👤 Chip Le Grand

2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Royal commission hints at original sin of Big Build

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2026-11-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Airport rail study was doctored to ensure Sunshine ‘won’ shortlist of routes, commission told

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2026-09-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog finally has teeth. These are its new powers

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2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Labor plans to make North Melbourne a first-home buyer haven. The Coalition has other ideas

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2026-10-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Treaty is on the ballot in the Victorian election. Whatever the outcome, it cannot be unmade

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2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Wilson is gaining economic traction as Carroll’s popularity takes a further dive

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2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Just as importantly, Commissioner Chris Kourakis has signalled his willingness to stand back and interrogate some bigger, long-overdue questions about how we got here. assertive

2026-09-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Victoria will finally have an anti-corruption watchdog with the authority and powers it needs to do its job after the parliament on its last sitting day before the state election agreed to the most substantial changes to IBAC since its inception. assertive

2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Had they done so, Guy would have probably been less scornful in his appraisal of the need for a new train station at Keilor East when he was questioned about it, by this reporter, shortly after Labor’s announcement. assertive

2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 He declared it his personal mission to rebuild Australia’s relationship with its Jewish people so that no young Jew could doubt whether they belonged here. assertive

2026-10-10 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 When Premier Ben Carroll was on Monday asked if he would accept the support of Greens MPs in parliament if it meant staying in power after November’s state election, he said he’d throw the keys back. assertive

2026-10-11 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Under Wilson’s SurgerySooner pledge, a Coalition government would use public funds to pay for an additional 25,000 elective surgeries in private hospitals over the next four years at no cost to patients. assertive

2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 While these numbers, if replicated on November 28, would almost certainly deliver a change of government, it is less clear whether the Coalition would be able to form a majority government without the help of One Nation or another minor party. assertive

2026-10-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 According to Victoria’s Parliamentary Budget Office, dismantling the entire statutory framework associated with treaty would save the state’s budget $247.8 million over the four years of the next government. assertive

2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The government will on Thursday announce that the Arden Central renewal project in North Melbourne will be reserved almost exclusively for first-home buyers, with 74 per cent (4000 of 5400) of the planned new dwellings to be set aside for people trying to enter the market. assertive

2026-11-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The group’s brief, according to the submission, was to study four shortlisted routes for the Melbourne Airport Rail Link (MARL) and build evidence supporting the state government’s politically favoured outcome – that the new train line, if ever built, would have to go through Sunshine. assertive