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Victorian microparty MPs including Georgie Purcell to face re-election struggle after group voting tickets abolished

Voters will be required to number at least five parties above the line in order of preference after bill passed upper house 33 votes to four

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Upper house shake-up looms as old voting system binned

Victoria has become the last Australian jurisdiction to abolish a voting system that enabled candidates to be elected with a fraction of first preferences.

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Voting in Victoria is broken. Here’s how it could be fixed and who would benefit

Victoria is the only state to still use group voting tickets to elect its upper house. What will it mean for voters and the parliament if it abolishes them?

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Licence to burn: Victoria is changing the way it deals with rubbish – is it moving too fast?

Full health and environmental impacts of increasingly relying on waste-to-energy plants to deal with state’s rubbish still unknown

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Victims turn up heat over abuse liability 'loophole'

A state isn't ruling out a unilateral legislative response after a High Court ruling that a church wasn't liable for a priest's historical abuse of a child.

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Almost a third of those eligible for Victorian homebuyer scheme would miss out under federal Help to Buy

Exclusive: PBO report finds Help to Buy has lower income and property price caps than generous state program

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Victoria’s ‘world-first’ medical cannabis driving trial to finish in late 2025, disappointing advocates

Legalise Cannabis MPs say they were guaranteed by Andrews government issue was a priority that would be resolved by 2024

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Victoria prepares to launch medicinal cannabis driving trial

Bill introduced on Tuesday will allow medicinal cannabis users to take part in closed-circuit trial

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Push for legal personal marijuana use in NSW, Vic, WA

The Legalise Cannabis Party is poised to introduce bills to decriminalise the drug for personal use in NSW, Victoria and Western Australian parliaments.

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Legalise Cannabis makes united push for personal marijuana use in three Australian states

The party’s bill allowing adults to possess and grow small quantities of the drug at home will be introduced across Victoria, NSW and WA

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Industrial hemp vying to take over Victoria’s timber industry, but not all politicians agree

Hemp advocates hail the much-maligned crop as the billion-dollar saviour to Victoria's ailing timber industry, but politicians are concerned the industry could pave the way to legalising cannabis.

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Just Stop Oil protestor who glued himself to road calls government 'embarrassing'

The Wirral man was among six protesters who were found guilty of disrupting traffic in October last year

Liverpool Echo

Reason Party leader Fiona Patten on finding her place after two terms as a politician

Since conceding defeat in December, the former member of the Victorian Legislative Council has finished chemotherapy and is looking for the next opportunity to advocate for change.

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Victoria’s major parties back overhaul of drug-driving laws for medicinal cannabis users

The government and opposition are backing Legalise Cannabis effort to change ‘unfair’ road safety laws

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‘I’m not impaired’: Victoria’s parliament to debate drug driving in age of medicinal cannabis

Alice Davy was legally able to drive on other painkillers but now risks losing her licence on the school run

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