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Surging support for the Coalition has put Victoria’s political contest on a knife’s edge.

Victoria enters election year on political knife’s edge as opposition support surges

The latest Resolve Political Monitor shows Jess Wilson is the most popular Liberal leader since the survey began and voters back Labor’s youth crime changes.

  • Chip Le Grand and Kieran Rooney

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Public health advocates have urged Treasurer Jaclyn Symes and Premier Jacinta Allan to keep VicHealth as a standalone organisation.

‘Bone-headed decision’: Government under pressure to spare VicHealth from axe

Former heads of VicHealth from across the political divide have called on the Allan government to reverse its decision to abolish the health promotions agency.

  • Chip Le Grand
The Victorian government has let transparency and integrity issues slide, with legislation falling short of recommended benchmarks.

Keeping secrets: How Victoria has fallen behind other states on integrity

They’re the reports gathering dust as the state focuses on crime, housing and health. But Victoria’s integrity system no longer looks fit for purpose.

  • Royce Millar
Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Jaclyn Symes

Public service report casts a harsh light on state’s spending

The government’s ambitions have galloped far ahead of its capacity to pay for or properly deliver them.

  • The Age's View
Victoria’s auditor-general has warned the state will not meet its offshore wind targets.

Victoria will miss 2032 offshore wind targets, likely to face electricity shortfalls: report

There is still no port approved to support the assembly of wind turbines, and the government had also delayed offshore wind auctions, meant to start this year.

  • Kieran Rooney

Car park requirements set to be scrapped in planning shake-up

Minimum parking spaces in buildings close to public transport are set to go under the Allan government’s plan, while developers are set to pay more than $11,000 per unit.

  • Daniella White
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A large haul of luxury bling is being sold by First State Auctions.

Money can’t buy you class – this haul of luxury bling is proof of that

No money is more classless than money procured through criminal enterprise.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Jess Wilson and Jacinta Allan.

What the major parties need to fix before next November

With a state election looming, Labor and the Liberals have their work cut out when it comes to winning over voters.

  • Annika Smethurst
The Metro Tunnel attracted a steady flow of sightseers on Monday, but is unlikely to be used by many commuters until a new timetable starts.

Firefighters probed over ‘incredibly dangerous’ intrusion into Metro Tunnel

Fire Rescue Victoria is investigating why firefighters entered the Metro Tunnel without authorisation on Sunday, disrupting services on the opening day of the cross-city rail line.

  • Patrick Hatch, Gemma Grant and Cassandra Morgan
Passengers at Anzac station on Monday.

Melbourne Metro Tunnel as it happened: First weekday passengers travel on new services; Firefighters’ union responds to trespassing claims

All the news from the second day of train services running through the Metro Tunnel on a reduced summer timetable.

  • Cassandra Morgan, Gemma Grant and Patrick Hatch

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