Transgender rights activists demonstrate outside the Victorian parliament in 2022.

Police invoke powers to unmask disruptors as women’s rights rally returns to scene of neo-Nazi stunt

Tough search-and-arrest powers will be in force on Saturday around state parliament,where trans-rights activists plan to disrupt a women’s rights rally which last year was crashed by right-wing extremists.

  • Chip Le Grand

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Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns faces a battle in his seat of Macnamara.

Just not kosher. The diabolical dilemma facing Jewish voters in Macnamara

This electoral conundrum is causing more anxiety for Jewish voters than a Woody Allen screenplay.

  • Chip Le Grand
Victoria’s local public health units opened during the pandemic.

‘People are going to die’:Funding doubt over state’s frontline public health defence

The Victorian government refuses to guarantee the future of local public health units that were crucial to the state’s pandemic fight,igniting concerns about more budget cuts to an already stretched health service.

  • Chip Le Grand,Henrietta Cook andBroede Carmody
Peter Dutton and his son,Harry.

Harry Dutton’s big win a sobering lesson for Victorian Liberals who think they might do a Bradbury

There is little evidence that a party which has malingered in opposition for all but four years this century is ready to start making a compelling case for change.

  • Chip Le Grand
The Melbourne Market in Epping.

Fruit-and-veg market stand-off heads to court as sellers face eviction

Wholesale fruit and vegetable sellers at the Epping market have been given 30 days to sign up to new lease agreements that have significantly higher rents.

  • Chip Le Grand
Anthony Albanese

He’s careful,stable – even prosaic. But Albanese may just have nailed the mood

The prime minister is on a personal mission to do what no Labor leader has done this century – convince voters his party can be trusted to govern long-term.

  • Chip Le Grand
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Premier Jacinta Allan at the North East Link construction site in May last year.

The leader most likely to lose their job after the federal election? Jacinta Allan

There will be no move against Allan while the campaign is on but if Labor does as badly in Victoria as the polls suggest,senior party figures have made it clear whom they will blame.

  • Chip Le Grand
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan.

Jacinta Allan’s sinking popularity inflicts brand damage on Albanese’s election hopes

An exclusive survey shows support for the Victorian Labor Party has collapsed to crisis levels – and it will have a huge influence on the federal political contest.

  • Chip Le Grand andPaul Sakkal
SRL Minister Harriet Shing,Premier Jacinta Allan,and Transport Infrastructure Minister Gabrielle Williams on Tuesday.

Cutting Sunshine hub would kill Airport Rail,says Allan

The Victorian premier responded to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s announcement that he would pull federal funding from the SRL East and Sunshine rail hub if elected.

  • Rachel Eddie,Kieran Rooney andChip Le Grand
A Suburban Rail Loop construction site in Clayton.

Dutton pledges to axe $2.2 billion from Suburban Rail Loop ‘hoax’

The federal opposition leader will announce on Tuesday that,if elected,he will withdraw federal funding for the rail loop,branding the project a cruel hoax.

  • Chip Le Grand,Kieran Rooney andPaul Sakkal