Politics
Victoria
Ellen Sandell the stability choice for ambitious Victorian Greens MPs
Melbourne MP Ellen Sandell is the new leader of the state Greens after Samantha Ratnam stepped down to contest the federal seat of Wills.
- by Broede Carmody and Annika Smethurst
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Drug reform
Jacinta Allan shows she’s not Andrews but risks her party’s wrath
The premier abandoned Daniel Andrews’ promise to build a second safe injecting room, despite her own faction pushing strongly for it.
- by Kieran Rooney
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Drug reform
Melbourne will not get a second injecting room while Allan is premier
Premier Jacinta Allan has drawn a line under the debate about a second injecting room in Melbourne by going against an expert report to say it will never be built.
- by Rachel Eddie, Kieran Rooney and Cara Waters
Residents vow to fight government push to quash public housing commission class action
Awil Hussein and his two daughters call the North Melbourne public housing towers home and say their community will be destroyed if a plan to demolish them is allowed to go ahead.
- by Clay Lucas
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Victorian budget
Dozens of school upgrades could miss out in budget ‘bloodbath’
Labor committed $850 million to upgrade at least 89 schools in 2022, but more than half failed to secure funding to put shovels in the ground in last year’s state budget.
- by Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
Merrick Watts’ simple rule during Eltham pub fights: ‘Grab the till and run’
Once Eltham was an “amazing dichotomy between ruthless bogans and the arts”. Nowadays, the leafy suburb is fighting not to look like everywhere else.
- by Clay Lucas
Call to embed police in shopping centres to tackle knife crime
Victoria’s most senior federal frontbencher says police officers should be embedded in Melbourne’s big shopping centres.
- by Staff writers
Home builder’s collapse blows hole in state insurer’s finances
Taxpayers face having to pay for higher insurance premiums on major projects after the Porter Davis collapse hit the state insurance agency’s budget.
- by Kieran Rooney
Opinion
Greens
How Liberal mistakes are driving the Greens and Nationals’ succession plans
A rare reprieve from leadership chatter among Labor and the Liberals has turned the spotlight to other players among the Victorian Parliament.
- by Annika Smethurst
‘Light the way’: The SEC says it will be bold in getting more energy projects built
Victorian Labor’s big election promise has had a shaky start, but it now says it will start investing in projects the market is still unsure about.
- by Kieran Rooney