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Greens launch music policy.

Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Air guitar-playing Greens promise tax breaks for live-music venues

What better place to launch a live-music policy than a pub beer garden?

  • Cara Waters, Rachael Dexter, Tom Cowie, Charlotte Grieve, Brittany Busch and Tony Wright

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

Dutton dodges questions about Liberal candidate pleading guilty to financial charge

Liberals are asking questions about their party’s vetting process as candidates keep making headlines.

  • James Massola, Natassia Chrysanthos and Olivia Ireland
Youvie Gaba outside Billu’s, the restaurant he owns in Harris Park.

‘You shouldn’t be in survival mode’: Why this Sydney seat matters so much at this election

A booming CBD, nine universities and cultural hubs: Inside the Sydney seat everyone is watching.

  • Matt Wade and Anthony Segaert
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Election 2025: Victorian hot seats

In this series of weekly live blogs, we take an in-depth look of the election campaign in the key Victorian electorates of Goldstein, Wills, Kooyong and Bruce.

Amelia Hamer, the 31-year-old Oxford-educated grandniece of former Victorian premier Sir Rupert “Dick” Hamer.

Amelia Hamer pitched herself as a renter. She owns two investment properties

The Oxford-educated grandniece of former Victorian premier Rupert Hamer describes herself as a renter and someone who empathises with tenants’ struggles.

  • Rachael Dexter
Flyer for Zahid Safi’s campaign launch on Sunday.

Victoria’s hot seats week one as it happened: Bruce is anything but a typical Liberal-Labor contest

Join us over the next five weeks for an in-depth look at the candidates, hot-button issues, and a breakdown of the policies and campaign promises in four key electorates.

  • Clay Lucas, Cara Waters, Rachael Dexter and Charlotte Grieve

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