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OG: Daniel Andrews with his first cabinet in December 2014.

What’s old can be new again in politics. Just ask Jacinta Allan ... and Goethe

New solutions is a buzz phrase littered through Jacinta Allan’s public statements. London to a brick says it will be Labor’s campaign slogan in November.

  • Chip Le Grand

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The first cabinet meeting of the Andrews government in 2014. (Colour digitally altered)

From ‘no extra cost’ to record debt: The 12-year transformation of Victorian Labor

Eight hundred pages of confidential state cabinet documents reveal how a disciplined new Labor government in 2014 evolved into a “crash through” administration – until it struck the unexpected.

  • Royce Millar
Native forest logging was banned in Victoria on January 1, 2024.

Confidential files reveal logging ban push ignored by the Andrews government

Shortly after Daniel Andrews came to power in 2014, his government received a stark warning about the environmental and economic consequences of native forest logging.

  • Royce Millar
Melbourne’s urban fringe is growing faster now than it was when Labor was elected in 2014 and warned of the need for major reforms to cater for population growth within existing suburbs.

Daniel Andrews was warned of a looming housing headache. It took Labor almost a decade to act

Confidential cabinet documents from the early days of the Andrews government reveal the pointed advice it received to deliver major planning reforms.

  • Royce Millar
Then-premier Daniel Andrews and his then-deputy, Jacinta Allan, announce the cancellation of the 2026 Commonwealth Games on July 18, 2023.

Premier, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars is no game

This week, Victoria was supposed to be hosting the Commonwealth Games. Instead, the state is counting the cost of another blunder.

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Robert Goon, Gary Smith and Bill Stolk from the Ballarat Residents and Ratepayers’ Association at the old saleyards.

The Games were supposed to deliver benefits to the regions. But many are still waiting

After the event was scrapped, Daniel Andrews told the regions the promised infrastructure and housing would still arrive. Empty paddocks tell a different story.

  • Rachel Eddie
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Colin Robertson, a self-described amateur detective who has been investigating the crash for almost four years.

‘Bike boy’ campaign accused of giving cash gifts to potential witnesses in case against Daniel Andrews

Court documents say those driving the “bike boy scandal” spent tens of thousands of fundraising money on “gifts” to potential witnesses in lawsuits they lodged on behalf of the young cyclist injured in a 2013 crash.

  • Sherryn Groch
Victoria is now building fewer homes than it was before its 2023 landmark housing statement, casting fresh doubt on the pledge to deliver 800,000 properties over the next decade.

Andrews promised Victoria a record number of homes. Instead, we’re going backwards

Two years into its decade-long building spree, Victoria has fallen far short of its annual target, with current completions lower than anytime in the past 11 years.

  • Daniella White
Former premier Daniel Andrews, left, and Ombudsman Deborah Glass.

There are invisible strings that the powerful use to keep critics at bay

Keeping integrity agencies truly independent is more important than ever. More often than not, they are controlled by the very government the agency is appointed to oversee.

  • Deborah Glass
The CFMEU’s transformation from construction union to crime syndicate was fuelled by an explosion in government spending.

Daniel Andrews couldn’t spend our money fast enough. It is no surprise crooks cashed in

So long as you had a union ticket, the Andrews government was a scoundrel’s dream.

  • Chip Le Grand