David Southwick
- Exclusive
- Planning
Minister’s ‘fast-tracked’ housing towers become ghost projects
Two and a half years since this program was launched to great fanfare, just six homes have been built and sites remain untouched.
- Daniella White
Latest
- Updated
- Planning
Liberals target inner-city Labor, Greens seats for wave of skyscrapers
In their first major housing policy announcement before the election, the Liberals say they’ll reverse the Allan government’s high-density push in middle-ring suburbs.
- Daniella White
- Exclusive
- Planning
The 20-storey divide: Melbourne’s high-density push stalled by numbers that don’t stack up
With only 110,000 homes commercially viable in the state’s flagship activity centre push, economists and property industry figures want more lenient development rules to kickstart construction.
- Daniella White
- Opinion
- Editorial
Time to pay the Deeming debt and focus on the job of opposition
If the Liberal Party wants to move towards the voters it seeks to represent it may need to open its wallet.
- The Age's View
Swastika drawn on Liberal corflute of Indigenous candidate at home of MP David Southwick
A Liberal MP and candidate were both targeted with antisemitic graffiti on a corflute on Thursday morning.
- Alexander Darling
- Exclusive
- Antisemitism
Opposition mounts over Allan’s new hate laws
The premier faces a Jewish backlash over plans to insert a “genuine political purpose” defence into the government’s proposed expansion of anti-vilification laws.
- Chip Le Grand
Pesutto says he’s staying as rebels squabble over a replacement
Many in the Victorian Liberal Party want John Pesutto to go. If only they could decide who they want to replace him.
- Kieran Rooney, Chip Le Grand and Rachel Eddie
Deeming v Pesutto: Here’s what we now know about key state Liberals
There were covert recordings, private emails, text messages and colour-coded spreadsheets, but we learned plenty more in court about the key figures in the defamation case that ousted Liberal Moira Deeming brought against Opposition Leader John Pesutto.
- Rachel Eddie
- Updated
- Courts
Pesutto backs deputy who secretly taped Liberal meeting as ‘insurance’
Opposition Leader John Pesutto says he “absolutely” trusts David Southwick, who told the Federal Court he secretly recorded an internal meeting as an “insurance policy” because he could no longer trust Moira Deeming.
- Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
- Opinion
- Political leadership
Pesutto on shaky ground as MPs threaten to defect to Nationals
The relationship between the Coalition partners is at a low ebb after 15 months of chaos and division.
- Annika Smethurst