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Property developer John Woodman plied suburban councillors with hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for support of his lucrative projects and bankrolled Victorian MPs and candidates in a bid to win planning approvals, a damning report from the state's anti-corruption watchdog has found.

 

Legal experts have called for the evidence collected by the special investigative office set up to investigate the Lawyer X scandal to be referred to an interstate prosecutor, saying lack of transparency could give rise to questions about perceived conflict of interest.

 

Legal experts have called for the evidence collected by the special investigative office set up to investigate the Lawyer X scandal to be referred to an interstate prosecutor, saying lack of transparency could give rise to questions about perceived conflict of interest.

 

The Labor Party won’t field a candidate for next month’s byelection in Warrandyte, in Melbourne’s northeast, handing a significant boost to the Liberals’ winning odds and Opposition Leader John Pesutto’s leadership.

 

State and territory governments are not being held accountable for failing to meet Closing the Gap targets and in some cases are actively exacerbating disadvantage, a Productivity Commission report finds.

 

Melbourne public housing tower residents will receive compensation payments of about $2,200 each from the Victorian government after they were forced into a sudden hard lockdown during a COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.

 

Calls for special deal to be struck for NT, which has biggest funding gap between public and private schools

 

Australia’s Department of Home Affairs oversaw the payment of millions of taxpayer dollars to powerful Pacific Island politicians through a chain of suspect contracts.

 

Disquiet points to jockeying among jurisdictions and impatience over the rollout of renewables

 

Labor’s Environment Action Network says draft national platform ‘very, very weak’ on opposing native forest logging and land clearing

 

Thirty-eight of Victoria's most eminent legal practitioners have signed a letter condemning the comments of Premier Daniel Andrews and calling for a public apology following the closure of the special investigative office set up to probe the Lawyer X scandal.

 

Residential land acquired for level-crossing removals in Melbourne’s south-east being prepared for sale

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