#vicpol — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vicpol, aggregated by home.social.
-
-
-
This morning, Jacinta Allan stepped aside as Premier of Victoria, and Ben Carroll was sworn-in promptly.
Ben Carroll becoming Premier is a regressive step for Victoria. He's a Shoppie who used to work with Stephen Conroy.
I'm tipping Victorians can expect Ben Carroll to offer:
- Talk about caring for the working-class, while actually suppressing wages and rights of workers, especially young and low income people.
- Centrist concessions to RWNJs.
- Erosion of the rights and protections for minorities such as LGBTQIA+ people.
- Pandering to conservative religious dogma on issues such as women's health, contraception, and abortion.
- Ignorant meddling with Tech, such as censorship, NBN/broadband, and whatever is happening with AI.
- Bizarre legislative carve-outs and gifts to big business.
- Further entrenchment of the gambling industry. -
This morning, Jacinta Allan stepped aside as Premier of Victoria, and Ben Carroll was sworn-in promptly.
Ben Carroll becoming Premier is a regressive step for Victoria. He's a Shoppie who used to work with Stephen Conroy.
I'm tipping Victorians can expect Ben Carroll to offer:
- Talk about caring for the working-class, while actually suppressing wages and rights of workers, especially young and low income people.
- Centrist concessions to RWNJs.
- Erosion of the rights and protections for minorities such as LGBTQIA+ people.
- Pandering to conservative religious dogma on issues such as women's health, contraception, and abortion.
- Ignorant meddling with Tech, such as censorship, NBN/broadband, and whatever is happening with AI.
- Bizarre legislative carve-outs and gifts to big business.
- Further entrenchment of the gambling industry. -
Victorian #Liberal leader, #JessWilson, has issued a short statement confirming #MoiraDeeming has quit the #LiberalParty:
“This morning I received the resignation from the Parliamentary Liberal Party from Moira Deeming.”
-
Victorian #Liberal leader, #JessWilson, has issued a short statement confirming #MoiraDeeming has quit the #LiberalParty:
“This morning I received the resignation from the Parliamentary Liberal Party from Moira Deeming.”
-
It doesn’t look like the Victorian Parliamentary Labor Causus was opposed to Allen’s legislative agenda as much as it was unconvinced Labor could win the coming election under her leadership. It might mean that Allen has burned through too much political trust with the electorates of Victoria and that the Party needs a new ‘face’ with an agenda that addresses Allen’s electoral shortcomings… Accountabilty, Transparency and action on corruption allegations.
IMO there is are lessons here for #AlboPM and #2028Elections
-
It doesn’t look like the Victorian Parliamentary Labor Causus was opposed to Allen’s legislative agenda as much as it was unconvinced Labor could win the coming election under her leadership. It might mean that Allen has burned through too much political trust with the electorates of Victoria and that the Party needs a new ‘face’ with an agenda that addresses Allen’s electoral shortcomings… Accountabilty, Transparency and action on corruption allegations.
IMO there is are lessons here for #AlboPM and #2028Elections
-
Is it me, or does #BenCarroll look like a Brighton Liberal?
-
@IndyMediaAus
The shame is her replacement won’t be any better or more credible. -
@IndyMediaAus
The shame is her replacement won’t be any better or more credible. -
People: We’d like functional state government that works for us.
Vic ALP: Nope! Here’s a clusterfuck instead.
-
People: We’d like functional state government that works for us.
Vic ALP: Nope! Here’s a clusterfuck instead.
-
I feel a bit sorry for Jacinta Allan in some ways - she inherited a lot of debt and other issues from her predecessor. But someone has to take responsibility for the lost public funds due to the Big Build corruption, it's not good enough to just hope the issue goes away.
-
I feel a bit sorry for Jacinta Allan in some ways - she inherited a lot of debt and other issues from her predecessor. But someone has to take responsibility for the lost public funds due to the Big Build corruption, it's not good enough to just hope the issue goes away.
-
RE: https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/116994594870716246
Crikey. Things moving fast at Spring Street.
-
RE: https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/116994594870716246
Crikey. Things moving fast at Spring Street.
-
#Victorian premier #JacintaAllan to step down.
“After speaking with my colleagues overnight, I’ve made the difficult decision to step aside.
Should #BenCarroll emerge as our next #Labor leader & Labor #premier, he will have my congratulations and unqualified support.
I am making this because it’s the right thing by the Labor party, and by the Victorian people.” -
#Victorian premier #JacintaAllan to step down.
“After speaking with my colleagues overnight, I’ve made the difficult decision to step aside.
Should #BenCarroll emerge as our next #Labor leader & Labor #premier, he will have my congratulations and unqualified support.
I am making this because it’s the right thing by the Labor party, and by the Victorian people.” -
-
-
More excitement in Spring Street today. I imagine if Carroll gets up, we'll have a Royal Commission into Big Build corruption by the end of the day.
#vicpol https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/i-was-always-keen-to-rise-inside-ben-carroll-s-journey-from-kmart-to-the-precipice-of-power-20260727-p60iwj.html
-
More excitement in Spring Street today. I imagine if Carroll gets up, we'll have a Royal Commission into Big Build corruption by the end of the day.
#vicpol https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/i-was-always-keen-to-rise-inside-ben-carroll-s-journey-from-kmart-to-the-precipice-of-power-20260727-p60iwj.html
-
Vic leadership spill today?
-
Vic leadership spill today?
-
I do wonder at the internal mindset of a party that thinks that by publicly ripping itself apart, people will be MORE likely to vote for them..... #vicpol #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/victorian-premier-jacinta-allan-ben-carroll-leadership-challenge/106791246
-
I do wonder at the internal mindset of a party that thinks that by publicly ripping itself apart, people will be MORE likely to vote for them..... #vicpol #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/victorian-premier-jacinta-allan-ben-carroll-leadership-challenge/106791246
-
-
-
Deputy Premier Ben Carroll tells Jacinta Allan he would put hand up to become Victoria's next Labor leader
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-27/victorian-premier-jacinta-allan-future-labor-mps-meet/106960880Last week, the media said there'll be a Victorian ALP spill.
Initially, Ben Carroll said no.
Then he said only if there's a vacancy.
Today, he said Spill.
He should know better than to take advice from the media. It's the end of his career, and bad for Labor in the lead-up to an election.There's been so much bad political reporting. They pushed conspiracy theories that Victoria's "Big Build" infrastructure projects are so Jacinta Allan's government can give millions to the perennial threat, "Bikie Gangs".
Nationally, the media's normalising neo-nazis. They hyped One Nation becoming the Opposition and Pauline Hanson becoming PM. But polls show the media's pump-up for One Nation fizzling.
I wish the media would stick to reporting on facts, and stop thinking they can steer the direction of politics.
-
Ben Raue
'I’m going to use some limited data we’ve gained on how One Nation is polling in the state seats of Victoria to model how votes might turn into seats if One Nation’s vote is higher or lower'
