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  • 1 week ago | theage.com.au | Chip Le Grand |Kieran Rooney

    By Chip Le Grand and Kieran RooneyUpdated June 20, 2025 — 2.56pmfirst published at 10.40am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A group of white knights stepped in to personally guarantee a $1.55 million loan from the Victorian Liberal Party to keep John Pesutto out of bankruptcy and resolve a crisis threatening to devour the party’s electoral prospects.

  • 1 week ago | theage.com.au | Kieran Rooney |Chip Le Grand

    By Kieran Rooney and Chip Le Grand June 20, 2025 — 10.40am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A financial bailout for John Pesutto was backed by the man who toppled his leadership, with the Liberal party’s decision prompting Moira Deeming to liken her treatment to institutional abuse.

  • 1 week ago | theage.com.au | Chip Le Grand |Kieran Rooney

    By Chip Le Grand and Kieran Rooney June 19, 2025 — 5.59pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Opposition Leader Brad Battin has refused to say whether he will support a party-funded rescue package to save his predecessor John Pesutto from bankruptcy, as the state party’s governing board meets to consider the proposal.

  • 1 week ago | theage.com.au | Chip Le Grand

    This developer wants to keep Pesutto on a leash. What’s worse, Liberals are entertaining the ideaOpinion June 19, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Last Wednesday morning, Brad Battin sent a text message to the man he replaced as Liberal leader, John Pesutto, containing an outrageous offer.

  • 1 week ago | theage.com.au | Chip Le Grand |Grant McArthur

    By Chip Le Grand and Grant McArthur June 14, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Victoria’s mental health watchdog has blown the whistle on “drastic” cuts to its budget, warning they will leave it unable to meet its primary responsibility – holding the state government to account for the performance of the mental health system.

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Chip Le Grand
Chip Le Grand @Melbchief
22 May 25

RT @kevinbonham: Find it amusing how we have a 13-candidate contest for the seat called Calwell when its namesake would have blocked about…

Chip Le Grand
Chip Le Grand @Melbchief
26 Apr 25

This is disingenuous @angijones. The right wing extremism tag clearly refers to the neo-Nazis who gate crashed the 2023 rally, not the women who organised it. The story, consistent with my reporting over the past two years, makes explicit this distinction.

Angie Jones
Angie Jones @angijones

@SydneyAllMoore @7NewsMelbourne Many don’t read beyond the headlines or images sadly. It’s also despicable how @theage put Jasmine next to Nazi salutes and tagged the online article “far right extremism” Expected better from @Melbchief False associations like that will get women like me killed. https://t.co/LF1Z84br5g

Chip Le Grand
Chip Le Grand @Melbchief
29 Dec 24

RT @smokiedawson: Spotted! The first ‘bundled out’ of the tennis summer! #BundledOut https://t.co/KLezxQJ79J