Sumeyya Ilanbey

Melbourne

Business Journalist at The Age

Business Journalist at Sydney Morning Herald

Victorian political correspondent @afr, previously with @theage and @smh | Author @allenandunwin

Articles

Jeff Kennett urges Victorian Liberal Party executive committee to bail out Pesutto from defamation bill that could bankrupt him

5 days ago | afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey

Jun 2, 2025 – 4.19pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has issued an 11th-hour plea to the Liberal Party’s powerful administrative committee to save ex-leader John Pesutto from being bankrupted by a multimillion dollar defamation debt to colleague Moira Deeming.
Vic Liberal turmoil deepens: Deeming fires legal missive at president

1 week ago | afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey

May 30, 2025 – 8.09pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming has sent a legal letter to the party’s state president chastising him for not publicly rebuking John Pesutto over his defamation of her and accusing the division of enabling the former leader to raise funds “under the name of the Liberal Party”.
Victorian Labor hiked taxes to pay down debt. Instead, it rose by $5b

1 week ago | afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey

May 30, 2025 – 5.21pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Victorian government’s debt pile in 2026 will be $5 billion greater than forecast two years ago when then-treasurer Tim Pallas slapped businesses and investors with higher taxes to repay emergency funds borrowed at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Albanese government considers east coast gas reserve for Australia

1 week ago | afr.com | Tom Rabe |Sumeyya Ilanbey |James Hall

Tom Rabe, Sumeyya Ilanbey and James HallMay 30, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Albanese government is likely to consider developing an east coast gas reservation as part of a sweeping review of the country’s energy system.
No Liberal lifeline for Pesutto as bankruptcy threat enters red zone

1 week ago | afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey

May 29, 2025 – 5.31pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Victorian Liberal Party’s powerful administrative committee is resisting pressure to drag the state division into the messy legal saga between MP Moira Deeming and former leader John Pesutto, despite an imminent threat to send him bankrupt.
first homebuyers stamp duty plan will increase house prices, economists say

1 week ago | afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey

May 27, 2025 – 6.14pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Economists have panned the Victorian opposition for not having a credible plan to repair the state budget, saying its pledge to abolish stamp duty for first homebuyers would drive up house prices and a promise to cut $3 billion worth of taxes would deepen the state’s debt crisis.
Numbers Victoria is relying on to kill debt are at odds with the RBA

1 week ago | afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey

May 26, 2025 – 6.54pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A population boom forecast in the Allan government’s budget last week is contradicted by Reserve Bank and federal Treasury predictions, putting at risk a central plank of Labor’s strategy to pull the state out of its debt crisis.
Zoe Daniel wins request for a recount while Bradfield could end up in court

1 week ago | afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey |Paul Karp

May 26, 2025 – 5.59pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Teal independent Zoe Daniel will get her wish – in part – for an official recount of votes in the Melbourne seat of Goldstein, while Bradfield voters could end up back at the polls as an excruciatingly slim margin in the tightest race of the election slipped by one to seven votes.
It’s not just taxes hurting Victorian businesses, it’s red tape

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey

May 22, 2025 – 5.34pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Peter Angelico says he isn’t your typical whinging business owner. He is sanguine about the taxes he pays – despite thinking it’s probably more than his fair share – saying that hasn’t stopped him from growing the steel manufacturing plant he started in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs more than three decades ago.
Victoria warned to fix ‘punitive’ taxes or face worse housing problems

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey

May 21, 2025 – 7.59pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The property industry is urging the Allan government to reverse “punitive” taxes and red tape stifling new housing supply in Victoria, which has fallen behind Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia.