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Then-premier Daniel Andrews and his then-deputy, Jacinta Allan, announce the cancellation of the 2026 Commonwealth Games on July 18, 2023.

Premier, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars is no game

This week, Victoria was supposed to be hosting the Commonwealth Games. Instead, the state is counting the cost of another blunder.

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Robert Goon, Gary Smith and Bill Stolk from the Ballarat Residents and Ratepayers’ Association at the old saleyards.

The Games were supposed to deliver benefits to the regions. But many are still waiting

After the event was scrapped, Daniel Andrews told the regions the promised infrastructure and housing would still arrive. Empty paddocks tell a different story.

  • Rachel Eddie
Colin Robertson, a self-described amateur detective who has been investigating the crash for almost four years.

‘Bike boy’ campaign accused of giving cash gifts to potential witnesses in case against Daniel Andrews

Court documents say those driving the “bike boy scandal” spent tens of thousands of fundraising money on “gifts” to potential witnesses in lawsuits they lodged on behalf of the young cyclist injured in a 2013 crash.

  • Sherryn Groch
Victoria is now building fewer homes than it was before its 2023 landmark housing statement, casting fresh doubt on the pledge to deliver 800,000 properties over the next decade.

Andrews promised Victoria a record number of homes. Instead, we’re going backwards

Two years into its decade-long building spree, Victoria has fallen far short of its annual target, with current completions lower than anytime in the past 11 years.

  • Daniella White
Former premier Daniel Andrews, left, and Ombudsman Deborah Glass.

There are invisible strings that the powerful use to keep critics at bay

Keeping integrity agencies truly independent is more important than ever. More often than not, they are controlled by the very government the agency is appointed to oversee.

  • Deborah Glass
The CFMEU’s transformation from construction union to crime syndicate was fuelled by an explosion in government spending.

Daniel Andrews couldn’t spend our money fast enough. It is no surprise crooks cashed in

So long as you had a union ticket, the Andrews government was a scoundrel’s dream.

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Chris Lucas took on then-premier Daniel Andrews during COVID.

The Society man v the premier: When Daniel Andrews tipped Chris Lucas over the edge

He is the Geelong boy who built a Toorak palace on grit and gourmet burgers. But when lockdowns silenced the city, Chris Lucas found his voice, trading the dining room for the war room to challenge a premier.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Jacinta Allan.

Allan’s CFMEU stonewalling is a failure of leadership

The past week’s CFMEU revelations have shocked Victorians. They deserve to know how the state ended up paying billions to bikies.

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Daniel Andrews with his wife, Catherine, in 2023.

Daniel Andrews claims ‘bike boy’ defamation case is politically motivated

The former premier and his wife have filed their defence to defamation proceedings launched by Ryan Meuleman, who was injured in a 2013 collision.

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The residential towers in Flemington.

Public housing to be razed after appeals court gives final green light

Despite noting residents’ “significant grief”, the court’s ruling allows the Allan government to demolish the first three occupied towers in North Melbourne and Flemington.

  • Rachael Dexter