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PM says opposition leader’s claim that climate aid is ‘giving away’ Australians’ money boosts re-election chances of independents and Greens over Liberals

By rights, Victorians marking their ballot papers in the 2022 election this week should be casting judgment on the unprecedented emergency powers enforced during the COVID-19 crisis, while also evaluating the health, education and economic policies put forward in Australia’s second-most-populous state.

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A relative of Victorian Labor candidate Lauren O'Dwyer, who has described herself as a "proud Yorta Yorta woman" and is running in the seat of Richmond at Saturday's state election, says their family has no Indigenous ancestry.

There are now just five days until the last day of voting in the Victorian state election.

Only half the promised funding has been allocated.

Middle-aged white men lead Victoria's major parties as a decades-long wait goes on for an answer to Joan Kirner, the state's first and only female premier.

Safe seats are more likely to lack social infrastructure such as libraries, childcare and sports facilities, researchers say

With the Albanese government now at its six months mark and the end of the parliamentary year fast approaching, it’s tick-off time.

As Saturday’s state election inches nearer, that is now suggesting a more complicated election than earlier polling suggested.

Labor attempting to link saga to NSW premier, who was treasurer at the time of Stephen Cartwright’s appointment to senior trade job