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Opposition Leader Brad Battin is pictured earlier this month.

Battin wants Pesutto to keep seat amid bankruptcy threat from Deeming’s costs

Liberal elders are running out of options on how to spare former party leader John Pesutto from bankruptcy, which would force his exit from parliament and a byelection.

  • Rachel Eddie

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Moira Deeming and John Pesutto.

Deeming’s costs could bankrupt Pesutto. This donor doesn’t care

Bankruptcy disqualifies anybody from being a member of parliament. Under this scenario, a live possibility, Pesutto would be forced out and a byelection called for his marginal seat of Hawthorn.

  • Rachel Eddie
Opposition Leader Brad Battin announces his shadow cabinet on Tuesday.

Battin unveils new frontbench, with Deeming allies rewarded

Opposition Leader Brad Battin has defended John Pesutto’s shift to the backbench, insisting it was the former leader’s decision.

  • Broede Carmody
New Victorian Liberal leader Brad Battin.

Battin expected to bridge factional divide in new-look frontbench

The newly minted opposition leader is likely to unveil a reshuffled shadow cabinet on Tuesday.

  • Broede Carmody
Race to the bottom.

Waiting years for basic services in new suburbs is just not on

Readers discuss western suburbs with missing infrastructure, changes to the Metro Tunnel project and disengaged school children and their teachers.

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I can’t vote Labor or Liberal, so what are my options?

Readers discuss the change in leadership in the Victorian opposition and the popularity or otherwise of Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.

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Where is Bob Menzies when we need him?

Readers discuss the Victorian opposition leadership spill and the ousting of John Pesutto.

Newly elected Opposition Leader Brad Battin

Brad Battin, having rolled Pesutto, promises unity and makes election pitch

The 49-year-old former police officer, flanked by his new all-male leadership team, has vowed to bring the party together and said he would toughen bail laws and slash taxes.

  • Carla Jaeger and Broede Carmody
Jess Wilson and Brad Battin

A fleeting moment of calm before an unreturned phone call reignited Liberal loathing

Brad Battin and Jess Wilson could have led a next-generation Liberal Party, but neither wanted to play second fiddle, leaving the party riven by the same hatreds that consumed John Pesutto.

  • Chip Le Grand
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Laws can be tedious, but there’s a reason to follow them

Readers discuss reasons to be a law abider and not a lawbreaker, and Victoria’s new congestion levy.

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