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Three Coalition premiers are running the east coast states. A Crikey analysis of their economies shows Barry O’Farrell is streets ahead, while Victoria marks time and Queensland is in the doldrums.

A new report suggests the Latrobe Valley will fare better under a carbon price than under electricity privatisation. Not that that was how it was reported.

The “patchwork economy” isn’t much in evidence in today’s employment data.

Week two happenings in the Victorian election so far include the media’s diagnosis of the soon-to-be-forgotten leaders debate, Ted Ballieu’s struggle to get his message out and the ALP’s secret research that tells them what they should already know, reports William Bowe.

John Brumby’s recalcitrance on health reform has led to some unexpected scrutiny of his own health record — and it’s not pretty. Opposition leader Ted Baillieu must be unable to believe his luck.

Fuel reduction burning remains something of a contentious issue in Victoria, but that hasn’t deterred the state’s Department of Sustainability and Environment, writes Lionel Elmore.

Theo Theophanous, the Victorian government MP who has been charged with r-pe, has been busy using the media to defend himself against his accuser, but he may regret the strategy, writes Greg Barnes.

How does Ms Pike justify her practice, and that of her colleagues in parliaments right across Australia, eagerly rushing off to schools, particularly at election time, so they can be photographed with unsuspecting kids who can’t vote? asks Greg Barns.

What would Jesus do…if he was the CEO of a catholic hospital confronted with the proposed new abortion laws currently before the Victorian Parliament?

There will certainly be class actions arising out of the methane gas leaks in Cranbourne, an outer suburb of Melbourne. At the moment, 230 homeowners have been advised to relocate and up to a thousand may be affected, writes Peter Faris.

The idea of tragedy has been exiled from our political culture, writes John Armstrong.

Video footage following up on the plight of black swans and how the DSE is responding.

When Bairnsdale locals found out that 40 black swans had been shot in a DSE authorised cull, the contacted ABC’s Stateline with the story. That’s when it got interesting, writes Lionel Elmore.

As of today, electorate office staff of Victorian MPs will be bound by a new code of conduct signed off by Victorian Speaker Jenny Lindell and Council President Robert Smith, writes Bernard Keane.

Once someone walks free from court, most people would assume that they could get on with their lives. Not so the flamboyant Ms Garde-Wilson, writes Greg Barns.

Melbourne emergency medicine specialist Thomas Kossman has become a national figure because he has been subjected to what looks disturbingly like a witch hunt, writes Greg Barns.

The campaign for the Federal seat of Gippsland is off and running at a funereal pace, which is apt, writes an anonymous Gippsland innsider.

Malcolm Turnbull fronts the National Press Club today. Bernard Keane will be wondering, chicken or beef?

One of the original sackees in the Lib blogs scandal has kept more or less every email he has ever received during his time in the party, and has enough ammunition to scare plenty of people, reports Bernard Keane.

Some choices moments from that Baillieu blog. Compiled by Thomas Hunter.

Liberal party insiders say the leak which linked two staffers to the Ted Ballieu hate blog was was part of an internal party war, writes Bernard Keane.

It was billed as the match of the century, but like the Big V versus the Dream Team was a fizzer, writes Francis Leach.

Ted Ballieu has sacked the two staffers exposed as the authors of He Who Stands For Nothing, the hate site attacking him, . But the incident points to a deeper structural problem within the Liberal Party.

Stephen Mayne reads between the lines of yesterday’s Victorian budget.