Richard Willingham
State Politics Reporter at ABC News (Australia)
Victorian politics. Melbourne. ABC. Dees. Views mine. tips: [email protected]
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Former New Zealand police commissioner Mike Bush announced as new Victoria Police chief commissioner
1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Richard Willingham
Former New Zealand police commissioner Mike Bush is set to lead Victoria Police, the ABC understands. The state government is understood to have made the decision on Monday, with a formal appointment to made on Tuesday morning, senior sources say. Victoria currently has an acting chief commissioner in Rick Nugent, after Shane Patton left the post following a vote of no confidence from police officers earlier this year.
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abc.net.au | Richard Willingham
Before the federal election, Victoria was considered the problem child of the Labor family. State Labor figures began the year worrying that the performance of Jacinta Allan's Labor government would drag down the prime minister's chances of forming a majority government. The Liberals sensed something too. It was eyeing off as many as seven seats in Victoria, including retaking two seats from teal independents in Kooyong and Goldstein.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Joseph Dunstan |Richard Willingham |Mikaela Ortolan
Senior Liberal figures say the party must review the way it ran its election campaign after it was reduced to just a small handful of seats across the Melbourne region. In a result that delivered a stunning majority win to Labor, the Liberals failed to make inroads in outer-suburban parts of Melbourne despite extensive campaigning on cost-of-living anger.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Richard Willingham
A Bendigo bar owned by the Nationals star candidate for the seat of Bendigo was selling alcohol while its licence was suspended this month, potentially attracting thousands of dollars in fines. Andrew Lethlean, a long time publican, is running for the Nationals in Bendigo, a seat held by the ALP since 1998, has blamed the suspension on an "administrative oversight" which has now been rectified.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Richard Willingham
At the end of each day, the traffic trying to get off the Hume Freeway banks up and up and up. Commuters trying to get home to new estates in suburbs such as Kalkallo and Donnybrook spend up to 90 minutes stuck in gridlock. Drivers have had enough.
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