Richard Willingham
State Politics Reporter at ABC News (Australia)
Victorian politics. Melbourne. ABC. Dees. Views mine. tips: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Leanne Wong |Richard Willingham
A furious senior Liberal MP says Victorian Liberal deputy leader Sam Groth "needs to explain his actions" following revelations he used a taxpayer-funded car to shuttle him and his wife home after a day out at the Australian Open. The Herald Sun reported the Nepean MP used the chauffeured car of colleague Georgie Crozier to make the 100-kilometre journey home from Melbourne's CBD to Rye on the Mornington Peninsula in January 2024, after allegedly becoming intoxicated at the tournament.
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abc.net.au | Andi Yu |Richard Willingham
Liberal MP Moira Deeming says she will pursue senior Victorian Liberal figures to help recover $2.3 million in legal costs if John Pesutto cannot pay. Ms Deeming successfully sued the former Victorian Liberal leader for defamation after he moved to expel her from the party room in 2023 after she attended an anti-trans-rights rally that was gatecrashed by Neo-Nazis. Earlier this month, Mr Pesutto was ordered to pay more than $2.3 million in costs to Ms Deeming.
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abc.net.au | Richard Willingham
It took a brawl between machete-wielding young people at a suburban shopping centre to speed up Victoria's ban of long-edged weapons — not some well-developed policy process from Premier Jacinta Allan's government. It has all the hallmarks of a premier in survival mode, a government struggling to define and stick to its political narrative and a party still grappling with a law-and-order problem.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Richard Willingham
Landmark reforms to make poker machines safer for Victorian punters have been delayed by years by the Allan government, a decision that has infuriated colleagues and gambling reformers. Former premier Daniel Andrews made a shock policy announcement in 2023 to force all punters to preset how much they were willing to lose before playing the pokies — the scheme is often known as "carded play" or "mandatory precommitment".
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Richard Willingham |Leanne Wong
John Pesutto has broken his silence since losing his high profile — and costly — defamation lawsuit to Moira Deeming. It coincides with a fake fundraiser being posted online purporting to be collecting donations to pay Mr Pesutto's $2.3 million legal bill. John Pesutto has three weeks to come up with the funds to pay the legal bill or he'll be placed into bankruptcy.
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