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The Victorian Labor Party sees union corruption and criminal infiltration of its Big Build as a lesser evil than giving IBAC the power and funding it...
If you asked AI to devise a policy that would be widely popular, cost the budget nothing and wedge the Victorian opposition, it would probably come up...
Deep thinkers in the Victorian Labor and Liberal parties are grappling with how to inoculate our politics against the hatred of One Nation.
So long as you had a union ticket, the Andrews government was a scoundrel’s dream.
The emergence in Victoria of One Nation, as incongruous as it is for a party with as much connection to this state as the Brisbane Broncos, is shaping...
Away from the chanting and raised fists of the protest movement, there are Jews and Palestinians working quietly to bring people together.
Away from the chanting and raised fists of the protest movement, there are Jews and Palestinians working quietly to bring people together.
Away from the chanting and raised fists of the protest movement, there are Jews and Palestinians working quietly to bring people together.
Away from the chanting and raised fists of the protest movement, there are Jews and Palestinians working quietly to bring people together.
The One Nation leader is turning her attention to Victoria as a voting change could mean an early Christmas for her right-wing party.
Politics in Victoria used to be done better. There is no stronger example than the disciplined bipartisanship that helped create VicHealth.
Who gives a Gonski? Not Victoria. If there was a leagues table for government school funding, it would rank stone-cold last.
If we think of voter grievance as fuel on the forest floor, there is a point in any long-term government where the build-up reaches combustive levels.
A deep rift has emerged between Anthony Albanese, his government and party and Jews who for the past two years asked them to do more to stop...
A deep rift has emerged between Anthony Albanese, his government and party and Jews who for the past two years asked them to do more to stop...
A deep rift has emerged between Anthony Albanese, his government and party and Jews who for the past two years asked them to do more to stop...
A deep rift has emerged between Anthony Albanese, his government and party and Jews who for the past two years asked them to do more to stop...
Jews aren’t asking for laws that make it harder for people who hate them to shoot them; they want the government to do something about the hate.
Jews aren’t asking for laws that make it harder for people who hate them to shoot them; they want the government to do something about the hate.
Jews aren’t asking for laws that make it harder for people who hate them to shoot them; they want the government to do something about the hate.
Jews aren’t asking for laws that make it harder for people who hate them to shoot them; they want the government to do something about the hate.
A Hanukkah event in Melbourne provided a snap poll of Jewish sentiment after the Bondi massacre.
At a time when other states have started emulating Victoria, the government is abolishing its best-known public health institution.
Victoria’s former top bureaucrat did not need much time to identify where the public service she once led had lost its way.
For recently removed party leaders, nothing screams louder than the silence of your phone.
Sunday’s opening of the Metro Tunnel is a timely reminder that, despite the serious challenges Melbourne is facing, good things are happening in...
Julia Gillard says the first woman to do any important job in public life still carries an additional burden.
In an attempt to hold on to the throne, the opposition leader managed to infuriate, anger or irritate colleagues. Including those whose support helped...
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.
The Victorian government is divided on how to extend vicarious liability for historical child sex abuse to religious orders and other organisations.
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...
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...
Any politician attuned to the public mood should understand Melbourne has had a gutful, but our premier seems unable to even identify the problem.
As the parliament rose to applaud the speeches of Aboriginal leaders, opposition MPs stayed glued to their seats.
The premier has spent three days ribbon cutting the same project. Someone should remind her that governing and campaigning are two different things.
Having helped broker a deal to keep John Pesutto out of bankruptcy, Liberal leader Brad Battin should return him to his frontbench.
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...
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.
Albanese’s good people are not dills. They understand that Australia and particularly, its three big eastern seaboard cities, are growing at a rate...
A looming electoral cataclysm for Victorian Labor has been replaced by the likelihood of a fourth consecutive win. It is remarkable and disturbing.
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...
Any serious conversation about tax reform should consider how our broken state arrangements are feeding a debt binge.
Any serious conversation about tax reform should consider how our broken state arrangements are feeding a debt binge.
Any serious conversation about tax reform should consider how our broken state arrangements are feeding a debt binge.
Any serious conversation about tax reform should consider how our broken state arrangements are feeding a debt binge.
When the premier first announced her Two-Day Plan, it was not immediately clear what problem she was promising to solve.
The Victorian government’s work-from-home pledge is light on detail, but the politics are devilishly clever.
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...
In an almost world exclusive, Chip Le Grand imagines what it might be like to visit Jacinta Allan’s sprawling rural estate.
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...
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