The auditor who helped repair Victoria’s finances under Jeff Kennett and costed Daniel Andrews’ promises has warned the major parties to slow spending on election sweeteners.
The auditor who helped repair Victoria’s finances under Jeff Kennett and costed Daniel Andrews’ promises has warned the major parties to slow spending on election sweeteners.
Hostility from constituents is not new for the state’s politicians, including its premiers. But the alleged attack on Helen Haines has sent a chill down the collective spine
On Monday night, Georgie Purcell shared a statement on social media in support of Helen Haines, who earlier that day had been allegedly attacked by a constituent in her regional Victorian electorate.
Purcell, a Victorian upper house MP whose region partly overlaps with Haines’s federal electorate, wrote that the alleged attack had sent chills down her spine. Being a woman in politics, she said, had changed the way she moved through the world – where she parked her car, which route she took home, even whether she held public events at all.
A private security firm contracted by the AFL to oversee Marvel Stadium has been place into liquidation, owing almost $2 million in tax and facing claims that hundreds of staff were underpaid.
A private security firm contracted by the AFL to oversee Marvel Stadium has been place into liquidation, owing almost $2 million in tax and facing claims that hundreds of staff were underpaid.
As locals continue to grapple with the violent attack on Helen Haines, towns across north-east Victoria are turning to an iconic Australian bird to show solidarity.
The white-walled room packed with magpies, galahs and sulphur-crested cockatoos, foxes and possums is eerily quiet. As a video pans across shelves filled with these and many other species, there is no flapping or squawking or hissing; the animals are frozen and silent.
They are among the more than 700 native animals that were found illegally taxidermied and frozen that were seized from the property of a Victorian antiques store owner last year.
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