Pesutto on notice as MPs called to debate Deeming
Embattled Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto faces a special party room meeting to debate his handling and the future of ousted MP Moira Deeming, with a spill before Christmas ‘not ruled out’.
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Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas will quit politics after 10 years running the budget, leaving a legacy of record high debt, soaring taxes and business anger.
‘Enormous debt, highest taxes’: Pesutto’s blast for outgoing Treasurer
After Victoria’s longest serving Treasurer Tim Pallas announced he was quitting politics, Opposition Leader John Pesutto said his legacy would be one of ‘enormous debt that Victorians in the present … and future generations will be saddled with’.
Pesutto frontbencher quits, turning up leadership heat
Victorian Liberal frontbencher Sam Groth has stunned his colleagues by quitting the frontbench, declaring that he could not ethically remain given the nature of John Pesutto’s defamation defeat.
Pesutto defiant despite $300k defamation loss
A defiant John Pesutto has challenged rivals to blast him from the leadership in the wake of a damning Federal Court defamation judgment that has awarded expelled Liberal MP Moira Deeming $300,000 in damages.
Pesutto’s court D-Day ends in a financial and leadership car crash
John Pesutto had a terrible day in court and he’s still got Moira Deeming breathing down his neck.
State Parks body at risk of extinction
Parks Victoria’s five remaining directors have had their terms slashed as the Allan government mulls whether to dump the crisis-ridden organisation.
1992 report questions significance of rock art behind climb bans
Cultural heritage experts have known for decades many of the rock art and quarry sites at Victoria’s Mount Arapiles are of minor significance.
Parks chief under pressure for weeks over climbing, access errors
Parks Victoria boss Matthew Jackson’s had faced weeks of uncertainty over his job after his organisation had made a series of misjudgments.
The worst excesses of bureaucratic overreach in climbing saga
From the outset five years ago, Parks Victoria went on a mission to discredit a politically weak user group with every blunt pen-pushing instrument it could find.
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