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Labor MPs jockey for position on election tickets as party braces for losses
By Rachel Eddie
Labor will not announce its candidates for the upper house until a month before the election, as poor polling has the party prepared for major electoral losses.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-01/victoria-labor-upper-house-ticket-mp/107215764
#StateandTerritoryParliament #StateandTerritoryElections #RachelEddie
Plans to expand police search powers to combat knife crime in Victoria
By Rachel Eddie and Keira Proust
Victorian Labor has promised to expand police search powers to combat knife crime in the state, despite warnings it will not reduce violent offending.
#Crime #StateandTerritoryGovernment #RachelEddie #KeiraProust
No smooth ride for Labor to a fourth term in Victoria
By Rachel Eddie
One Nation leader Warren Pickering's story of redemption took Victorian politics into new territory this week.
Breaking: Moira Deeming to run as Family First candidate in Victorian election
By Rachel Eddie
Former Liberal MP Moira Deeming will contest the November election with Family First, having been cast out of her former party in July.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/moira-deeming-joins-family-first-party/107136754
Body for 'frank, evidence-based' advice to Victorian government ditched
By Rachel Eddie
Independent advice to help the Victorian government prioritise spending on infrastructure will be axed under the latest pivot from Premier Ben Carroll.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/government-to-shut-down-infrastructure-victoria/107088980
#Infrastructure #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryParliament #RachelEddie
Proposed cuts to SRL not counted towards total cost
By Rachel Eddie and Richard Willingham
The Victorian Auditor-General's Office reveals proposed cuts to the Suburban Rail Loop never counted towards the $34.5 billion project's cost, denting Premier Ben Carroll's claim that he can slash the price tag.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-27/suburban-rail-loop-victoria-cost-cuts-questioned/107080970
#GovernmentFunding #PublicTransport #StateandTerritoryGovernment #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #RachelEddie #RichardWillingham
Breaking: Fares secretly hiked to fund Suburban Rail Loop, Auditor-General finds
By Rachel Eddie
The Victorian Auditor-General's Office has found the state government never revealed a new levy on public transport fares from the start of 2025.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/victorian-auditor-general-report-on-srl/107079060
Victorian premier plans to make $2b saving on Suburban Rail Loop
By Rachel Eddie
Underground station interchanges and "complex pedestrian bridges" are among the things to go, according to the state government.
#GovernmentFunding #StateandTerritoryGovernment #RachelEddie
Victorian premier vows to open 10 free dental clinics
By Rachel Eddie
Ben Carroll vows to create seven free walk-in dental clinics in metropolitan Melbourne and three in regional Victoria if he wins the November election.
Can the Liberals topple Victoria's government at the state election?
By Rachel Eddie
The Victorian state election is less than 100 days away. With One Nation's popularity riding high, how might the Coalition wrest power from Labor?
#Elections #StateandTerritoryElections #StateandTerritoryParliament #Liberals #ALP #OneNation #RachelEddie
Top lawyer calls out 'absurd criticism' of Big Build royal commission
By Richard Willingham and Rachel Eddie
Anti-corruption barrister Geoffrey Watson, who estimated a $15 billion taxpayer bill due to wastage on Big Build sites, has praised the terms of reference for a royal commission announced by the government.
#RoyalCommissions #Corruption #StateandTerritoryGovernment #RichardWillingham #RachelEddie
Thomas Embling Hospital staff battling burnout, drug abuse and violence
By Rachel Eddie
Insiders at Victoria's only mental healthcare provider for the criminal justice system is inefficient with government funding and struggles with a junior workforce that is burning out, according to a leaked report.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/thomas-embling-hospital-mental-health-leaked-report/107027706
#CourtOrderedMentalHealthTreatment #Prisons #MentalHealth #RachelEddie
Melbourne's deputy lord mayor poised to become Liberal Party candidate
By Rachel Eddie
Roshena Campbell has been chosen to replace Moira Deeming on the Liberal ticket at the upcoming state election.
How a bitter firefighters' pay dispute turned toxic in Victoria
By Rachel Eddie
IBAC's Operation Richmond found former premier Daniel Andrews, his senior ministers and public servants breached codes of conduct during protracted negotiations over a firefighters' wage deal in 2016.
Ben Carroll to fill one of three vacancies in Victorian cabinet, ABC understands
By Rachel Eddie and Mikaela Ortolan
MPs tell the ABC Victoria's new premier is only expected to fill one of the three vacancies in cabinet.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/ben-carroll-labor-premier-cabinet-reshuffle/106988818
The Labor MPs chasing promotions after Vic leadership spill
By Rachel Eddie
New Victorian Premier Ben Carroll is expected to announce his new-look ministry on Monday, with a handful of Labor MPs now jostling for promotions following the resignation of Jacinta Allan.
Machete attack forces Melbourne youth mental health workers out of office
By Rachel Eddie
Staff at a youth mental health clinic in Sunshine have been told to work off-site, after four masked men attempted to assault patients at the centre in Melbourne's west last week.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/sunshine-machete-youth-mental-health/106984140
Inside the Labor Party meeting where Victoria's new premier was elected
By Rachel Eddie
Ben Carroll emerged from a meeting of the Labor caucus on Tuesday as the party's new leader, but what the public did not see was a two-hour fight behind closed doors to decide who would run the state.
Ben Carroll begins first full day as Victorian premier
By Rachel Eddie and Alex Sinnott
Victoria's new premier Ben Carroll will spend most of his first full day as state leader in Spring Street, with the Victorian Parliament in the middle of a sitting week.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-29/ben-carroll-first-full-day-as-victorian-premier/106968666
Jacinta Allan began her career as a star, but her premiership waned
By Rachel Eddie
Jacinta Allan's parliamentary career started with her ascension to a ministry while still in her 20s, but waning support for her premiership has taken away her chance to lead Labor to an election.
Leadership spill as Carroll vies to replace Allan as Victorian Labor leader
By Rachel Eddie and Alex Sinnott
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan will face a leadership challenge at a meeting of Labor MPs this morning after Deputy Premier Ben Carroll said he would run for the top job.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/victorian-labor-caucus-weighs-up-allan-leadership/106962972
How Victorian Labor's leadership challenge could play out
By Rachel Eddie
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan's leadership is on a knife's edge, with Labor MPs moving to replace her in spill tomorrow. Here's how the challenge could play out.
Victorian premier facing leadership challenge this week
By Richard Willingham and Rachel Eddie
Factional convenors from both the right and left of the party room met on Sunday night to discuss whether Jacinta Allan still had the support of a majority of caucus. The ABC understands they agreed she did not.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-26/victoria-premier-jacinta-allan-leadership-challenge/106960114
#StateandTerritoryGovernment #PoliticalLeadership #RichardWillingham #RachelEddie
Breaking: Moira Deeming ousted as Liberal candidate after apology stand-off
By Rachel Eddie
Moira Deeming's political career as a Liberal is over after the party's Victorian state executive voted to revoke the MP's candidacy for the November state election.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-17/moira-deeming-liberal-party-decision-preselection/106928954
Financial backer of embattled MP Moira Deeming requests loan repayment
By Rachel Eddie
Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming is embroiled in further court action, this time over funds she is owed from her successful defamation action so that she can repay the businessman who bankrolled her case.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-16/moira-deeming-liberal-party-court-costs/106923426
Moira Deeming makes last-ditch plea to Liberal Party to retain candidacy
By Rachel Eddie
Victorian MP Moira Deeming faces being disendorsed as a Liberal candidate for refusing to apologise to former party leader Matthew Guy, after accusing him of assaulting her at a community event in May.
Minister demands answers from authority following corruption allegations
By Rachel Eddie and Richard Willingham
Victorian senior minister Melissa Horne says new allegations about union influence on state construction sites are "alarming", writing to the infrastructure authority to seek assurances they had acted appropriately.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-14/melissa-horne-vida-cfmeu-subcontactor-allegations/106914670
#Corruption #StateandTerritoryGovernment #RachelEddie #RichardWillingham