Public asset sales on the cards as Victoria moves to shore up budget
The Andrews government is preparing to off-load remaining public assets to help keep the budget in check after a year of big spending announcements.
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Josh Gordon
Josh Gordon is The Age's state political editor. After a brief period in the Sydney banking world and the federal bureaucracy, Josh spent six years working as The Age's economics correspondent at Parliament House in Canberra. After cutting himself adrift to travel the world, he was lured back to reporting early in 2007. Most recently he has worked as The Sunday Age's politcal editor, based in Canberra, and The Age's state economics correspondent in Melbourne.
National park could be jobs boon, say consultants
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Turnbull government in late bid to save St Kilda Road trees from Metro chop
About 100 trees lining St Kilda Road facing the chop to make way the Metro Rail project have been granted emergency heritage protection by the Turnbull government.
Victoria, the forgotten state on infrastructure
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Support growing for safe injecting room in Melbourne
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Manufacturing proves the political issue that unites Australians
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Hazelwood owners facing unprecedented $743 million rehab bill
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$220 a year more for electricity
Victorian households are being buffeted by something of a perfect storm when it comes to power bills.
EPA to be overhauled in move to crack down on polluters
Businesses will be forced to comply with a new "general duty" to prevent pollution under a sweeping overhaul of Victoria's environmental watchdog.
Deal set to keep Alcoa plant operating
Alcoa's Portland's aluminium smelter has all but struck a generous new electricity supply deal with AGL, ensuring the troubled plant is likely to stay open.
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