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Call that pork-barrelling? Hold my beer, says Jess Wilson (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It was the bright sunshine that gave the game away. On the morning that Premier Ben Carroll met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese under grey Melbourne skies to bring forward plans to build a rail line to the airport, Opposition Leader Jess Wilson posted a video committing a future Coalition government to the same thing. Beneath a sparkling blue sky, Wilson pledged, as part of the airport rail p
Ben Carroll says decisions about airport rail are personal. That is a problem (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Four years ago, as Victoria was heading into a state election, then public transport minister Ben Carroll announced that work would soon start on a long-promised rail line to the airport, with a new station at Keilor East by 2028. On Wednesday, with Victoria heading into a state election, now Premier Ben Carroll stood next to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to announce that work would soon start o
Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog finally has teeth. These are its new powers (opens the original)
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Victoria will finally have an anti-corruption watchdog with the authority and powers it needs to do its job after the parliament on its last sitting day before the state election agreed to the most substantial changes to IBAC since its inception. The long-awaited reforms, supported by the government, the Greens and the opposition, give the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission a broader remit to investigate corruption across the public sector, greater use of public hearings to expos
Topic | Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission | Brisbane Times (opens the original)
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The changes to IBAC agreed to in parliament on Thursday by the government, the opposition and the Greens represent the state’s most significant integrity reform since 2012. The former National Gallery of Victoria employee has been charged by the state’s corruption watchdog after allegedly siphoning $8 million from the gallery over four years. As parliament enters its final sitting week before the November 28 state election, one of the final acts will be to give the state’s anti-corruption watchd
Forget political dust-ups – some of parliament’s best work never makes the front page (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. At the start of this, the final sitting week in the life of Victoria’s 60th state parliament, all government business in the lower house was pushed aside for an entire day so that politicians could pay tribute to Tim Read, a Greens MP who died on Saturday from cancer. Some might regard this as Spring Street indulgence. As Greens leader Ellen Sandell remarked, Read would have probably wanted his co
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