Giant-slayer:How door-knocking and deals turned red Richmond Green

Giant-slayer:How door-knocking and deals turned red Richmond Green

Despite the Greens’ lofty predictions at last weekend’s election,it claimed only the inner-city seat of Richmond from Labor. What made this seat different?

  • byBianca Hall

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Greens claim the battleground seat of Richmond

Greens claim the battleground seat of Richmond

Victorian party leader Samantha Ratnam said the result was part of a “Greenslide” sweeping the state.

  • byBianca Hall
More than half Richmond voters have cast their ballot,as final countdown looms

More than half Richmond voters have cast their ballot,as final countdown looms

If the polls and pundits are right,Gabrielle de Vietri will be claiming victory on Saturday night as the first Greens MP for the key seat of Richmond.

  • byBianca Hall
‘Uninspired’:Focus group polling shows young voters are switched off

‘Uninspired’:Focus group polling shows young voters are switched off

Focus-group polling in the battleground seat of Richmond shows many young voters are “uninspired” about Saturday’s election,and not engaged in any real sense with the major parties’ policies.

  • byBianca Hall
‘It’s not easy being a socialist’:Door-knocking with Richmond candidate Roz Ward

‘It’s not easy being a socialist’:Door-knocking with Richmond candidate Roz Ward

Despite being a micro-party,the Victorian Socialists are campaigning with militant efficiency this state election.

  • byBianca Hall
It feels ‘a little bit hairy’ now,but the Greens want to make the Yarra swimmable

It feels ‘a little bit hairy’ now,but the Greens want to make the Yarra swimmable

The river has long been Melbourne’s dumping ground,but the Greens have backed a plan to make the Yarra swimmable once more.

  • byBianca Hall
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No teeth,scurvy diagnoses:Cost of living drives food bank pressures

No teeth,scurvy diagnoses:Cost of living drives food bank pressures

Away from the theatrics of the campaign trail,the most pressing issue for Victorians this election - the cost of living - is on stark display at lines at Melbourne food relief centres.

  • byBianca Hall andRachael Dexter
Feed frenzy:How your local candidate is all up in your socials

Feed frenzy:How your local candidate is all up in your socials

State political advertising in key seats is now less about the leader and more about the local candidate.

  • byBianca Hall,Clay Lucas andRachael Dexter
Liberal candidate preferences Labor over Greens in key seat before backflip

Liberal candidate preferences Labor over Greens in key seat before backflip

Liberal candidate Lucas Moon bucked the directive from central headquarters on Monday morning,handing out how-to-vote cards that directed preferences to Labor ahead of the Greens in the key seat of Richmond for several hours.

  • byBianca Hall
Top Liberals enraged over Guy’s plan to preference Greens ahead of Labor

Top Liberals enraged over Guy’s plan to preference Greens ahead of Labor

A senior member of the Victorian Liberals has derided the party’s preferences tactic as “Trumpian”.

  • byBianca Hall
Greens decry Labor’s ‘sexist’ attack advertisement in Richmond

Greens decry Labor’s ‘sexist’ attack advertisement in Richmond

Labor has launched an attack ad targeting candidate Gabrielle de Vietri for claiming almost $7000 for nanny services.

  • byBianca Hall