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Farrah Tomazin is The Sunday Age's state political editor. Farrah joined the paper in 2000, reporting on general news, courts and crime, local government and state politics. She was The Age's state political correspondent ahead the 2006 Victorian election, and later spent three years as education editor before becoming a feature writer on Victorian affairs. She returned to the state rounds press gallery for The Sunday Age in 2011.
Merry Christmas Premier Daniel Andrews – it will be a busy new year
Farrah Tomazin Merry Christmas, Premier. You've made it through the year, but you'll have your work cut out for you in the next one.
Can Infrastructure Victoria protect Melbourne's liveable city status from political bickering and spin?
Farrah Tomazin When voters return to the polls for the next Victorian election, in 2018, there's every chance it could be fought on a familiar battleground: the East West Link.
Port of Melbourne sale is going adrift
Farrah Tomazin When it comes to funding infrastructure, the state's interests sometimes are not the top priority.
Victoria's younger, more gender-diverse Nationals have come a long way
Farrah Tomazin The Nationals are now starting to look the more progressive partner in the Coalition.
Malcolm Turnbull's determination to get things done is a plus for Victoria
Farrah Tomazin The change of prime minister might end up being very good news for Victoria.
Promise-keeping Premier Andrews drags voters into the 21st century
Farrah Tomazin Premier Daniel Andrews has stuck to his guns, and his commitments.
Dan Andrews walks a careful line in China visit
Farrah Tomazin Meet Daniel Andrews, the premier salesman trying to spruik Victoria on the world stage.
Labor must deliver on promised overhaul of Victoria's integrity regime
Farrah Tomazin Victoria's integrity system is a shambles. It needs fixing, Premier.
Alleged fraud mars Liberals' message of offering sound financial management
Farrah Tomazin Liberals have been found wanting for recycling people in senior roles without the necessary rigour.
Matthew Guy distancing himself from Tony Abbott, with good reason
Farrah Tomazin The Victorian Liberal leader realises the Prime Minister's negativity is damaging.
Daniel Andrews displays poor judgment in responses to scandals
Farrah Tomazin Seven months into Premier's first term, cracks have already started to appear.
Coalition in Victoria: Matthew Guy tacking hard into winds of change
Farrah Tomazin Six months into his leadership, Matthew Guy is casting himself as a modern-day Liberal with a social conscience.
Victorian parliamentary inquiry into end-of-life choices a sign of progress
Farrah Tomazin Broad support will let community have a say on care and laws for people to make informed decisions about life and death.
The budget Pallas
Farrah Tomazin Tim Pallas' first state budget was very much like the Treasurer himself: measured, strategic, no frills.
East West Link battle justifies need for non-partisan body on infrastructure
Farrah Tomazin The battle over the East West Link validates the need for a neutral body to take the politics out of infrastructure planning.
Some are more equal than others in Victoria's same-sex adoption debate
Farrah Tomazin When gay adoption was proposed by the Victorian Law Reform Commission a decade ago, the outcry was as offensive as it was predictable.
Michael Kroger has mettle to enforce changes for Liberals
Farrah Tomazin Warhorse Michael Kroger is a polarising figure, but a leaked speech shows he has diagnosed the Liberals' ills and has remedies for them.
Andrews just can't walk on by on education
Farrah Tomazin Labor's education pledges before last year's election were ambitious, but its policies are already under fire from public school advocates.
Finding common ground the challenge for Andrews Government
Farrah Tomazin The Andrews Government is learning exactly how difficult it is to negotiate its way through a parliament filled with more micro-parties, more Greens and more opposition firepower than Labor would...
Leader Peter Ryan departs at watershed moment for Nationals
Farrah Tomazin When Peter Ryan announced he was quitting politics this month, it marked the end of an era for the former Victorian Nationals leader, and a turning point for his 100-year old party.
