Treasury forecasts show surprisingly little confidence in the pokies harm minimisation measures the Victorian government is committed to implementing in 2012, writes Charles Livingstone, from the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.
Respected Melbourne City Councillor Jennifer Kanis looks set to succeed Bronwyn Pike as the next state member for Melbourne after the state's joint-longest serving female minister pulled the pin on her political career.
The future of a landmark social housing project lauded around the world remains under a cloud with the Victorian government refusing to commit to a new funding model amid a dip in homelessness funding in Tuesday's state budget.
Canberra and Queensland tend to get most of the political headlines these days, but there's been a bit more attention this week on Victoria, and not in a good way for Liberal premier Ted Baillieu.
The Victorian government won't reveal the amount of taxpayer funds spent on the set-up of a shadowy US military-linked intelligence operation in the heart of Melbourne. Andrew Crook and Bernard Keane report.
The Australian and reporter Chip Le Grand are being sued for defamation over a series of stories published last December in which a former Office of Police Integrity manager was accused of bullying.
Ted Ballieu's honeymoon period appears to have conked out barely a year after his government took office. The latest Newspoll gives the Coalition in Victoria a delicate two-party lead of 51-49, reports William Bowe.
The union representing parliamentary staff taking on Ted Baillieu over a new pay deal has referred Liberal Legislative Council President Bruce Atkinson to Fair Work Australia.
From drugs to transport ticketing systems, policies, events, product developments, factories, new businesses and wars, many otherwise calculating political and corporate leaders become quite irrational when it comes to having to say enough is enough.
The Australian today publishes Newspoll's latest quarterly breakdown, showing a slight lead for Labor in South Australia, a 50-50 poll for Victoria and big leads to the Coalition in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia, reports William Bowe.
