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Regulation
Cutting Victoria’s red tape could save up to $1.6 billion a year
An internal state government review found Victoria has the second-highest number of business licences and permits in the nation.
- by Kieran Rooney
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Premier defends Victoria’s CFMEU inquiry and says investigator will have access to senior MPs
Jacinta Allan has vowed the government-appointed investigator will be able to speak to ministers – including herself – about claims against the CFMEU.
- by Broede Carmody
‘You dill!’: The words too potty-mouthed for parliament. And the ones that aren’t
Inside the walls of the Victorian parliament, there are strict rules on what politicians can wear and what they can say. So much so that there’s even a list of vocabulary deemed “unparliamentary”.
- by Broede Carmody
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Building Bad
Setka’s secret sisterhood: Labor women in covert support of CFMEU boss revealed
Leaked text messages reveal a network of Labor-linked women rallied around the fallen union leader over criminal harassment charges and his criticism of Rosie Batty’s domestic violence advocacy work.
- by Nick McKenzie, Ben Schneiders and David Marin-Guzman
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Jacinta Allan
Labor primary vote slumps under Premier Jacinta Allan
Support for the government has eroded to its lowest level in years, as disgruntled voters swing behind the Coalition and minor parties in the latest Resolve Political Monitor.
- by Annika Smethurst
Indigenous justice commission to probe worksite allegations amid CFMEU fallout
Premier Jacinta Allan has also confirmed that the Victorian Labor Party had begun formal processes to eject the CFMEU’s construction division from its ranks.
- by Broede Carmody and Kieran Rooney
Conservative Liberals will challenge for top Victorian party roles
Former MP Graham Watt, who refused to stand for family violence campaigner Rosie Batty when she addressed parliament, is aiming to be party president.
- by Annika Smethurst
Jacinta Allan has some time to delay airport rail, but not for long
Why has a popular project to connect Melbourne to the airport by rail and invest in the western suburbs become a political quagmire?
- by Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Possum poo, no showers after games: A long-promised Fitzroy footy fix-up faces a downgrade
The state government allocated $6.5 million to improve the facilities at the historic Brunswick Street Oval in 2018 and another $6.3 million a few years later. But the council says it’s still over budget and is now seeking a new design.
- by Kieran Rooney
Opinion
Crime
Compromise will be key for Allan to manage youth crime
Competing priorities within the Victorian government could see the push for stronger punishments on youth crime at loggerheads with ambitions for reform.
- by Annika Smethurst
‘Everything is on the table’: Premier to meet police, courts on youth crime
Premier Jacinta Allan will sit down with stakeholders next week after conceding there was “more to do” on repeat young offenders.
- by Rachel Eddie, Kieran Rooney and Annika Smethurst