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Battin sought to avoid a coup, but ended up creating the perfect conditions for one

In an attempt to hold on to the throne, the opposition leader managed to infuriate, anger or irritate colleagues. Including those whose support helped...

yesterday 6

Chip Le Grand

There’s a way for the Libs out of their climate mess. Just ask the Victorians

Liberal James Newbury says we don’t want representatives who believe climate change is a hoax, the earth is flat and the moon landing was faked.

12.11.2025 6

Chip Le Grand

Less is more when it comes to extending vicarious liability for historical child sex abuse

The Victorian government is divided on how to extend vicarious liability for historical child sex abuse to religious orders and other organisations.

05.11.2025 3

Chip Le Grand

Allan’s planning changes are welcome. Neighbours should not have the right to block your build

I never understood why our neighbours felt entitled to interrogate every aspect of the construction of our new house, as though they were hosting an...

29.10.2025 6

Chip Le Grand

A woman was randomly stabbed in the CBD. It could have been stopped

There’s a big divide in cabinet about how to deal with crime in Victoria. Those who want to adopt the “zero-tolerance” approach made famous by...

22.10.2025 9

Chip Le Grand

Premier’s tone-deaf response to a city crying for help

Any politician attuned to the public mood should understand Melbourne has had a gutful, but our premier seems unable to even identify the problem.

20.10.2025 3

Chip Le Grand

Like Dutton with the apology, Victoria’s opposition has turned its back on a key moment

As the parliament rose to applaud the speeches of Aboriginal leaders, opposition MPs stayed glued to their seats.

16.10.2025 20

Chip Le Grand

Jacinta Allan’s missed meeting and the political calculus of the Metro Tunnel

The premier has spent three days ribbon cutting the same project. Someone should remind her that governing and campaigning are two different things.

08.10.2025 6

Chip Le Grand

To understand the Liberal Party, just follow the hatreds

Having helped broker a deal to keep John Pesutto out of bankruptcy, Liberal leader Brad Battin should return him to his frontbench.

01.10.2025 9

Chip Le Grand

Four years too late, Andrews’ secret week in the witness box may finally come to light

When the most powerful political figure in the state is questioned on issues that go to his integrity and that of his government, it is hard to...

24.09.2025 4

Chip Le Grand

If you’re shocked by the arrival of treaty in Victoria, you’ve not been paying attention

Treaty is not a policy or a debate. In Victoria, it is here. Rueben Berg, who helped negotiate it, says what matters now is making it work.

10.09.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

More ‘good people’ needed to tackle our population debate

Albanese’s good people are not dills. They understand that Australia and particularly, its three big eastern seaboard cities, are growing at a rate...

04.09.2025 20

Chip Le Grand

For Victoria, Allan’s bounce back is anything but healthy

A looming electoral cataclysm for Victorian Labor has been replaced by the likelihood of a fourth consecutive win. It is remarkable and disturbing.

20.08.2025 5

Chip Le Grand

Those who profit from childcare must put safety first, or get out of the industry

The most ambitious reform in the childcare review would see owners, funders and board members of for-profit centres forced to make the interests of...

20.08.2025 7

Chip Le Grand

Victoria is the nation’s debt dunce but the competition is hotting up

Any serious conversation about tax reform should consider how our broken state arrangements are feeding a debt binge.

13.08.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

Victoria is the nation’s debt dunce but the competition is hotting up

Any serious conversation about tax reform should consider how our broken state arrangements are feeding a debt binge.

13.08.2025 7

Chip Le Grand

Victoria is the nation’s debt dunce but the competition is hotting up

Any serious conversation about tax reform should consider how our broken state arrangements are feeding a debt binge.

13.08.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

Victoria is the nation’s debt dunce but the competition is hotting up

Any serious conversation about tax reform should consider how our broken state arrangements are feeding a debt binge.

13.08.2025 9

Chip Le Grand

Dear Leader Jacinta Allan will fight for your right to do what you’re already doing

When the premier first announced her Two-Day Plan, it was not immediately clear what problem she was promising to solve.

06.08.2025 9

Chip Le Grand

On Labor’s pitch for working from home, Allan finds her cause

The Victorian government’s work-from-home pledge is light on detail, but the politics are devilishly clever.

02.08.2025 9

Chip Le Grand

Even for less than honourable professions, this was way out of bounds

If the Sam Groth case goes to trial, it will be nervously watched by media organisations which lobbied for years against the introduction of a privacy...

30.07.2025 9

Chip Le Grand

Premier gives thanks to her everlasting gift: the Liberal Party

In an almost world exclusive, Chip Le Grand imagines what it might be like to visit Jacinta Allan’s sprawling rural estate.

16.07.2025 30

Chip Le Grand

‘Wave of hate’: Our response to this report will show how deep the poison runs

At a time when the Holocaust is falling out of living memory, we are leaving young people to their own devices, quite literally, to separate fact from...

10.07.2025 4

Chip Le Grand

Treaty 1 is only the start. Just don’t tell John Howard

The realisation of treaty between Australia’s First Peoples and the Crown will be a profound moment but the contents of the agreement may seem...

09.07.2025 9

Chip Le Grand

The hot-take flying monkeys are circling again. It’s time they got out of the way

Victoria’s record in Aboriginal affairs suggests we either hate black people or don’t know what the f--- we are doing.

03.07.2025 30

Chip Le Grand

The final Yoorrook report delivers unapologetic truths

The Yoorrook recommendations offer a radical blueprint for Aboriginal self-determination and a road map for how to fund it.

01.07.2025 6

Chip Le Grand

Allan has time to abandon Melbourne’s gargantuan folly. But it’s about to run out

If Labor dumped the Suburban Rail Loop it would waste an obscene quantity of taxpayer dollars. But it’s the right thing to do when you consider the...

26.06.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

This developer wants to keep Pesutto on a leash. What’s worse, Liberals are entertaining the idea

Property developer Hilton Grugeon has offered the former Victorian Liberal leader a $1 million lifeline that would save his political career, for now....

19.06.2025 40

Chip Le Grand

Pesutto stakes retirement savings in last-ditch effort to save his political career

The Victorian Liberals’ rescue plan for John Pesutto will complete his descent from party leader to indentured servant.

11.06.2025 7

Chip Le Grand

You can’t handle the truth about Victoria’s secret school cuts

What did we learn from Education Minister Ben Carroll’s appearance before budget estimates? As it turns out, quite a bit.

04.06.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

Liberals brace for impact as Cyclone Moira makes landfall

Deeming’s ultimate mission is not to return the Victorian Liberal Party, in its current form, to government. It is to remake it in her ideological...

28.05.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

In Jacinta Allan, Melbourne Jews have discovered a friend

The premier’s decision to toast Israel’s independence when condemnation of the war in Gaza is reaching a crescendo is unlikely to win her votes...

28.05.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

Victoria has a whopping debt. Jacinta Allan is betting that nobody cares

Like a recovering alcoholic in denial, the government has set out a five-step strategy for recovery but has no plans to stop drinking.

21.05.2025 4

Chip Le Grand

In Allan’s Victoria, pouring concrete is more important than our kids

Premier Jacinta Allan has put infrastructure projects above the needs of the state’s struggling schools.

14.05.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

Lesson for the Liberals: do the opposite of what Peta Credlin says

Victoria was fertile ground for a coherent and considered Coalition pitch to voters. Driving a truck with Jacinta Allan’s face plastered on it...

07.05.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

Jacinta Allan is either delusional or dogged by claiming election was a mandate for SRL

The premier’s press conference at a dusty Suburban Rail Loop construction site encapsulated the battle raging between her supporters and detractors...

05.05.2025 7

Chip Le Grand

Liberals left reeling as Victoria delivers knockout blow

It is a cataclysmic result for a party that at the start of the campaign saw the state as its path back to power.

03.05.2025 9

Chip Le Grand

Liberals left reeling as Victoria delivers knockout blow

It is a cataclysmic result for a party that at the start of the campaign saw the state as its path back to power.

03.05.2025 30

Chip Le Grand

Liberals left reeling as Victoria delivers knockout blow

It is a cataclysmic result for a party that at the start of the campaign saw the state as its path back to power.

03.05.2025 20

Chip Le Grand

Liberals left reeling as Victoria delivers knockout blow

It is a cataclysmic result for a party that at the start of the campaign saw the state as its path back to power.

03.05.2025 9

Chip Le Grand

It’s a Morrison slug so awful that Dr Evil would be proud. Labor won’t touch it

The culture-war policy shows the Coalition’s disdain of higher learning and Labor’s timid approach towards reform.

01.05.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

It’s a Morrison slug so awful that Dr Evil would be proud. Labor won’t touch it

The culture-war policy shows the Coalition’s disdain of higher learning and Labor’s timid approach towards reform.

01.05.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

It’s a Morrison slug so awful that Dr Evil would be proud. Labor won’t touch it

The culture-war policy shows the Coalition’s disdain of higher learning and Labor’s timid approach towards reform.

01.05.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

It’s a Morrison slug so awful that Dr Evil would be proud. Labor won’t touch it

The culture-war policy shows the Coalition’s disdain of higher learning and Labor’s timid approach towards reform.

01.05.2025 6

Chip Le Grand

Just not kosher. The diabolical dilemma facing Jewish voters in Macnamara

This electoral conundrum is causing more anxiety for Jewish voters than a Woody Allen screenplay.

24.04.2025 8

Chip Le Grand

Just not kosher. The diabolical dilemma facing Jewish voters in Macnamara

This electoral conundrum is causing more anxiety for Jewish voters than a Woody Allen screenplay.

24.04.2025 8

Chip Le Grand

Just not kosher. The diabolical dilemma facing Jewish voters in Macnamara

This electoral conundrum is causing more anxiety for Jewish voters than a Woody Allen screenplay.

24.04.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

Just not kosher. The diabolical dilemma facing Jewish voters in Macnamara

This electoral conundrum is causing more anxiety for Jewish voters than a Woody Allen screenplay.

24.04.2025 8

Chip Le Grand

The leader most likely to lose their job after the federal election? Jacinta Allan

There will be no move against Allan while the campaign is on but if Labor does as badly in Victoria as the polls suggest, senior party figures have...

02.04.2025 10

Chip Le Grand

The leader most likely to lose their job after the federal election? Jacinta Allan

There will be no move against Allan while the campaign is on but if Labor does as badly in Victoria as the polls suggest, senior party figures have...

02.04.2025 8

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Battin sought to avoid a coup, but ended up creating the perfect conditions for one

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