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John Lister, Labor Party candidate for Werribee and Premier Jacinta Allan are seen at the Labor Party in Werribee on Saturday, 8 February 2025.

Labor on edge of victory in Werribee

Latest counting has extended school teacher John Lister’s lead in the formerly safe Labor seat despite a huge swing against the Allan government.

  • Chip Le Grand

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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.

  • The Age's View

The story goes that Labor failed the west. It doesn’t stack up

Readers respond to the fallout from the Werribee byelection and Donald Trump’s tariffs on Australian steel and aluminium.

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

Do you trust a US led by Trump? I don’t

Readers question Australia’s relationship with the US in the age of Donald Trump, and react to the byelection results in Werribee and Prahran.

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
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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
Rachel Westaway in Prahran on Sunday,

Liberals claim victory in Prahran as Greens concede defeat

The Greens blamed preference deals and low voter turnout for their failure to hold the inner-Melbourne seat.

  • Rachel Eddie
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan at a school in January.

Werribee speaks, Labor shudders: The swing that can’t be ignored

Significant swings away from state Labor in Werribee will put Anthony Albanese and his federal colleagues on notice that they can’t take Victoria for granted.

  • James Massola

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