Victoria is the last jurisdiction in the country with a system that allows micro-parties to harvest preferences to elect MPs who have,at times,polled less than 1 per cent.
Moira Deeming used her first speech to parliament to slam left-wing school curriculums,decry the decriminalisation of sex work and take aim at the state government’s approach to gender-diverse young people.
Labor’s primary vote has increased by 4 percentage points to 41,up from 37 per cent at the state election just three months ago.
Warwick Gately says a “winner takes all” attitude towards election campaigns in Victoria could be turning people off voting.
The Sunday Age calculated donations listed in annual returns from Labor,the Liberals,Nationals,and the Greens over the last four years,as well as donations made since July.
The former opposition leader has launched a stinging attack on senior Liberals,calling on the ‘juvenile’ state president to resign for his post-election report.
State Liberal Party president Greg Mirabella has presented his report on the party’s heavy loss in the Victorian election,saying the Liberals ‘gave voters nothing to vote for’.
When Victoria went to the polls last November,Michelle Young stayed at home. She was part of a cohort that made the election our lowest for voter turnout rate since 1943.
The Andrews government is considering an expansion of the State Electricity Commission that could allow Victorians to buy their power direct from the government for the first time in more than two decades.
Labor’s single most popular policy was a vague commitment to reinvent the SEC,the old publicly-owned power commission. Why was it such a political winner?
Liberal candidate Wayne Farnham has comfortably won the Victorian state seat of Narracan in a supplementary election.