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Victoria election 2022 report card, week four: a debate, the challenge for pollsters and the sprint to the finish line

Three guest panellists give their verdict on how the parties performed in the final week of the campaign

The Guardian - AU

Privatisation has failed. Australia needs to ditch the ‘incentives’ rhetoric and simply spend money on things we need

State governments are starting to realise that old-fashioned direct public investment in essential services solves a lot of problems at once

The Guardian - AU

Australia's Victoria state election tightens with Labor ahead in polls

Australia's Victoria state will vote to select its next government on Saturday in what polls predict to be a close-run contest with the incumbent Labor government's lead against the conservative coalition shrinking in the final campaign stretch.

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says the state’s ambulance response times were the best ever just weeks before the pandemic. Is that correct?

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says the state achieved its best ambulance response times in its history "just weeks" before the pandemic. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

ABC News

Morsels from a perfectly cooked election campaign (part two)

There’s a lot of terms you could use to describe the wild 2022 Victorian election campaign, some more publishable than others. Read part two of Crikey’s mammoth wrap-up.

Crikey

Should pharmacists be able to prescribe common medicines like antibiotics for UTIs? We asked 5 experts

Victoria is the latest state to move towards pharmacist prescribing, with Premier Daniel Andrews promising a trial allowing pharmacists to prescribe antibiotics for urinary tract infections (UTIs) and medicines for other conditions if re-elected.

The Conversation

‘Sack Dan Andrews’: major and fringe figures descend on Mulgrave to try to unseat the premier

A community group with undisclosed links to the Liberal Party posted this to Instagram: ‘Literally hiding from HIS OWN ELECTORATE because he is so hated.’

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Victorian leaders Daniel Andrews, Matthew Guy make final pitches as election day nears

The electoral commission says more than 1.63 million Victorians have taken advantage of early voting, and Premier Daniel Andrews and his family members have joined them as the leaders make their final election pitches.

ABC News

My loyalty was betrayed: Frydenberg

Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg says being ‘loyal to a fault’ to Scott Morrison was repaid with betrayal, and Jim Chalmers says Australia must beat China in the race for lithium mining supremacy.

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As Victoria's election race tightens, these are some of the seats the leaders have been visiting

In the final few weeks of campaigning, the two men vying to be Victoria's premier have been zig-zagging across the state. Where they've visited could offer some clues into how they think things might be shaping up in the final stretch.

ABC News

Confused about who to vote for in the Victorian election? A guide to the promises made across key issues

From health to the environment and the cost of living, we’ve sorted through the major promises and policies announced by Labor, the Coalition and the Greens

The Guardian - AU

Victoria’s major parties look to contingency funds as part of election commitment costings

Both Labor and the Coalition claim they could achieve forecast surpluses after releasing their costings

The Guardian - AU

Here’s how Victoria’s political parties have been trying to win your vote on Facebook this election

There are few standout ads, but the Liberals’ campaign appears to be doing more than Labor’s.

Crikey

‘We’re doomed’: Dan Andrews’ Sky News debate triumph disappoints conservatives

Only four votes separated Dan Andrews and Matthew Guy after the Sky News debate, but conservative pundits were unimpressed with the Victorian Liberal leader’s form.

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Daniel Andrews on the defensive as 80% of local Victorian election promises benefit Labor electorates

Guardian analysis of promises targeting single seats shows Labor sandbagging home turf while opponents spend big on marginals

Crikey

Getting off Scott free

Taxpayers will have to fork out for former prime minister Scott Morrison’s legal fees when he appears before the robodebt royal commission, and the NSW flood crisis is the most expensive natural disaster in history.

The Guardian - AU

From bail reform to Covid: the five issues missing from the Victoria state election campaign

Amid the pledges for new hospitals, power bill relief and $2 public transport fares, other important matters have been noticeably absent

The Guardian - AU

War of words continues over removal of Victorian Labor election billboards despite court ruling

Darebin council has denied ALP accusation of ‘blatant political interference’ in the tightly contested seat of Northcote

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Why has the Victoria state election campaign turned so ugly?

In a political landscape polarised by the pandemic, the campaign has been dogged by scandal, allegations of vote-rigging and even violence

The Guardian - AU

Bridget Archer flags crossing the floor again on national integrity commission – as it happened

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Crikey

Not waving, drowning

Australia is 1.47C hotter now than it was in 1910 with extreme weather only going to get worse, a new report has warned, and interest rates are likely to have reached 3.1% by December.

ABC News

Victoria's youngest voters share what will swing their vote ahead of the state election

Gen Z voters now form 10 per cent of the voter base in Victoria, with issues like health funding, integrity and infrastructure the biggest of their election concerns.

AAP

Doctor groups slam prescription changes

Doctors have hit out at Victorian Labor's plan if re-elected to allow pharmacists to hand out antibiotics and issue scripts for the contraceptive pill.

The New Daily

‘Makes no sense’: Liberals slammed over ‘extreme’ preference deals

The Liberals listed a candidate with a long history of making anti-Semitic remarks online, above Labor in the seat of Narre Warren South.

AAP

Vic leaders square off in election debate

Victoria's major party leaders have sparred over energy, integrity and health in the first and only debate between the pair ahead of the November 26 election.

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