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Victoria’s Liberals saved John Pesutto from bankruptcy. But can they save themselves from all-out war?

Since Moira Deeming won a defamation case against the former leader, internal strife has intensified. Now a loan to Pesutto by the party threatens to rip it apart

The Guardian - AU · Jun 20, 2025

Victoria Liberals bail out John Pesutto with $1.5m loan to avoid bankruptcy

Party approves last-minute loan to help former leader pay $2.3m defamation costs against Moira Deeming

The Guardian - AU · Jun 19, 2025

Victorian Liberal party could reap $1m in interest from loan that would see John Pesutto repay $10,000 a month

Exclusive: Party to consider bailing out former leader with loan charged at commercial interest rate to cover balance of costs he owes Moira Deeming

The Guardian - AU · Jun 12, 2025

Go high or go home: Charlestown development set to be city's tallest building

It's go high or go home at Charlestown as developers turn the sod on what's set to be Lake Macquarie's tallest building, Macquarie Tower.

Newcastle Herald · Aug 25, 2022

How the west end was won: $1.2bn splurge in city's new CBD

Developers are dipping back into the planning system to ask for higher buildings as a new analysis reveals the scale of west end investment activity.

Newcastle Herald · Aug 10, 2022

High-rise boom 'the new normal' as Newcastle West plan unveiled

One Hunter developer says the Newcastle high-rise boom has evolved into the new normal.

Newcastle Herald · Aug 1, 2022

International airport closer to reality

THE push for a Newcastle International Airport goes back as far as the 1980s, when the business chamber of the day formed a committee to promote the idea. Then, in the late 1990s, Liberal Paterson MP Bob Baldwin pushed a plan by construction company Abigroup and Maitland businessman Hilton Grugeon…

Newcastle Herald · Apr 15, 2022