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SMH/The Age editorial cartoon for February 14 2025 by Cathy Wilcox

Electoral Reform Bill leaves a sour taste

Readers are not all happy about the election funding reforms which advantage the ALP and the Coalition over independents.

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Premier Jacinta Allan on Sunday after a big swing against Labor in the Werribee byelection.

Premier, the people have spoken. Listen to them

Labor received a walloping in the Werribee byelection last Saturday. It’s now up to Premier Jacinta Allan whether her government chooses to heed the message.

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Jacinta Allan arrives at Labor’s election night bash.

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.

  • Rachel Eddie
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Premier Jacinta Allan.

Federal MPs furious over Allan’s Suburban Rail Loop ‘blackmail’

A tense stand-off over project funding has prompted Victorian federal MPs to demand Jacinta Allan cease holding out for extra rail loop money.

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Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift at last year’s Super Bowl.

Everyone who matters is at the Super Bowl, Eddie McGuire tells us. Except Eddie McGuire

Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans is contemporary culture’s neutron star. This year, all eyes will be on the corporate socials for box billionaire Anthony Pratt and his son Leon.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Badiucao cartoon for USAID, letters page February 10, 2025.

Jacinta Allan’s government living on borrowed time

Readers look at the weekend’s two state byelection results and what they mean for Jacinta Allan.

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Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan at a press conference on Sunday after big swings away from Labor at the Werribee byelection.

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.

  • Chip Le Grand and Rachel Eddie
Federal Greens leader Adam Bandt and Greens candidate Angelica Di Camillo hand out how-to-vote cards in South Yarra on Saturday morning.

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.

  • Chip Le Grand
A voting centre for the seat of Werribee at Manor Lakes Primary School in Wyndham Vale.

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.

  • Chip Le Grand
The vote is an inconveniently timed reminder of how much Anthony Albanese’s stocks have fallen.

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.

  • Ashleigh McMillan and Broede Carmody

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