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THE Victorian Liberal Party has surrendered the prospect of Tony Abbott’s popularity improving in the nation’s second biggest state.

VICTORIAN Labor leader Daniel Andrews’ leadership authority is under siege over his failure to deal with a dirty tricks campaign.

THE Victorian Liberal Party habitually exploits legal loopholes to hide large donors’ names from scrutiny.

DANIEL Andrews has denied Labor figures intercepted and distributed an interview with former Victorian premier Ted Baillieu.

John Ferguson and PIA AKERMAN

VICTORIAN ALP figures are at the centre of allegations they intercepted and distributed a conversation between Ted Baillieu and a journalist.

VICTORIAN Premier Denis Napthine has been urged to run a “ferocious’’ negative campaign against his left-wing Labor opponent.

THE HIV-positive dentist in eastern Victoria alerted authorities to his status in January.

HUNDREDS of patients of a dentist in eastern Victoria need to be tested for HIV after the practitioner contracted the virus.

SURVIVORS of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfire have warned the $500m will never compensate for the large-scale loss of life.

AROUND 400 people in an eastern Victorian town have been told to take an HIV test after an infected health worker was discovered.