This Month
Labor insider Sabina Husic snapped up by TikTok
The ByteDance-owned video app needs friends in Canberra, turning to Sabina Husic in a new lobbying role.
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- Mark Di Stefano
King’s Birthday honours come to political chums at remarkable speed
Daniel Andrews locked down Melbourne for longer than it took to approve his AC honours.
- Hannah Wootton
‘An insult’: Andrews reignites fight over plaudits for politicians
There are calls for former Victorian leader Daniel Andrews to be stripped of the nation’s top honour.
- Andrew Tillett and Gus McCubbing
May
Governments ‘should report cost blowouts just like companies do’
State governments should be held to the same reporting standards as ASX-listed companies when it comes to major projects, Marion Terrill says.
- Gus McCubbing
‘I’m disgusted’: premier blasts pro-Palestine activists
Pro-Palestine protesters have stormed a Labor state conference in Melbourne amid heightened tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.
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- Callum Godde
- Exclusive
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Go8 Universities agree to combat racism, uphold free speech
Australia’s oldest and most prestigious universities have set out five principles, as Deakin University prepares for a showdown with campus protesters.
- Patrick Durkin and Julie Hare
Schools sweat on election funding promises as Victorian debt rises
Melbourne’s Hampton Primary School fears the Victorian government won’t follow through on a promise made on eve of the 2022 election.
- Gus McCubbing
April
‘What Paula wants, Paula gets’: Lindsay Fox’s $152m birthday surprise
A high-profile birthday singalong broke out on billionaire Lindsay Fox’s birthday at the official opening of new $152 million Paula Fox Melanoma and Cancer Centre in Melbourne on Friday.
- Patrick Durkin
Mourners pay tribute to Bondi victims as shopping centre reopens
People have gathered at Westfield Bondi Junction in the eastern suburbs to pay tribute to the six people murdered last weekend. How the day unfolded.
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- Gus McCubbing and Andrew Hobbs
Russia bans Daniel Andrews and 234 other Aussies
The former Victorian premier is one of the most high-profile of the MPs across the political divide who have been banned from Russia.
D’Ambrosio gas claim debunked after outburst against Labor’s King
In another Victorian clash over gas with the Albanese government, Lily D’Ambrosio accused Madeleine King of behaving like “a Coalition minister”.
- Jacob Greber and Gus McCubbing
March
Break or breakthrough: the red flags at Victoria’s VC fund
Breakthrough Victoria was formed after its now-chairman, John Brumby, called for the establishment of such a fund.
- Myriam Robin
‘Legacy of fear’: government watchdog fires parting shot at Andrews
Victoria’s outgoing ombudsman Deborah Glass has warned about the ‘dangerous impact of creeping ‘politicisation’ on the state’s public service.
- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- Energy security
The high-profile team for Labor’s electricity commission is gone
It counted some of the country’s sharpest minds on energy. And now the Victorian State Electricity Commission’s six-person expert panel has officially wound up.
- Samantha Hutchinson and Patrick Durkin
Allan, Andrews ‘overstated’ Commonwealth Games blowout by $2b
Victoria’s auditor-general says Labor’s Commonwealth Games debacle cost taxpayers $589 million for “no discernible benefit”.
- Gus McCubbing
No plans to wind up embattled $2b VC fund: Pallas
Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas has hit back at calls to wind up the state’s venture capital fund, saying there isn’t enough private money to support start-ups.
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- Gus McCubbing
What Daniel Andrews’ political machine did next
Now that the dream is over, some of his most powerful operatives are ready to cash in.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
- Exclusive
- Venture capital
Board exodus: Vic government start-up fund spent $22m to invest $74m
Three directors of the state government-funded $2 billion Breakthrough Victoria venture fund are quitting amid calls for the fund to be wound up.
- Patrick Durkin
Crime and cost of living will decide the battle for Dunkley
Voters in the crucial Dunkley byelection have two things on their mind – crime and the cost of living.
- Gus McCubbing
February
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Victoria’s EV levy refunds come with an indemnity clause
In a country known as “a Third World dumping ground” for automotive technology, Victoria tried to slug conscientious citizens to plug a fiscal crisis.
- Myriam Robin
