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- Jacinta Allan
The best thing Allan has going for her is the ineptitude of her challengers
It is difficult to recall a less convincing leadership play than the campaign currently being run against Premier Jacinta Allan.
- Chip Le Grand
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Firefighter forced to pay for fire truck fuel from their own pocket
The incident comes amid skyrocketing petrol costs and a cost-of-living crisis.
- Benjamin Preiss
Jacinta Allan is in a battle royale to keep her job
With a recent poll showing only one in five people see her as their preferred premier, Jacinta Allan’s leadership is looking increasingly vulnerable.
- Chip Le Grand, Rachel Eddie and Daniella White
Allan rejects leadership speculation as ‘scallywag gossip’ as MPs publicly back leader
Premier Jacinta Allan and a conga line of Labor MPs have dismissed speculative reports of a possible leadership challenge before the state election.
- Chip Le Grand, Rachel Eddie and Daniella White
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- Building Bad
Infrastructure boss ‘warned’ Allan as CFMEU ran rampant
Sources say the Big Build’s top public servant repeatedly raised concerns in private about industrial trouble on the government’s sites.
- Nick McKenzie, Sumeyya Ilanbey and Kieran Rooney
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Somali community group faces impending eviction despite plea for relocation
A support group which has helped refugees access jobs, legal advice, schools and housing for 35 years could itself become homeless at the end of this week.
- Chip Le Grand
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- Victoria residential property
‘I hope she haunts that house’: Agents face trespass allegations over deceased estates
“My mum would have hated people being in her house without my permission,” wrote one of the home’s distressed owners.
- Aisha Dow
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
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- Daniel Andrews
‘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
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- Victorian election
The Greens went backwards at the federal election. Can state Labor attack?
As the Greens preselect their replacement for Brunswick MP Tim Read, Labor’s Richmond candidate vows to push her party on safe injecting rooms and social housing.
- Rachel Eddie