Pressure is mounting on Premier Daniel Andrews to overhaul politicians' generous entitlements after Labor Speaker Telmo Languiller admitted claiming almost $40,000 to live in Queenscliff failed "community expectations".
A safe injecting room for heroin users should be trialled in Richmond to help curb drug deaths, the departing head of the Police Association has said.
Speaker Telmo Languiller has swiftly moved to head off an expense scandal after claiming almost $40,000 to live away from his electorate in Queenscliff, promising to repay the money in full.
Victorian speaker Telmo Languiller has been charging taxpayers almost $40,000 a year to live in the posh sea-side town of Queenscliff - at least 80 kilometres from the western suburbs electorate he represents.
Taxpayers will act as the guarantor on new social housing projects under a $1 billion Andrews government policy aimed at boosting affordable homes for vulnerable people.
The Andrews government has left the door open on setting up safe injecting rooms after it backed the parliament to investigate how it would work.
Supervised drug use in a heroin hot spot will be a key political issue in the battle between Labor and the Greens for Melbourne's inner city, after the Premier rejected advice to trial safe injecting rooms.
The most controversial figure in the Victorian Liberal Party, Marcus Bastiaan, had his Sydney audience enthralled as he thundered about the need for change.
Two leading figures in Victoria's political and business establishment, Hugh Morgan and Michael Kroger, are locked in a dispute in which $500,000 in donations have been withheld from the Liberals' state branch and claims of serious governance failings made.
An aspiring Liberal politician has slammed Opposition Leader Matthew Guy for backing a ban on fracking, saying the party was abandoning its values and playing into the hands of One Nation.
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