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The state budget has served as another reminder of how brilliant the Andrews government is at politics. With Victoria recording the highest debt...
It’s easy to see why Treasurer Tim Pallas has described this – his ninth budget – as the most difficult he has had to deliver. Faced with a sea...
As Treasurer Tim Pallas prepares to bring down his ninth budget on Tuesday, it's important to reflect on what a responsible budget looks like in these...
Moira Deeming may have lost her bid to stay in the Liberal Party’s parliamentary team, but her ghost will continue to haunt the party room. Of the...
It has become a rite of passage for Liberal leaders to live with persistent internal treachery. Malcolm Turnbull had to contend with the Monkey Pod...
It’s almost a year since the Australian Greens recorded their best result in a federal election, expanding their numbers in the House of...
Watching Premier Daniel Andrews respond to a corruption probe, you’d be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss was about. Andrews’ unrivalled...
There is one paragraph in the corruption watchdog’s latest report into the Andrews government's actions that should trouble all Victorians. Found on...
The state budget is 5½ weeks away but Treasurer Tim Pallas is desperate for a miracle. Despite Jim Chalmers warning that slow economic growth and...
How do you solve a problem like Peter Dutton? The hard-headed federal opposition leader who’s apparently holding the Coalition back from the...
Not since Henry Kissinger's secret mission to China in 1971 has a politician worked so hard to keep the media and voters in the dark about a trip...
It was only a week ago that John Pesutto insisted there “wasn’t really any alternative” to expelling Moira Deeming from the Liberal Party...
It took just 100 days for John Pesutto’s Liberal Party leadership to be put at risk, and he has no one to blame but himself. In an attempt to appear...
A status quo result at the Aston byelection – that is, a win for the Liberal Party – is unlikely to provide the job security Peter Dutton craves....
The Andrews government has always been bloody good at politics. This should not minimise its obvious successes, but is simply an acknowledgment of its...
Within minutes of Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, announcing her resignation last month, she was hailed as one of the most dominant...
As Premier Daniel Andrews nears 3000 days in office, he has much to celebrate. Three election wins, an infrastructure pipeline that is radically...
Victorian MPs – from all sides – seem to have collectively decided that nothing they do in the first few months of this term of parliament is...
The once-dominant Victorian Liberal Party is on the hunt for a new state director. The role, akin to that of a chief executive, comes with a...
One of the great flash points of the otherwise dull Victorian election campaign came in late October when NSW Liberal premier Dominic Perrottet...
Just as Labor found political allies in Andy Meddick, Fiona Patten and Samantha Ratnam to help deliver its promises in the last parliament, the...
Before the last Liberal MP left the opposition party room on Thursday, John Pesutto’s ascendancy to the opposition leadership was being hailed a win...
Victorian voters have given a jolt to the major parties and confirmed the resetting of the state’s political landscape. Voters in Melbourne’s...
It’s like climbing Mount Everest, backwards, in a blizzard and without oxygen. That’s the metaphor Opposition Leader Matthew Guy chose to describe...
The gloves stayed on in a genteel debate between Premier Daniel Andrews and Liberal leader Matthew Guy in Box Hill on Tuesday night. If the 100...