The premier abandoned Daniel Andrews’ promise to build a second safe injecting room,despite her own faction pushing strongly for it.
Opposition to the state government’s plan to raze 44 towers is mounting,including from a former Labor deputy prime minister and a 97-year-old industry icon,architect Peter McIntyre.
Russia’s foreign ministry said the Australians were handed indefinite bans “in response to politically motivated sanctions against Russian individuals”.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews begins final day in job after announcing resignation.
Party members and MPs currently have a 50-50 say in deciding the Labor leader. But a proposed change to party rules would cut the membership’s voting rights.
Labor’s control of the crossbench is changing as progressives warn they won’t be taken for granted and those frozen out under Andrews welcome a new approach.
Victoria’s new tobacco licensing laws must have strict character tests,a dedicated task force and massive fines to avoid being a toothless tiger at stopping the state’s underground turf war,the industry has warned.
In her final report to parliament,outgoing Ombudsman Deborah Glass has described “a battle for my independence,with gender overtones”.
The former Victorian premier’s private office was extensively involved in responding to health-related media inquiries,prompting warnings about the centralisation of power.
Bureaucrats gave the government the green light to host the Games despite significant and unresolved concerns and a business case that overstated the benefits,the auditor-general has found.
Daniel Andrews’ former aides open a strategic advisory firm,while Barnaby Joyce sells out of the Canberra neighbourhood where he had a late-night encounter with a planter box.