Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber has fronted the Victorian Supreme Court in a precedent-setting case with huge ramifications for journalists and anyone concerned with transparency in government.
Tony Abbott spent the weekend doing his brand of a "listening tour" by rolling up his sleeves up and helping renovate a school library in the small Cape York community of Aurukun.
Religious representatives masquerading as youth workers are enjoying unsupervised access to students in certain state schools without the knowledge of some parents, writes Chris Fotinopoulos, a state schoolteacher and Melbourne writer.
Victoria's Environmental Protection Authority has sat on its hands and refused to prosecute companies and councils in flagrant breach of the state's environmental laws, a groundbreaking study has revealed.
Buried in an extract of former Victorian premier Steve Bracks' new book is a bald-faced admission that Bracks and crack spin doctor Sharon McCrohan specifically denied boning Sir James Gobbo for his Liberal connections.
There may have been a record 16 candidates in the Melbourne byelection but only two them bothered to turn up for this morning’s formal declaration of the poll. It told the tale of the tape.
If the Victorian Liberals were smart at the next federal election they could do a deal with the Greens to shore up Bandt in Melbourne and undermine some key Labor Right ministers who are particularly hostile to the Greens.
Why did the Australian Sex Party direct crucial preferences to Labor in the Melbourne byelection -- when their policies seem more in line with the Greens?
Notwithstanding the Greens' unduly stubborn refusal to concede defeat, it is beyond doubt that Labor is over the line in the Melbourne byelection, writes William Bowe of Crikey blog Poll Bludger.
The Victorian Labor Party agreed to lobby for the interests of the African community in exchange for vital preferences that will help its candidate beat the Greens in tomorrow's state byelection, the candidate says.
