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Battin’s Liberals are soaring in the polls. They might just be the dog that caught the car
Like long-term inmates plotting another jailhouse hit, the Victorian Liberals have been more focused on the power balance within H-Block than gaining early release.
- Chip Le Grand
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Labor’s disastrous poll result will be met by disbelief – followed by hard questions
A 22 per cent primary vote for state Labor is a number so bad that it barely computes.
- Chip Le Grand
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‘They’ve turned off Allan’: Victorian Labor vote plunges to historic low, poll shows
A new survey shows the Allan government is facing a collapse in public support.
- Chip Le Grand
Property owner donated to Nick Reece’s campaign two days after crucial vote
The lord mayor accepted a donation from Audi Centre Melbourne after voting to discontinue part the West Melbourne street adjoining the business.
- Cara Waters
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- Jacinta Allan
One year on, Premier Jacinta Allan must forge a new path
However much Allan may wish to draw a line between her government and that of Daniel Andrews, on a host of unresolved problems and failures, Allan herself is the point of continuity between that era and the one she is trying to establish as her own.
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John Pesutto within striking distance as state’s preferred premier
Labor’s primary vote remains stubbornly stuck behind the Coalition, as Pesutto moves within one point of Allan as preferred leader.
- Annika Smethurst
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Former Victorian teal candidates threaten High Court challenge over donation laws
The Allan government is facing a challenge over claims that Victoria’s political donation laws are a rort giving the major parties an unfair advantage.
- Josh Gordon
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Politics is getting increasingly dangerous. Even here in Victoria
Threats to kill the premier and attempts to burn down electoral offices - the violence that infected politics overseas is taking root here in Victoria.
- Annika Smethurst
Pesutto tightens grip on Liberal leadership in moderate mauling of conservative forces
Morale was “through the roof” at the Victorian Liberals’ state council, which shaped as a test of the Opposition Leader’s power.
- Mathew Dunckley
Push to cut access to ‘unfair’ donor organisations for election funding
Labor and the Coalition could be barred from using cash donated by their investment organisations to help fund election campaigns if an independent review panel’s recommendations are adopted.
- Rachel Eddie
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