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Same-sex adoption vote shows how far Nats have come
The Nationals are now starting to look the more progressive partner in the Coalition.
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.
The Nationals are now starting to look the more progressive partner in the Coalition.
The change of prime minister might end up being very good news for Victoria.
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 have liked for its first term.
If there is one lesson to heed from Tony Abbott's ongoing woes, it is that voters have little tolerance for leaders who say one thing and do the opposite.
Victoria's students need more than upgrades of buildings to get the best education.
One could be forgiven for losing track of the number of times Labor has flip-flopped on the East West Link.
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