Key role for Deeming in by-election
Moira Deeming has missed out on a spot in the Victorian Liberal Party shadow cabinet but newly elected leader Brad Battin says she will play an important role in the party’s campaign for the seat of Werribee.
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Premier expects ‘no repeat’ of ALP’s Dutton meme
Jacinta Allan says she is ‘sure’ the Victorian ALP will be reviewing its processes to ensure a social media attack on Peter and Kirilly Dutton ‘doesn’t happen again’.
Deeming backflip surely the last straw for weak Pesutto
Scared for his own leadership, John Pesutto now wants Moira Deeming back in the party room. His calling for another meeting to enable that vote smacks of putrid desperation. He must be bereft of principles.
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A drover’s dog could probably win the next Victorian state election, but I’m not sure about John Pesutto.
Victorian Libs should be looking at landslide but instead they are convulsed in turmoil
Labor angst at the Coalition’s recovery in the polls should be tempered by the knowledge that the weight of lead in Peter Dutton’s saddlebags continues to grow.
It’s time; Pesutto urged to resign for sake of the state
John Pesutto launched a Hail Mary bid to save his leadership on Sunday – but it’s too late.
Palestinian fury after Allan protest crackdown
Hard-line activists will be banned from hiding their face under law reforms announced by Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan, a move that was criticised by one leading Palestinian group.
State’s astonishing move after protest chaos
Masks, balaclavas, ropes, chains, locks and even glue would all be banned from public demonstrations in one state as part of an astonishing crackdown.
‘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’.
Allan will ‘leave no stone unturned’ to fight anti-Semitism
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is set to introduce a suite of reforms aimed at fighting ‘evil’ anti-Semitism sweeping the state, as the opposition slams Labor for acting too late.
Allan ‘emotional’ at synagogue
The Victorian Premier met with community leaders inside Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue and was shown the destruction from its firebombing.
VIPs enlist in fix-economy army
Visy chair Anthony Pratt, Herald & Weekly Times chair Penny Fowler and AFL CEO Andrew Dillon will form part of the newly established Victorian Premier’s Business Council.
‘I’d already been’: Premier defends no-show at vigil
Jacinta Allan has defended her failure to attend a vigil at the firebombed Adass Israel synagogue on Sunday, saying she had visited the sight of the attack on Friday in the hours after the incident.
‘Watch our words’, ASIO boss warns after synagogue attack
Mike Burgess said on Monday that politically motivated violence is now a ‘principal security concern’, as the national terrorism threat level ‘remains at probable’.
Allan mulls protest bans after pressure from Frydenberg
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan will consider a ban on protests at places of worship, after Josh Frydenberg blasted her for failing to attend a vigil on Sunday and called for the introduction of a permit system.
State Labor’s secret loan debacle
Given Tim Pallas’s failure to manage a secretive investment slush fund operated by his office, his inability to pay down Victoria’s soaring debt and fix problems that have made the state the worst place in the nation to do business is no surprise.
From Garden State to basket case: Victoria the worst for doing business
The state’s dismal budget performance and anti-competitive policies have put Australia’s second biggest jurisdiction behind the pack, according to a new report.
Victoria: a dangerous state of red
The eventual cost of budget repair will be long-lasting and painful.
Music festivals to host state’s pill testing trial
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan says if a young person has a pill in their hands at a musical festival ‘they’re intending to use it’.
Dan’s legacy: an ugly set of numbers
No plan and no idea — ten years of Labor adds up to a budget nightmare for Victorians.
Young gun Chowna among Premier stars called up for Guyana tournie
Five Victorian Premier cricketers, including impressive Melbourne recruit Farzan Chowna, are ready to take on the world’s best in a new T20 tournament in Guyana.
Christmas cancelled: Palestinian protest shatters Myer window dreams
Police, the Victorian Premier and business have slammed the pro-Palestinian group that forced Myer to cancel its Christmas windows opening event.
Opposition doubles down inflation attack on Labor
A Coalition-led Senate inquiry investigating the recent rise in the cost of living has delivered its findings, as the opposition claims Labor has not done enough to stem elevated inflation and an increase in interest rates.
Capital job for Dan’s Covid bungles chief
A senior Victorian bureaucrat who ran Daniel Andrews’ Covid-19 quarantine program is now overseeing Australia’s immigration system from Melbourne while seconded from the Labor state government.
Flawed report safeguards two of the worst state governments in decades
The Covid report is too polite to state the obvious: Victorians were the victims of a huge experiment in mass population control conducted by Daniel Andrews and his health bureaucrats.
Labor owns the ‘pig headed’ email, whoever wrote it
Why Labor’s Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan own the insulting ‘pig headed’ email.
Premier trolled relentlessly as #idon’tstandwithjacinta becomes the new black
Dan Andrews’ replacement is being smashed on social media and has lost the former premier’s hard-core backers sounding an alarm bell for Labor hardheads worried Jacinta Allan’s popularity could be in freefall | WATCH HER CRINGIEST MOMENTS
Pandemic authorities could have communicated better: Sutton
Victoria’s former chief health officer Brett Sutton, who faced media questions with ex-premier Daniel Andrews during the Covid-19 era, agrees the pandemic eroded trust.
Calls for Dan Andrews to be sacked
Protesters have called for the former Victorian premier to be removed from his new role as his salary is revealed.
Andrews can never redeem ‘worst premier’ reputation
Appointing Daniel Andrews to this position is akin to making a convicted pyromaniac the fire brigade commander.
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