Most people are polite at Berwick Station as they're accosted by Labor candidate Laura Smyth, but she has a huge challenge to hold La Trobe. Crikey spent the day in the outer-Melbourne seat.
There's a well-oiled machine in a dingy Melbourne office block working overtime to keep Greens MP Adam Bandt in Parliament. But the social shifts in the progressive seat are more helpful.
For the challenger, it takes plenty of shoe leather -- and front -- to hit the campaign trail in a safe seat. The Citizen's Michael Roddan tagged along with one such political hopeful.
Clare O'Neil has won endorsement to run for Labor in Hotham, but not before internal party rivals tried to discredit her with dirt-digging into her past.
McDonald's protesters have been "ringed" by police as their Tecoma occupation continues in the face of mounting pressure to disperse.
Leaked notes from McDonald's management show the fast food giant is liaising with police to bring in a search and rescue team to end a protest at a controversial Victorian restaurant site.
Electorates Dunkley and Macquarie are among the most marginal in the country. William Bowe profiles them in this week's Seat of the Week.
The Labor Party's Left have told the bickering Victorian Right to take a cold shower and come and see them again when they've sorted out their differences.
Victorian Labor is at breaking point as the battle for preselection in Simon Crean's seat of Hotham turns nuclear. Letters and accusations are flying ahead of tonight's vote.
The Victorian ALP has received five nominations for the number three spot on the party's Senate ticket vacated by David Feeney.
