It is difficult to decide which is more worrying – Victoria’s precarious economic position or the government desperately trying to spin a tale of success.
Melbourne MP Ellen Sandell is the new leader of the state Greens after Samantha Ratnam stepped down to contest the federal seat of Wills.
The Afghan-born former refugee had only just arrived in Australia when he was told the man in a suit at his mosque was a candidate for the Liberals and they were against immigrants. A decade on,he wants to be the party’s first Muslim MP in federal parliament.
Labor committed $850 million to upgrade at least 89 schools in 2022,but more than half failed to secure funding to put shovels in the ground in last year’s state budget.
A rare reprieve from leadership chatter among Labor and the Liberals has turned the spotlight to other players among the Victorian Parliament.
The Department of Treasury and Finance asked Treasurer Tim Pallas for extra money to cover the interest payments on the state’s debt portfolio,weeks before last year’s budget.
She will be the first Victorian state Liberal MP to give birth while in office since the 1990s.
As a resident and the mother of a toddler,I have been concerned,like many others,about the lack of straight answers on the contamination of Melbourne playgrounds.
The Allan government has come under fire over the mulch issue,with the opposition demanding a statewide audit of asbestos on public land.
The next Yarra Trams operator may provide passengers with down-to-the-metre tracking.
Amelia Hamer is a female Millennial finance professional who rents – the very demographic that helped unseat former federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the inner-Melbourne seat of Kooyong. Now,the 31-year-old from a prominent political dynasty has been tasked with winning it back.