democracy is there is no practical way to punt an unsound leader. It has never happened, partly because the constitutional mechanisms for such drastic action cannot work in practice.
As Greg Lynn was about to be told the direction of the rest of his life he remained in control, presenting more like a librarian than a murder defendant.
Under Lily D’Ambrosio’s plan there will be little gas, and no coal or nuclear power in Victoria in the future, but hot air from the energy minister’s social media posts should keep us toasty until spring.
He didn’t lock down playgrounds based on “the science” or spend $600m not to host the Commonwealth Games but here’s a radical thought — the Companion of the Order of Australia should have gone to Neale Daniher, not Daniel Andrews.
Peter Blunden’s 48 years of journalistic leadership has been recognised with a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the King’s Birthday Honours List.
The University of Melbourne forgot the “basic humanity” of Indigenous people, and much of what it once studied, taught and preached was driven by racism, according to a new book.
When Andrew Pirrie sent a letter to his brother Dick in 1944 it went unanswered – the hopeful footy player known as “Digger” had been killed on his 24th birthday in the D-Day Invasion.
Victoria’s police commissioner Shane Patton may claim he isn’t woke but his decision to apologise to the Stolen Generation 16 years after Kevin Rudd did so makes him sound a lot less like an everyday cop.
When Sam Fisher is jailed on Thursday, he will assume a role he never would have contemplated at the height of his AFL career. He’s become a case study in how the transition from sports star to has-been can go so wrong.
Many of the unanswered questions over the deaths of Russell Hill and Carol Clay were addressed in the opening hours of the Supreme Court case, but as Greg Lynn’s version of events is pressed, a lengthy trial awaits.
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