Politics
Victoria
Timelines for swath of Victorian construction projects blow out
From renewing roads and rail lines to building housing, projects across the state have been hit by delays amid higher costs and labour shortages.
- by Kieran Rooney
Latest
The Liberals had a plan to court Chinese Australians. Then they blew it up
The major parties agree the Liberals’ plan to win back Chinese Australians went off the rails during a senator’s television appearance and a devastating Labor response.
- by Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Lawyer X Nicola Gobbo selling Melbourne apartment
The barrister-turned-informer is selling her bayside apartment while in hiding, as a verdict looms in her compensation suit against the state.
- by Sherryn Groch
Greens leave: After 15 years, how Bandt and his party won, and lost, in Melbourne
So confident were the Greens of retaining Melbourne that they barely door-knocked in the seat, as they had their focus elsewhere. Instead, a “perfect storm” has cost the Greens their party leader.
- by Michael Bachelard and Clay Lucas
Vote rigging in local election voids result, as councillor vows to run again
Voters in a part Melbourne’s north will go to a byelection after a tribunal found a vote-tampering scheme might have influenced the result of their council election last year.
- by Adam Carey
Days after contesting Chisholm, Katie Allen reveals stage 4 cancer diagnosis
The former Liberal MP says while there are difficult days ahead, she will face them with “clarity and determination”.
- by Hannah Hammoud
‘Two strikes’ policy for dodgy taxi drivers as Victoria moves to clean up industry
Taxi and ride-share drivers who break the rules multiple times will have their licences suspended or cancelled under a two-strikes policy to be legislated by the Allan government.
- by Kieran Rooney, Brittany Busch and Nick McKenzie
How a Labor power play turned Calwell into Australia’s most unpredictable seat
Counting for the seat in Melbourne’s outer north-west might drag on until June, as the AEC calls it “one of the most complex distributions of preferences we’ve ever done”.
- by Kieran Rooney
Retired policeman charged over citizen’s arrest of alleged vandal
Adam Sontag thought he was doing the right thing when he attempted to arrest a masked teenager allegedly defacing a street sign in Upwey. He is now fighting an assault charge.
- by Cameron Houston
Opinion
Liberal Party
Lesson for the Liberals: do the opposite of what Peta Credlin says
Victoria was fertile ground for a coherent and considered Coalition pitch to voters. Driving a truck with Jacinta Allan’s face plastered on it wasn’t it.
- by Chip Le Grand
Landslides occurred on McCrae cliff for 70 years, inquiry told
Poor drainage, natural springs, building works and inadequate erosion controls are all being probed as potential culprits in January’s landslide in McCrae.
- by Adam Carey
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