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A leadbeater possum, pictured at Healesville Sanctuary.

Bailout backing was offered to Zoos Victoria a year before job cuts

The Allan government offered to provide bailout guarantees for Zoos Victoria, 12 months before the organisation announced plans to axe an estimated 70 roles.

  • Bianca Hall

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The Melbourne Demons are eyeing a potential move to Caulfield Racecourse.

Caulfield told to seal Dees deal on racecourse relocation

A month after Melbourne sacked its chief executive, its plan to move to Caulfield appears to be back on track, with a key state government minister intervening in the negotiations.

  • Bridget McArthur and Kieran Rooney
Matthew Wright (far right) is leading a campaign to make public transport permanently free in Victoria, with help from his niece Maya Wright (middle right) and fellow advocates Andrea Bunting (far left) and Dave Holmes (middle left).

Victorians enjoyed a free ride for two months. That ends on Monday

After two months, public transport is going to cost us money again. But some are making the case to make it free forever.

  • Bridget McArthur
The lottery licence deal was unveiled on budget day.

Victoria’s secret lotto licence extension to be probed by auditor-general

The investigation will focus on whether the secretive process was good value for taxpayers and a competitive process.

  • Kieran Rooney
Opposition Leader Jess Wilson says Labor is “borrowing from our future to pay for today”.

Political war erupts over holes dotting Coalition’s path to cash surplus

Opposition Leader Jess Wilson used her budget reply speech to accuse the government of a “desperate and deluded scare campaign”, amid doubts over how she would reach her 2032 target.

  • Daniella White and Kieran Rooney
The circular economy was one of the five key areas to be targeted by the now abandoned fund.

$20m fund to turbocharge future industries binned without awarding any grants

The state government quietly discontinued the investment fund – targeted at priority sectors including the circular economy – in last week’s budget.

  • Kieran Rooney
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Treasurer Jaclyn Symes on budget day.

Labor promised ‘our finances will stay strong’. What went wrong?

This week’s Victorian budget revealed a debt bill heading rapidly towards $200 billion. It was a far cry from the fiscal strategy the government once boasted about.

  • Patrick Hatch and Daniella White
Opposition Leader Jess Wilson will unveil her proposed hiring freeze in a major speech on Friday.

Wilson to slash public service in $22 billion budget repair plan

In her first substantive reply to this week’s state budget, Opposition Leader Jess Wilson has vowed to shrink Victoria’s swollen bureaucracy.

  • Chip Le Grand
Victorian Treasurer Jaclyn Symes.

The key assumption in the Victorian budget that has economists worried

Treasurer Jaclyn Symes insists the budget and the assumptions underpinning it are conservative, despite Treasury’s recent history of overly optimistic forecasts.

  • Daniella White, Patrick Hatch and Kieran Rooney
Victoria’s integrity agencies have expressed their disappointment about their funding allocations in the budget handed down by Treasurer Jaclyn Symes on Tuesday.

Budget squeeze forces integrity agencies to shelve investigations

IBAC chief Alison Byrne and Ombudsman Marlo Baragwanath say their agencies are not getting enough money from the government to balance their books – or do their jobs.

  • Chip Le Grand