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.
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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.
‘Backyards’: State’s wild bid for more homes
One state wants to make it easier to divide up blocks of land in a bid to boost housing supply by “unlocking land in people’s backyards”.
Lockdown Dan’s new ‘mental health’ role an insult to Victorian parents
The backlash to Daniel Andrews’ appointment at a youth mental health service was harsh and immediate. And for me, it came with a personal insight.
‘Worst in Australia’: Dan Andrews slammed
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been accused of presiding over an “incompetent” government that is the “worst in Australia”.
‘Moronic’ Andrews reign blasted
Peter Costello has launched a scathing attack on the ‘moronic’ Victorian Andrews government and made an impassioned plea for a return to good economic management and hands-off ‘limited government’.
Costello blasts Andrews’ ‘moronic’ government for its Covid restrictions
In his most high-profile public appearance since resigning as Nine chairman, Peter Costello also blasted Daniel Andrews for wrongly believing his role was to embark on Indigenous treaty negotiations and join China’s One Belt One Road initiative.
Andrews‘ Games legacy to be laid bare
One of sport’s iconic events is set to be lost to the Commonwealth Games following Dan Andrews’ decision to renege on Victoria hosting the 2026 event.
Protests as Allan pushes suburban high-rise towers
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has announced the first 25 locations for new ‘train and tram zone activity centres’, but some locals are not happy.
State’s dramatic plan for housing crisis
One Aussie state has unveiled a drastic plan to help young people currently locked out of the housing market – but it’s earned the ire of some and led to fierce protests.
State’s huge call on four-day work week
Leaders in one Australian state have made a big call after a new report recommended a four-day work week.
State’s huge call on four-day work week
Leaders in one Australian state have made a big call after a new report recommended a four-day work week.
‘Lockdown Dan’ in mental health role: Kennett slams Andrews’ new job
Jeff Kennett warns the appointment of Daniel Andrews to lead a youth mental health body is ‘destructive’.
Charles and Camilla begin first Australian visit as King and Queen
Rain, VIPs and a strong police presence greeted King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Sydney Airport tonight. The welcome party was led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Governor-General Sam Mostyn.
Ex-premier Kennett sorry after berating woman at Young Libs ball
Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has issued an apology after he lashed out at a woman during the Young Liberals gala ball, prompting calls for him to be kicked out of the event.
What the hell has gone wrong with Victoria?
Victoria’s per capita public debt now stands at $28,000 per man, woman and child – 40 per cent higher than that of the other major states. But the state’s looming fiscal disaster is merely one symptom of a state in much broader disarray.
‘Tell me what voters are thinking’: Dan’s secret poll order to strategist
Daniel Andrews’s taxpayer-funded political strategist was ordered to do detailed voter surveys just weeks before the 2022 poll, secret cabinet-in-confidence documents reveal.
Premier urged to introduce laws to police hate rallies
Premier Jacinta Allan calls on protesters to abandon plans for October 7 protest – but won’t toughen police powers in Victoria.
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