Politics
Victoria
Uber Air plan raises alarm on safety, noise, planning risks
Uber Air, the ride-share company’s proposed chopper flight service over Melbourne, will create major issues that governments will need to grapple with, a senior bureaucrat in the federal Department of Transport has said.
- by Clay Lucas
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The Faceless Man
Power vacuum: Can the Labor Party really clean up its factional mess?
Daniel Andrews is emerging as a massive winner from the fall of Adem Somyurek. But for his party the landscape ahead is much less certain.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Labor in turmoil
Fallout: the Somyurek scandal
Since an investigation into branch stacking in a Victorian Labor faction, MP Adem Somyurek was sacked and two Labor MPs have resigned.
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'Hearing was believing': a note from Nick McKenzie on the Faceless Man investigation
The tapes of Adem Somyurek’s political misdeeds provided undeniable evidence of the rot in Labor politics infecting Spring Street and Canberra. Having no doubt it was in the public interest to report on this, we got to work.
- by Nick McKenzie
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State Parliament
Calls for corruption probe into union job for MP's son
Opposition emergency services spokesman Nick Wakeling wrote to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission on Thursday night calling for an investigation.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey, Noel Towell and Nick McKenzie
Roads
West Gate footbridges used by hundreds gone, no replacements in sight
Two footbridges over the West Gate Freeway used by more than 1000 people each week were demolished as part of the troubled West Gate Tunnel and won't be replaced for months due to a construction blunder.
- by Clay Lucas
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State Parliament
Three fresh faces for cabinet as Andrews shuffles his depleted pack
Labor MP Shaun Leane has stepped down as president of Victoria's upper house amid a cabinet reshuffle after a branch-stacking scandal claimed three ministers' scalps.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
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State Parliament
Son of independent MP who backed CFA revamp bill got fireys union job
As the United Firefighters Union and the government lobbied state upper house crossbench MPs to pass the contentious legislation, the son of Animal Justice Party MP Andy Meddick was give a two-week paid placement at the UFU.
- by Nick McKenzie and Sumeyya Ilanbey
The Faceless Man
IBAC launches investigation into Labor branch-stacking scandal
Anti-corruption watchdog launches 'Operation Fortescue' as the race begins to fill now-vacant ministerial positions after the ALP branch stacking scandal.
- by Noel Towell
Labor in turmoil
Bracks and Macklin to tackle problematic Victorian branch of ALP
Former Premier Steve Bracks has been appointed as an administrator, alongside former Labor minister Jenny Macklin, after Labor’s federal authority seized control of the Victorian branch due to the Adem Somyurek scandal. Vision: ABC
Wage scandal
Wage theft to become a crime as Victoria's Parliament passes new laws
Wage theft will become a crime in Victoria after the state’s upper house, in an Australian first, passed laws making the deliberate underpayment of wages a criminal offence.
- by Ben Schneiders and Nick Bonyhady