Inside Hawthorn
6 December
Victorian election
The Liberal Party won back Hawthorn, but can they keep it?
Hawthorn is now almost certainly a Liberal seat after four years of being Labor but change is afoot so can the party hold onto it?
- by Clay Lucas
Latest
Lawyer, MP and ‘son of a sparky’ – Pesutto says he can appeal to all
Despite being the MP for leafy, blue-chip Hawthorn, Liberal leadership aspirant John Pesutto says he’s the man who can ‘reach out to all corners of the state’.
- by Clay Lucas
Liberals could cling to key seats as teals fall behind on postal votes
A number of Melbourne electorates remain too close to call, but postal vote counting on Sunday was trending away from the independents and towards the Liberal Party.
- by Annika Smethurst
27 November
Victorian election
Liberal John Pesutto pulls ahead of teal in Hawthorn as postal votes go his way
The Victorian Liberal Party leadership contender has edged ahead of teal candidate Melissa Lowe in the ultra-marginal seat of Hawthorn.
- by Clay Lucas
Opinion
Opinion
Bulldozing the childhood home: when is heritage a four-letter word?
Buildings hold our stories and memories. They support our internal architecture. And for decades, that apartment block held mine. It still does.
- by Bianca Hall
25 November
Victorian election
‘Like polling booth Survivor Island’: Hawthorn candidates exhausted as pre-poll comes to an end
As the campaign ends, the four main candidates in the marginal seat of Hawthorn have given it their all at pre-polling - and are weary as election day looms.
- by Clay Lucas
24 November
Victorian election
Labor and teals target Liberals in marginal seats in campaign’s final days
Teal independents running in three marginal seats have released polling commissioned by Climate 200 pointing to major concern among voters in the electorates about the logging of native forests.
- by Clay Lucas
21 November
Melbourne
Flyers from Libs and teals go on the attack as election day looms
Competition for the state seats of Hawthorn and Kew is heating up, with the Liberal Party putting flyers in letterboxes in the electorates saying a vote for a teal independent candidate is a vote to re-elect the Andrews government.
- by Clay Lucas
November 21
Victorian election
‘Open slather’ for developers is bad news for heritage, Hawthorn campaigners say
Heritage has been one of the most contested spaces in Melbourne’s inner east, but at this election only one candidate in Hawthorn has made its protection a core issue.
- by Clay Lucas
November 18
Victorian election
Feed frenzy: How your local candidate is all up in your socials
State political advertising in key seats is now less about the leader and more about the local candidate.
- by Bianca Hall, Clay Lucas and Rachael Dexter
November 17
Victorian election
Tribunal overturns VEC ban on teal how-to-vote cards
Justice Michelle Quigley found she was “not satisfied that on all of the material that the card is likely to mislead or deceive” voters.
- by David Estcourt and Clay Lucas
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