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Annika SmethurstThe Daily Telegraph |
The departure of Daniel Andrews and a rare reprieve from leadership chatter granted to John Pesutto has done little to quell broader leadership...
The most remarkable aspect of asbestos-contaminated mulch being discovered at Melbourne playgrounds is that it took just one parent to identify a...
After weeks of instability and a growing number of legal fights, Opposition Leader John Pesutto has been thrown a political lifeline. Research by...
If you needed an insight into how the state government operates, you could do worse than read the auditor-general’s report into the axing of the...
The recent departure of two of the opposition leader’s top advisors – chief of staff Rodrigo Pintos-Lopez and communications director Nick...
There are few events sadder than an election night party where the candidate has lost. The moment the swing is on, the sausage rolls seem colder, the...
The catastrophic storm that swept over the state last week and left almost half a million Victorians in the dark has kicked off a much-needed debate...
If you ever needed a clear sign that the Andrewsian era – that is, the period during which Dan reigned over us all – has ended, you needn’t look...
It’s long been accepted in the Liberal Party that sometimes you have to give a bit of “red meat to the base”. Be it advocating for mandatory...
Two weeks before Australians voted in the Voice referendum, Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh gave his word to a senior member of the Allan...
For a politician who hails from Labor’s Socialist Left faction, Jacinta Allan has never really been a champion for social reforms. Supportive, yes....
I’ll let you in on a little secret. Victoria’s newest premier, Jacinta Allan, is a Swiftie. That is, a Taylor Swift mega-fan. It was Allan’s...
The Melbourne suburb of Frankston – the centre of an upcoming political battle for the federal seat of Dunkley – has a strange curse over the...
A mere 72 hours before John Pesutto was due to mark 12 months as opposition leader, exiled Liberal Moira Deeming followed through on her threat and...
Victoria’s public service is infected by a culture of fear that stops many bureaucrats from giving frank and fearless advice to the state...
What do you get when you have two governments with soaring debt bills and no one wants to pay for anything? Buck-passing, cost shifting and blame. ...
If Jacinta Allan was asked to predict her first 100 days in office before becoming leader, it is unlikely she would have forecast that she’d be...
The sight of Victorian Cabinet ministers, spotted in the wild doorknocking in Mulgrave ahead of Saturday's byelection, triggered a wave of excitement...
One of the best gifts Prime Minister Anthony Albanese could give Jacinta Allan this Christmas would be an excuse for her to press pause on the...
Joan Kirner loved political cartoons. The Kirner fridge, as she wrote in The Age in 2004 was heaving with editorial drawings that sat alongside...
For the most part, state MPs steered clear of the Voice to parliament debate, and none more so than those whose positions were at odds with the people...
Tremendous progress. That was the description Jacinta Allan reached for when she was asked to provide an update on the government’s delivery of the...
To borrow some footy terminology (for those of us mourning the end of the perfect AFL season), Jacinta Allan was always going to make some changes to...
Was Daniel Andrews worth a quarter of a million votes for Labor? That’s the calculation which will determine whether the government – under newly...
Hidden among the pledges of unity and service from newly installed Premier Jacinta Allan was a subtle promise to change the style of leadership we...
Hang around parliaments long enough, and you soon realise there is no shortage of policy problems. Every day it’s a different coloured ribbon and...
Almost a decade ago, when former New Zealand prime minister John Key won a third term in office, he knew his government’s days were numbered....