Richard Willingham
State Politics Reporter at ABC News (Australia)
Victorian politics. Melbourne. ABC. Dees. Views mine. tips: [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Richard Willingham
Federal and Victorian Liberal MPs and candidates are sweating over the prospect of former state leader John Pesutto being bankrupted by a bitter defamation battle, which would force him out of parliament during the federal election. Late last year, fellow Liberal MP Moira Deeming won a defamation action she had brought against Mr Pesutto and was awarded $315,000 in damages.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Richard Willingham
All roads to the Lodge run through Victoria. The state, once dismissed as the Massachusetts of Australia due to its progressive proclivity, presents a path both Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton must tread very carefully. Both sides know that Victoria, in particular Melbourne, is key. Pollsters agree. Parties note that many of the seats are being fought on very different boundaries to the last poll.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Richard Willingham
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is being urged to fast-track nation-leading poker machine reform because of the guardrails it will provide problem gamblers, amid backlash from the pokies lobby and the state opposition. In 2023, then-premier Daniel Andrews announced that anyone wanting to play a poker machine in Victoria would have to set limits on how much they were willing to lose before playing the pokies. A special card would be required to play.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Richard Willingham |Judd Boaz
Custody for youth offenders will no longer be a last resort and community safety will be made the priority principle in all bail decisions under a dramatic legal shake-up in Victoria designed to mete out tougher punishments and conditions for people committing serious crimes. Premier Jacinta Allan's government has been under immense pressure to reform the laws amid rising crime rates and a spate of repeat offenders terrorising homes armed with weapons, including machetes.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Judd Boaz |Richard Willingham
The Victorian government will ban machetes across the state as part of a package of law changes aimed at stamping out serious offending, the ABC understands. The new laws — to be announced tomorrow morning by Premier Jacinta Allan — will target serious offending, including home invasion and carjacking. Ms Allan and her government have been under pressure both politically and from the community to address such crimes.
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Federal and Victorian Liberal MPs and candidates are sweating over the prospect of former state leader John Pesutto being bankrupted by a bitter defamation battle which could force him out of parliament during the federal election. #springst #ausvotes25 https://t.co/BAmsi76XTt
Former Kooyong MP Petro Georgiou has died. His family say he died peacefully on Thursday evening. “Petro was an inspirational figure in our lives, and a giant across the Australian community.” The Liberal MP entered parliament in 1994, and retired at the 2010 and election.
Mandated play cards for all Victorian poker machines to be debated in state parliament amid calls to fast-track trial https://t.co/0o2MdsmqMW