POLITICAL PARTIES – VICTORIA

Wilson’s policy blueprint to take down Allan

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Original article by Anthony Galloway, Lily McCaffrey
The Australian – Page: 1 & 4 : 19-Nov-25

Victoria’s Opposition leader Jess Wilson has identified a range of policy priorities for the Coalition ahead of the state election next year. They include budget repair, the economy, healthcare, housing and the state’s crime crisis. Wilson has described herself as a "new generation" leader and says the appointment of a third Liberal leader in less than a year is a "line in the sand" moment for the party. Wilson was elected unopposed, with Brad Battin choosing not to contest the ballot after the party room voted 19-13 to spill the leadership. Sam Groth has been re-elected as deputy leader, while Beverley McArthur is the Opposition’s new leader in the upper house. The state government has already launched ‘attack’ ads targeting Wilson.

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LIBERAL PARTY OF VICTORIA

Pesutto leadership on the line as he faces special party room meeting

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Original article by Kieran Rooney
The Age – Page: Online : 17-Dec-24

A special meeting of the Victorian Liberal party room will be held on Friday, with its purpose being to return exiled MP Moira Deeming to the party room. The meeting is seen as a test of the leadership of John Pesutto, who last week lost his high-profile defamation case against Deeming. He was ordered to pay her $300,000 in damages, with Justice David O’Callaghan finding that Pesutto harmed Deeming’s reputation by "repeatedly and falsely implying that she knowingly associated with neo-Nazis". Deeming said after the judgement that she expected and wanted to be returned to the Liberal party room, while Pesutto has previously stated that any decision about her status is for the party room.

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LIBERAL PARTY OF VICTORIA

Pesutto leadership on the line as he faces special party room meeting

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Original article by Kieran Rooney
The Age – Page: Online : 17-Dec-24

A special meeting of the Victorian Liberal party room will be held on Friday, with its purpose being to return exiled MP Moira Deeming to the party room. The meeting is seen as a test of the leadership of John Pesutto, who last week lost his high-profile defamation case against Deeming. He was ordered to pay her $300,000 in damages, with Justice David O’Callaghan finding that Pesutto harmed Deeming’s reputation by "repeatedly and falsely implying that she knowingly associated with neo-Nazis". Deeming said after the judgement that she expected and wanted to be returned to the Liberal party room, while Pesutto has previously stated that any decision about her status is for the party room.

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LIBERAL PARTY OF VICTORIA

Sacked CFMEU leaders remain in ranks of Victorian ALP

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Original article by Damon Johnston, Ewin Hannan
The Australian – Page: 2 : 4-Sep-24

The militant CFMEU is under renewed scrutiny following revelations that about 300 of its members are also ‘grassroots’ members of the Labor Party in Victoria. They include four CFMEU officials who were sacked after the federal government recently legislated to appoint an administrator to its construction division. One of the sacked officials, Joe Myles, is also a member of Victorian Labor’s public office selection committee, which plays a key role in selecting state and federal candidates at elections.

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CONSTRUCTION, FORESTRY AND MARITIME EMPLOYEES UNION, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Allan no certainty to succeed Andrews

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Original article by Rachel Baxendale
The Australian – Page: 6 : 27-Sep-23

Victoria’s Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan is widely tipped to succeed Daniel Andrews as the state’s 49th premier. The transport and infrastructure minister is a member of Victorian Labor’s Socialist Left faction, as is Andrews. However, some Labor insiders have flagged the potential for factional unrest if rival contenders for the party’s leadership emerge. Labor’s caucus will meet on Wednesday to determine a successor to Andrews, but the party’s rules require nominations for leader to remain open for three days; the vote must go to a ballot of Labor members and state caucus if there is more than one nomination. This means that the new premier may not be decided until at least early next week.

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VICTORIA. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Rebel Labor MP drops red shirts bombshell

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Original article by Shannon Deery, Mitch Clarke, Kieran Rooney, Rhiannon Tuffield
Herald Sun – Page: Online : 10-Feb-22

Victoria’s upper house has passed Adem Somyurek’s motion to have Labor’s ‘Red Shirts’ scandal referred to the state’s Ombudsman for further investigation. The motion was passed after Labor MP Kaushaliya Vaghela joined the Opposition and the 12 crossbenchers in voting for a new probe into the $388,000 taxpayer rort. Vaghela is the first Labor MP to ‘cross the floor’ since the party won office in 2014; she is a close ally of Somyurek, and could be expelled by Labor. She says branch-stacking is endemic within Labor, and an investigation into the Socialist Left faction of Premier Daniel Andrews and other groups is needed.

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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, VICTORIA. OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN, VICTORIA. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET

Andrews targeted on red shirts rort

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Original article by Rachel Baxendale
The Australian – Page: 2 : 9-Feb-22

The Victorian Opposition will support Adem Somyurek’s motion to have Labor’s ‘Red Shirts’ scandal referred to the state’s Ombudsman for further investigation. The motion will also require the support of at least eight crossbenchers. Amongst other things, Somyurek wants the Ombudsman to investigate the role of Premier Daniel Andrews in "designing, propagating and facilitating" the misuse of taxpayers’ funds when he was opposition leader in 2014. Somyurek, who has admitted to being involved in the rort, was expelled by Labor in 2021 following a branch-stacking scandal.

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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, LIBERAL PARTY OF VICTORIA, VICTORIA. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, VICTORIA. OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN

Electoral staffer used for Victorian Labor factional work

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Original article by Hannah Wootton
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 4 : 13-Oct-21

Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission has heard further evidence of misuse of public resources within the state’s Labor government. Elle Schreiber had a senior role in the office of former Labor minister Adem Somyurek; she has told IBAC that she had often spent as much as 80 per cent of her working hours on party-political activities for Labor’s moderate faction rather than work related to Somyurek’s portfolio. Schreiber subsequently took up a role in the office of federal Labor MP Anthony Byrne, who revealed the extent of branch-stacking and the misuse of taxpayers’ funds in his appearance before IBAC on Monday.

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VICTORIA. INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Andrews loses fourth minister to branch stacking scandal

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Original article by Sumeyya Ilanbey
The Age – Page: Online : 12-Oct-21

Luke Donnellan resigned as Victoria’s Aged Care Minister on the first day of an Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission inquiry, after he was named as being part of a Labor branch-stacking operation led by former minister Adem Somyurek. Donnellan is the fourth member of the state government to have resigned in connection to the branch-stacking scandal; Somyurek, Marlene Kairouz and Robin Scott were forced to resign in 2020 after the media exposed the scandal.

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VICTORIA. INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Vic Liberal leadership rumblings resurface as Coalition closes gap on Labor

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Original article by Annika Smethurst, Paul Sakkal, Michael Fowler
The Age – Page: Online : 17-Jun-21

Victoria’s Opposition Leader Michael O’Brien survived a leadership spill in March, but there is believed to be a renewed push to oust him. Sources have indicated that state and federal Liberal Party MPs had discussed seeking a leadership spill on 22 June, but there had been insufficient numbers to move against O’Brien. The Victorian Liberals’ partyroom is said to be divided, with some MPs supporting either O’Brien or former party leader Matthew Guy, while others do not support either of them. A number of Victorian federal MPs are also pushing for Guy to replace O’Brien ahead of the state election in 2022.

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LIBERAL PARTY OF VICTORIA, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA