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Benita Kolovos

Melbourne

Victorian State Correspondent at The Guardian Australia

Victorian State Correspondent @GuardianAus. Formerly AAP. I’m not here much anymore. You can reach me on [email protected].

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  • Victorian Nationals open to working with a Dutton government to build nuclear reactor

    1 week ago | theguardian.com | Benita Kolovos

    The Victorian Nationals have left the door open to working with a Dutton government to build a nuclear reactor in the Latrobe Valley, as the Liberal leader, Brad Battin, was urged to “get a spine” and rule out a repeal of the state’s nuclear ban. In an interview with Guardian Australia, Battin distanced the Victorian Coalition from Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan, saying the state opposition was instead focused on expanding onshore gas exploration.

  • Victoria’s curriculum authority board sacked after VCE exam bungle

    1 week ago | theguardian.com | Adeshola Ore |Benita Kolovos

    The entire board of Victoria’s curriculum authority has been sacked after a review into the state’s VCE cheat sheet bungle last year. The blunder, during last year’s year 12 exams in Victoria, saw exam content released weeks before students sat for the tests. The review found the sample cover pages containing exam content had been viewed about 6,000 times.

  • Victorian Liberal leader distances state party from Peter Dutton’s nuclear proposal: ‘Our focus is gas’

    1 week ago | theguardian.com | Benita Kolovos

    The Victorian opposition leader says he discussed the language he would use to distance the state party from the federal Coalition’s campaign to build a nuclear reactor in the Latrobe Valley, telling Peter Dutton “it’s your campaign”. The Loy Yang coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley east of Melbourne is one of seven proposed sites for the federal Coalition’s proposal to build nuclear reactors, the centrepiece energy policy the federal Liberal leader will be taking to the 3 May poll.

  • Victoria’s Liberal leader is counting the days to the election. But will ‘brand Brad’ pass the pub test?

    1 week ago | theguardian.com | Benita Kolovos

    It’s 2.30pm on a Wednesday in Melbourne’s CBD and Victoria’s opposition leader, Brad Battin, is nursing a Guinness in a corner booth of the Elephant and Wheelbarrow. “Should I split the G?” he says, referring to the pub game of drinking down to the horizontal line in the Guinness logo.

  • Israel-Gaza war looms large over Labor’s hold on Melbourne seats of Macnamara and Wills

    1 week ago | theguardian.com | Benita Kolovos

    In two Melbourne electorates, just 15km apart, Labor finds itself under attack from both sides of a conflict nearly 14,000km away. In the bayside seat of Macnamara, home to Victoria’s largest Jewish community, the party has been criticised for its response to antisemitism and a perceived failure to stand firmly with Israel amid the war in Gaza, sparked by the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023.

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