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Opposition Leader Brad Battin is pictured earlier this month.

Battin wants Pesutto to keep seat amid bankruptcy threat from Deeming’s costs

Liberal elders are running out of options on how to spare former party leader John Pesutto from bankruptcy, which would force his exit from parliament and a byelection.

  • Rachel Eddie

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Moira Deeming and John Pesutto.

Deeming’s costs could bankrupt Pesutto. This donor doesn’t care

Bankruptcy disqualifies anybody from being a member of parliament. Under this scenario, a live possibility, Pesutto would be forced out and a byelection called for his marginal seat of Hawthorn.

  • Rachel Eddie
Victorian Opposition Leader Brad Battin.

‘Cancel it’: Brad Battin ups the ante on Suburban Rail Loop

The opposition leader has strengthened the Coalition’s stance against the SRL following a report critical of how the state government can pay for it.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Northern Metropolitan MP Evan Mulholland is a man on a mission.

Outbreak of unity among Libs as party finds common ground at Liberty Forum

Rusted-on moderate Evan Mulholland will make speak at an event that puts saving the suburbs at the top of its agenda.

  • Broede Carmody and Kishor Napier-Raman
Self-described ‘amateur Sherlock Holmes’ Colin Robertson, presented his theory at a press conference called by now Opposition Leader Brad Battin in 2023.

Cyclist at centre of ‘Bike Boy’ campaign has no control over funds raised for his fight

As the state Liberal leader broke his silence on the Bike Boy campaign, more details have emerged about how funds – and potential court winnings – for the cyclist are being held.

  • Sherryn Groch
An aerial view of Frankston, where apartments up to 16-storeys tall have been approved.

Housing targets scaled back across Melbourne

The state government also says it is cutting back plans for medium-density development because of response from the community.

  • Rachael Dexter
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Brad Battin says he will support the government’s legislation, with one key change.

The four words blocking the government’s hate speech laws

Victorian Opposition Leader Brad Battin has offered Premier Jacinta Allan bipartisan support for proposed hate laws currently before parliament if she agrees to remove four words from the legislation.

  • Chip Le Grand
Federal Greens leader Adam Bandt and Greens candidate Angelica Di Camillo hand out how-to-vote cards in South Yarra on Saturday morning.

Learning nothing from their humiliation in Prahran, Greens will march on

If the Greens were a party with serious aspirations to govern, they would be mortified by the message from the Prahran byelection.

  • Chip Le Grand
The vote is an inconveniently timed reminder of how much Anthony Albanese’s stocks have fallen.

As it happened: Werribee, Prahran byelection; Major parties battle for crucial Victorian seats

It’s a super byelection Saturday as voters take to the polls in both Werribee and Prahran. Follow all the latest live updates.

  • Ashleigh McMillan and Broede Carmody
Voters arrive to vote at Iramoo Primary School in Wyndham Vale

‘A kick in the pants’: Voters in fed-up Werribee send a message

Crime and roads, roads and crime. These are the issues Werribee voters say matter, and they say no one has done anything about either of them.

  • Liam Mannix

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