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Politics with Michelle Grattan: 'Teal' Monique Ryan on the Victorian election and six months in parliament

The Australian National University Dictionary Centre has just announced its word of the year is “teal”.

The Conversation

Final Vic election push as costs revealed

Final costings for the major parties' election commitments have been revealed, while Liberal Leader Matthew Guy pledged to lower the driving age in Victoria.

AAP

Young Victorians caught in cycle of homelessness despair of missed education

Campaigners call on state government to act on crisis, as most young people who approach homelessness services are turned away

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Two charged over missing Vic man's murder

A second Victorian man has been charged with murder over the 16-year disappearance of Christopher Jarvis, just hours after the first accused faced court.

AAP

Victorian Electoral Commission limits campaigners at booth over 'poor behaviour' ahead of state election

The electoral commission limits the number of campaigners allowed at a pre-polling booth in Melbourne's north-west over concerns about poor behaviour and intimidation.

ABC News

Vic Labor silent on full rail loop cost

The Victorian coalition has accused Labor of breaking a promise to provide a revised cost estimate for its entire Suburban Rail Loop project.

AAP

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

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Murder charge over missing Victorian man

A man has been charged with murder over the 2006 disappearance of Victorian man Christopher Jarvis, while another man remains in custody.

AAP

Fire season warning for Victorian farmers

While much of Victoria continues to battle floodwaters, authorities are warning farmers to start thinking about fire risk.

AAP

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.

ABC News

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.

AAP

‘Everyone’s against it’: the powerlines dispute in one of Victoria’s most marginal electorates

Proposed transmission lines to help meet renewable targets are slated to run through Ripon, held by just 15 votes in 2018

The Guardian - AU

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.

AAP

‘Not here to have a fight’: Victorian political leaders ditch aggression for debate amid cut-throat campaign

Offered opportunities to attack in Sky News debate, Daniel Andrews and Matthew Guy each sought to be more civil than the other

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Victorian Labor bid to amend constitution to keep state ownership of SEC may end up in high court, says expert

Daniel Andrews’ election pledge would mean future parliament would require ‘super majority’ to privatise State Electricity Commission

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Police clear Victorian MP who told protesters that Daniel Andrews should become ‘red mist’

Upper house MP Catherine Cumming did not commit offence during speech about state’s premier

ABC News

Horsham head-on crash leaves woman dead, man injured in western Victorian town

One person has died and another taken to hospital following a serious head-on accident in Horsham, western Victoria, this afternoon.

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First Major Rape Case Involving Vic Police Officer And Handled By New Taskforce Was Discontinued

A rape case involving a Victoria Police officer has been discontinued because "there were not reasonable prospects of conviction".

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The Conversation

Victorian Labor slumps in Resolve poll but still in winning position; Labor failure on upper house reform comes back to bite

The Victorian state election is on Saturday with polls closing at 6pm AEDT. There are 88 single-member lower house seats with members elected by preferential voting, and 40 upper house seats in eight five-member electorates.

Crikey

Crikey’s cheat-sheet guide to the Victorian election. Today: education

Even after Saturday’s poll the state’s public schools will continue to languish as the country’s most underfunded and underprivileged.

Crikey

Victoria’s Liberal Party was invaded by the margins, and now it lies in ruins

Politically, organisationally and morally, the Liberal Party of Victoria is unfit to take power and hold office. Which is likely to happen anyway.

ABC News

Collectable Furphy water cart sells for record $61,300 in north-east Victoria

A Furphy water tank dating back to the 1930s has sold to a collector in Victoria for an eye-watering price, believed to be more than double the previous record.

Crikey

Victoria having Labor pains

A new poll has Victorian Premier Dan Andrews losing ground to the Liberals’ Matthew Guy as preferred premier, and former PM Kevin Rudd warns there are just five years to prevent war with China.

The Conversation

Transport election promises are much smaller this time round in Victoria, but the quality control is no better

An election campaign can sometimes feel like Groundhog Day, but this Victorian election is genuinely different. While the major parties are still making plenty of transport promises, they’ve dialled them way down from the dizzy heights of 2018.

AAP

Vic power commission to go in constitution

A re-elected Labor government would enshrine a re-booted State Electricity Commission into the Victorian constitution, Premier Daniel Andrews has promised.

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