Politics
Victoria
‘We failed these children’: Education department apologises to two child sex-abuse victims
The minister has said sorry after victims of a paedophile teacher were subjected to “shocking” failures by the Department of Education.
- by Noel Towell, Hannah Hammoud and Caroline Schelle
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How your suburb’s lack of trees could be affecting your health
As Melbourne sweltered through another scorching day, we tested the temperature on a footpath with no tree canopy. The results were eye-watering.
- by Bianca Hall
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Lung cancer
At least four ABC employees die from asbestos exposure
Many more are believed to have been exposed to the deadly substance at the broadcaster’s old studios in Elsternwick and the CBD.
- by Henrietta Cook
Opinion
Victorian Parliament
Allan won’t back down on SRL. She should re-read her old speeches
The prime minister is in no hurry to drop billions on the Suburban Rail Loop, an undertaking so gargantuan that most of us will be dead before it’s completed.
- by Chip Le Grand
Horror budget ahead as voters desert Labor
There is limited room in the state budget to respond to voter frustrations in the west after Labor’s primary vote collapsed 16.7 per cent in the Werribee byelection.
- by Rachel Eddie
Werribee voters face long wait for byelection result in cliffhanger count
The count in a seat the Liberal Party has not held for 46 years has upended the established order of Victorian politics and delivered a potent message to the Allan government.
- by Chip Le Grand and Rachel Eddie
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Victorian byelection
Learning nothing from their humiliation in Prahran, Greens will march on
If the Greens were a party with serious aspirations to govern, they would be mortified by the message from the Prahran byelection.
- by Chip Le Grand
Push for review into shambolic Werribee byelection count
The Victorian Electoral Commission ordered one of its own officials to leave a polling place after they were overheard telling people to vote Liberal.
- by Chip Le Grand
Liberals claim victory in Prahran as Greens concede defeat
The Greens blamed preference deals and low voter turnout for their failure to hold the inner-Melbourne seat.
- by Rachel Eddie
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Victorian byelection
Voters abandon Labor in Werribee and Greens in Prahran, but byelections too close to call
Western suburbs voters have hammered the Allan government in Werribee – though they didn’t fully embrace the Liberal Party – while the Greens conceded Prahran was “on a knife’s edge”.
- by Chip Le Grand, Rachel Eddie, Adam Carey and Nicole Precel
As it happened: Werribee, Prahran byelection; Major parties battle for crucial Victorian seats
It’s a super byelection Saturday as voters take to the polls in both Werribee and Prahran. Follow all the latest live updates.
- by Ashleigh McMillan and Broede Carmody
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria