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Rachel Eddie

Rachel Eddie

Rachel Eddie is a Victorian state political reporter for The Age. Contact her at rachel.eddie@theage.com.au, rachel.eddie@protonmail.com, or via Signal at @RachelEddie.99

Jacinta Allan has told MPs to prepare for a cabinet reshuffle next week.

Allan to take new-look cabinet to November election as reshuffle looms

Labor MPs have been told to be ready for a meeting early next week, amid expectations there will be a vote on cabinet vacancies following several planned retirements.

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The Liberal Party is campaigning against One Nation in the Nepean byelection.

Orange is the new blue: Liberals take on One Nation with ‘desperate’ flyers

The Liberal Party is directly confronting the threat posed by One Nation in the Nepean byelection, in a preview of their strategy to combat the minor party’s rising popularity.

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Liberal MP Moira Deeming (centre) leaving Liberal Party headquarters on Sunday.

Deeming last candidate standing after further preselection chaos

At noon on Thursday, there were four candidates seeking Liberal Party preselection for an upper house seat representing Melbourne’s west. By the end of the day, there was only one.

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Moira Deeming and husband Andrew after they left party headquarters on Sunday.

How the Moira Deeming preselection debacle reopened deep party wounds

The preselection battle between Moira Deeming and Dinesh Gourisetty was for months dogged by accusations of branch stacking and suspicions of an anti-Deeming conspiracy at work.

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Dinesh Gourisetty arrives at Liberal Party HQ before being preselected.

Moira Deeming gets second chance in re-run preselection

The Liberal Party will be forced to run its preselection again after it was revealed Deeming’s victor wrote a character reference for a friend who groomed and sexually assaulted a child.

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Moira Deeming made a bizarre claim during the treaty debate.

Moira Deeming dumped: MP loses Liberal preselection battle

Deeming quickly left the party’s headquarters without comment on Sunday after losing the hard-fought ballot, fuelling speculation she could defect to One Nation or the Libertarians.

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Liberal MP Bev McArthur with Susanne Marro, who has dropped out of the race to be a candidate for the party in November’s state election.

McArthur’s factional ally quits amid reported links to online neo-Nazi content

Western District farmer Susanne Marro has withdrawn from a Liberal preselection battle after the party was alerted to allegedly troubling activity on her social media.

  • Rachel Eddie and Chip Le Grand
Liberal MP Ann-Marie Hermans and been relegated to second spot on the Liberals’ South Eastern Metropolitan upper house ticket.

Conservative Liberal MP rolled for top spot amid fiery preselection battles

A tense round of Liberal preselection contests kicked off this weekend, amid the ongoing threat from One Nation.

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Jacinta Allan warmly greets King Frederik and Queen Mary of Denmark.

Jacinta Allan is in a battle royale to keep her job

With a recent poll showing only one in five people see her as their preferred premier, Jacinta Allan’s leadership is looking increasingly vulnerable.

  • Chip Le Grand, Rachel Eddie and Daniella White
Premier Jacinta Allan has rebuffed renewed speculation about her leadership.

Allan rejects leadership speculation as ‘scallywag gossip’ as MPs publicly back leader

Premier Jacinta Allan and a conga line of Labor MPs have dismissed speculative reports of a possible leadership challenge before the state election.

  • Chip Le Grand, Rachel Eddie and Daniella White