Health Infrastructure Minister Melissa Horne has broken ranks with the premier,seeking assurances over “extremely serious allegations” that Allan only hours earlier repeatedly dismissed as baseless.
A truck fitted with digital billboards displaying political slogans and advertisements for a South Melbourne brothel has been taken off the streets by Victoria Police.
A former executive director of the Victorian Health Building Authority has blown the whistle on government intervention on a major hospital redevelopment.
Backing for Pauline Hanson is in decline across Victoria,but Jacinta Allan’s popularity remains in the doldrums.
Victoria’s upper house is likely to be vastly different after November’s election,as the Allan government moves to abolish the controversial “preference-whispering” system.
As regional rail services gradually resumed on Thursday afternoon,Premier Jacinta Allan said the chaos was completely unacceptable and demanded change.
Potholes are an emblem of regional anger now simmering at a level we haven’t seen in Victoria since the end of the Kennett government.
A high-profile expert’s work has been used as part of a campaign attacking allegations of a $15 billion cost for CFMEU Big Build misconduct. But he says he was never asked to test the figure.
Labor figures say that if Jacinta Allan’s government does not establish a royal commission,the next one will,upping the pressure on the premier after a spate of new revelations.
If the goal is another report,another royal commission will deliver one. If the goal is changing behaviour on worksites,changing the culture is the answer.