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Chip Le Grand

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The iron law of aromatics that explains why politicians are sweating on Victoria

The iron law of aromatics that explains why politicians are sweating on Victoria

Victorian voters could decide the federal election. First, they must decide between a party with a whiff about it and a leader only a mother could...

28.03.2025 10

The Age

Chip Le Grand

Bloated and out of control, Victoria’s spending puts thousands of jobs on the line

Bloated and out of control, Victoria’s spending puts thousands of jobs on the line

Can anyone explain what Development Victoria does differently to Developer Victoria, Economic Growth Victoria, Engage Victoria, Launch Victoria and...

26.03.2025 20

The Age

Chip Le Grand

On this occasion, Victorian voters have little cause for complaint

On this occasion, Victorian voters have little cause for complaint

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has tipped $14.45 billion in additional funding into a state that will be crucial to the election outcome.

25.03.2025 9

The Age

Chip Le Grand

In spruiking Operation Hawk, the premier made a goose of the government

In spruiking Operation Hawk, the premier made a goose of the government

This episode reflects an extraordinary absence of curiosity within government about what Victoria Police have been doing since the first Building Bad...

18.03.2025 20

The Age

Chip Le Grand

Allan’s cartoonishly titled bail bill reveals the depths of bad government

Allan’s cartoonishly titled bail bill reveals the depths of bad government

These changes to the law have been cobbled together with reckless haste.

12.03.2025 5

The Age

Chip Le Grand

This New York train station was the world’s most expensive. Sunshine may have it beat

The architecturally splendid Oculus, at New York’s rebuilt World Trade Centre, cost $US4 billion to build. Sunshine station could give the record a...

05.03.2025 6

The Age

Chip Le Grand

How a ham and cheese toastie could upend the state’s planning laws

The Victorian government insists its changes to planning laws won’t change heritage overlays. This is partly true. It’s also disingenuous.

26.02.2025 10

The Age

Chip Le Grand

Some people should never dance. This Victorian pair are two of them

We all know one. Perhaps you have one in your family. These are people for whom backbeats don’t readily apply.

19.02.2025 5

The Age

Chip Le Grand

The Allan-Albanese rail stand-off is about politics, not transport projects

The prime minister is in no hurry to drop billions on the Suburban Rail Loop, an undertaking so gargantuan that most of us will be dead before it’s...

12.02.2025 6

The Age

Chip Le Grand

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.

09.02.2025 10

The Age

Chip Le Grand

Regardless of the result in Werribee, Allan has already heard the message

The premier’s “do more” promise signals a change already under way in her leadership and government’s priorities.

08.02.2025 10

The Age

Chip Le Grand

Jacinta Allan was getting tough on crime. Then her review of bail laws went missing

There is a point where a government review becomes so broad, it ceases to be about anything at all. As it turns out, this one never was.

05.02.2025 20

The Age

Chip Le Grand

Battin’s Liberals are soaring in the polls. They might just be the dog that caught the car

Like long-term inmates plotting another jailhouse hit, the Victorian Liberals have been more focused on the power balance within H-Block than gaining...

29.01.2025 5

The Age

Chip Le Grand

Pro-Palestine protests are intimidating Jews. Moving them doesn’t harm anyone

If there were any doubts about the nature of the menace confronting Australian Jews, it has been made alarming clear by the antisemitic attacks in...

22.01.2025 9

The Age

Chip Le Grand

Disunity is not death in the Liberal party. It is a lifestyle choice

It is a long time since normal rules applied to the Victorian Liberal Party. Anyone with a smidge of common sense and knowledge of political...

20.12.2024 20

The Age

Chip Le Grand

Pallas needed a bigger bucket to douse Victoria’s spending

On the day he quit politics, Tim Pallas described himself as a humble staffer who maybe got ahead of himself. It is a self-deprecating line Pallas...

16.12.2024 10

The Age

Chip Le Grand

No bigger play behind Groth’s massive serve

In the hours before Sam Groth called John Pesutto to say he was no longer willing to serve as a shadow minister under his leadership, he was at the...

14.12.2024 5

The Age

Chip Le Grand

The lifeline that let John Pesutto survive. For now

These are the agonisingly fine judgments on which political careers survive or perish. Federal Court judge David O’Callaghan said he gave “anxious...

12.12.2024 10

The Age

Chip Le Grand

I wrote a book and no one read it. It’s time to face up to what we have lost

Two years ago, I wrote a book about Melbourne’s pandemic experience. Few people bought it and fewer still read it. I suspect that among the copies...

30.10.2024 5

The Age

Chip Le Grand

This attempt to clarify boxing’s gender row was a shambles. It also told us everything

Within Paris’s Salon Des Miroirs, a suitably chosen venue for a sport much in need of self-reflection, a Greek gynaecologist and obstetrician who...

06.08.2024 1

WA Today

Chip Le Grand

This attempt to clarify boxing’s gender row was a shambles. It also told us everything

Within Paris’s Salon Des Miroirs, a suitably chosen venue for a sport much in need of self-reflection, a Greek gynaecologist and obstetrician who...

06.08.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Chip Le Grand

This attempt to clarify boxing’s gender row was a shambles. It also told us everything

Within Paris’s Salon Des Miroirs, a suitably chosen venue for a sport much in need of self-reflection, a Greek gynaecologist and obstetrician who...

06.08.2024 3

The Age

Chip Le Grand

This attempt to clarify boxing’s gender row was a shambles. It also told us everything

Within Paris’s Salon Des Miroirs, a suitably chosen venue for a sport much in need of self-reflection, a Greek gynaecologist and obstetrician who...

06.08.2024 30

Brisbane Times

Chip Le Grand

Even if you accept that gender is fluid, the rules of sport shouldn’t be

The maelstrom that has engulfed Algerian boxer Imane Khelif in Paris is a wretched thing. It is humiliating for Khelif, who has always identified as...

01.08.2024 1

WA Today

Chip Le Grand

Even if you accept that gender is fluid, the rules of sport shouldn’t be

The maelstrom that has engulfed Algerian boxer Imane Khelif in Paris is a wretched thing. It is humiliating for Khelif, who has always identified as...

01.08.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Chip Le Grand

Even if you accept that gender is fluid, the rules of sport shouldn’t be

The maelstrom that has engulfed Algerian boxer Imane Khelif in Paris is a wretched thing. It is humiliating for Khelif, who has always identified as...

01.08.2024 1

The Age

Chip Le Grand

Even if you accept that gender is fluid, the rules of sport shouldn’t be

The maelstrom that has engulfed Algerian boxer Imane Khelif in Paris is a wretched thing. It is humiliating for Khelif, who has always identified as...

01.08.2024 2

Brisbane Times

Chip Le Grand

The swimmer and her dodgy Quarter Pounder: Inside the latest Chinese doping scandal

The revelation that Tang Muhan, a member of China’s world-beating women’s 4X200m relay team, secretly tested positive to a banned steroid nearly...

31.07.2024 1

WA Today

Chip Le Grand

The swimmer and her dodgy Quarter Pounder: Inside the latest Chinese doping scandal

The revelation that Tang Muhan, a member of China’s world-beating women’s 4X200m relay team, secretly tested positive to a banned steroid nearly...

31.07.2024 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Chip Le Grand

The swimmer and her dodgy Quarter Pounder: Inside the latest Chinese doping scandal

The revelation that Tang Muhan, a member of China’s world-beating women’s 4X200m relay team, secretly tested positive to a banned steroid nearly...

31.07.2024 5

The Age

Chip Le Grand

The swimmer and her dodgy Quarter Pounder: Inside the latest Chinese doping scandal

The revelation that Tang Muhan, a member of China’s world-beating women’s 4X200m relay team, secretly tested positive to a banned steroid nearly...

31.07.2024 1

Brisbane Times

Chip Le Grand