Victoria
Most liveable city's heritage under threat from Crown skyscraper

Plans to build Australia's tallest skyscraper in Melbourne will overshadow the Shrine of Rememb ...  
Post-Truth media muddies the CFA dispute

Time for the media to stop peddling lies by politicians and adopt The New York Times' solution.  
Victorian Government leads the way with healthy reform of the EPA

Amongst other wise reforms, Victoria will protect lives by bringing health expertise into the ...  
EXCLUSIVE: Did the Easey Street murderer call Tess Lawrence?

A personal account of the Easey Street murder case including a chilling anonymous phone call — ...  
Wedge proofing our fire services: A solution to the CFA dispute

A return to the geographical and bureaucratic split between urban professional and rural ...  
Stop bullying firefighters, please!

A recent review of the mental health of firefighters in the MFB has prompted one firefighter to ...  
Gina bullying taxpayers won't solve Victoria’s gas shortage

Rinehart, Bolt et al can blame the Andrews Government but it won't bring back Victoria's already ...  
CFA dispute: Managerialism and the anti-union mainstream media

Why has The Age promoted an anti-union view in its coverage of the Victorian firefighters' atte ...  
Farming versus mining: Is the Andrews Government the new "country" party?

Abandoned by the Coalition's misinformation on coal seam gas, Victorian farmers have found a new ...  
In defence of the Melbourne Cup

John Passant discusses the welcome release from workaday drudgery that the Melbourne Cup event ...  
How Esso steals Victoria's water due to the hidden impacts of gas exploration

Gippsland farmer and community mining activist, Tracey Anton, investigates the hazards and hidden ...  
Fairfax revenge: The Age attacks — and airs its political bias in Melbourne Ports

A dispute over the erection of campaign bunting and corflutes on the eve of a Federal election is ...  
Brown coal's bleak future as Victorian Labor joins other Labor states to ramp up #renewables

Victorian Labor joins Labor states of SA, ACT and Qld in trumping the Turnbull Government on ...  
Sophie Mirabella's fistful of dollars

The Sophie Mirabella bribe scandal shows up the tenuous nature of Australia's democracy, writes ...  
'Harmless?' There's nothing harmless about nuclear waste

Terms like ‘harmless’ waste are misleading and downplay the seriousness of the problem with ...  
After Duckgate: The Liberal Party goes back to the future in Dunkley

As a crisis and scandal ridden Liberal Party struggles to put our fires in so many different ...  
Melbourne’s storm in a port is derailing freight

The deferment of a rail project entangled with the Victorian Government’s vexed plans to priv ...  
East West Link's miserable planning process

Monash University's Professor Graeme Hodge sends up two cheers for a resolution of the East-West ...  

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