Before the 2014 election,fiscal surgeon Bob Officer signed off on Labor’s election costings. Today he’s less optimistic about the state’s balance sheet.
During the pandemic,Daniel Andrews was a national force to be reckoned with. In Victoria,he drove the conservatives to such despair he leaves a Labor Party that seems likely to remain in power for the foreseeable future.
Impressive women including a former prosecutor and an oncologist are being urged to run against Neil Angus in the race for outgoing Liberal MP Matt Bach’s seat.
Jeff Kennett says Daniel Andrews’ approach to state finances is not sustainable and there will come a day of reckoning – though he admits Andrews has picked the public mood.
Premiers and governments that feel impervious to opposition are more likely to overreach. For disturbing evidence of this,look no further than the latest IBAC report and Daniel Andrews’ contemptuous reaction to it.
It was a messy departure that only got messier in the months that followed. On Saturday,Alastair Clarkson will coach against Hawthorn for the first time in a match that,to some,has a little more than four points riding on it.
Anthony Albanese has ramped up pressure on Peter Dutton to declare the Liberals’ position on the Voice as conservatives express their misgivings.
Sports minister Anika Wells and shadow minister Anne Ruston got the razzle-dazzle World Cup treatment from the Qatari government then failed to declare the largesse.
Sculptor Peter Corlett has offered to come out of retirement to immortalise the Victorian premier for his 3000-day milestone,preferably in his iconic “fists in the air” pose.
A group of senior Liberal MPs has been assigned with repairing the party’s relationship with Chinese Australians,which will be put to the test in the Aston byelection.
Former Hawthorn superstar Cyril Rioli and his wife Shannyn have joined the contingent of First Nations players and partners who have made submissions to the AFL inquiry into alleged racism.