A hike in the levy to deter motorists from Melbourne’s CBD and inner suburbs has been lashed by a peak lobby group as ineffective.
John Pesutto’s decision to allow remote voting in Friday’s leadership spill has put him – and his opponents – in the line of fire.
It now appears inevitable that John Pesutto will lose his position. Liberals are already speaking of his time in office in the past tense.
The party room meeting to decide Pesutto’s fate comes after his last-ditch effort on Sunday to save his job by agreeing to readmit exiled MP and defamation foe Moira Deeming.
Lawyers and the plumbing industry have called for an inquiry into insurance companies denying plumbing compensation after the issue was raised in a damning report into the Victorian Building Authority.
Many in the Victorian Liberal Party want John Pesutto to go. If only they could decide who they want to replace him.
The opposition leader says Victorians know him “as a fighter” and that he would be willing to apologise to Moira Deeming in person.
John Pesutto has been given 24 hours to stand down or face a leadership challenge after the narrow vote on allowing Moira Deeming back into the party room cost him support from key backers.
The premier has used her first major cabinet reshuffle to elevate housing as a policy priority before the next state election and cement the key role of women in her frontbench.
State Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes is to be sworn in as treasurer on Thursday as she takes on one of the most difficult challenges in politics.
A Victorian government report in response to this masthead’s Building Bad investigation says builders should be contractually required to stamp out criminal behaviour.