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3 days, 15 hours ago

New taxes as ministers continue to spend

This is one of those days when up on Spring Street the Government must be wishing things didn't happen at the same time. It's July 1. Start of the new financial year. Various things kick in. Federally, we get some income tax cuts but at a state level it's time ... Derryn Hinch - 5:51 p.m. Wednesday 1st July 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Simon & Garfunkel reach out for bushfire victims

Having wowed audiences across their country with their first visit down under in 30 years, esteemed US folk duo Simon & Garfunkel paid back the love yesterday, surprising fans in the Yarra Valley outside Melbourne, where they performed for victims of the recent bushfires. Raising $660,000 for bushfire victims, the ... BigPond Music - News - 5:43 p.m. Wednesday 1st July 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Territory and Victorian Leaders Visit Tracy Exhibition

Chief Minister Paul Henderson today hosted Victorian Premier John Brumby during a visit to the Cyclone Tracy exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT). "The exhibition demonstrates just what a remarkable recovery Darwin and the Territory have made since that terrible tragedy in 1974," Mr ... Northern Territory Government - 1:33 p.m. Wednesday 1st July 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

4 days, 15 hours ago

Brumby shrugs off poll result

Victorian Premier John Brumby has shrugged off a small slip in the polls, instead turning the heat on the state opposition's performance. Sky News Politics - 5:19 p.m. Tuesday 30th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

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Hands off our health system says Brumby

Victorian Premier John Brumby says he will never support a federal takeover of state hospitals. Sky News Business - 3:19 p.m. Tuesday 30th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

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Crash T-junction lights 'not priority'

Victorian Premier John Brumby said installing traffic lights at the intersection where four teenagers died at the weekend in a horrific crash wasn't a priority despite warnings over seven years from the local council that the T-junction was unsafe The Australian - The Nation - 2:12 p.m. Tuesday 30th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Newspoll: 56-44 to Labor in Victoria

The latest bi-monthly Victorian Newspoll shows the state Labor government losing some of the support it attracted in the wake of the February bushfires, while still retaining a commanding lead. The two-party figure May-June is 56-44, down from an unsustainable 60-40 in January-February (evidently there was no poll in the ... The Poll Bludger - 4:43 a.m. Tuesday 30th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Poll shows a Premier for all seasons

IN posting another strong lead in Newspoll, John Brumby has defied his critics and proven himself truly a man for all seasons. The Australian - opinion - midnight Tuesday 30th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Brumby slips but still way in front

JOHN Brumby has lost some of his post-bushfire gloss, but maintains a resounding lead on his Coalition rivals. The Australian - The Nation - midnight Tuesday 30th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

1 week ago

'Please explain' over train boss - Libs

The state opposition has demanded Premier John Brumby explain why the new boss of Melbourne's train system also led a transport company that went bust in the UK. Sky News Business - 4:06 p.m. Saturday 27th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Brumby in preselection showdown

JOHN Brumby faces an awkward political choice in deciding whether to crush an insurrection within his party over preselections. Fresh feuding has broken out, withmilitant unions and axed warlord George Seitz putting up a series of rogue challengers to at least 10 state Labor MPs, including two ministers. The Australian - 12:15 a.m. Saturday 27th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

1 week, 2 days ago

'Revenge' behind rogue challenges

THE ALP in Victoria has been thrown into disarray by a series of rogue preselection challenges to sitting members and ministers, and Premier John Brumby is under pressure to intervene. The Australian - 1:10 a.m. Friday 26th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

1 week, 2 days ago

Mullett perjury charges dropped

Perjury charges against the former secretary of Victoria's Police Association have been dropped after the Victorian DPP decided there was insufficient evidence to get a conviction. Mr Mullett has demanded that a string of public officers, including the Victorian Premier John Brumby and police chief commissioner Simon Overland, apologise to ... PM - 6:30 p.m. Thursday 25th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Derailed. Connex loses contract

Connex has been stripped of its contract to operate Melbourne's train system, with Hong Kong company Metro Trains Melbourne to take its place. The city's trams will also have a new operator with Keolis Downer EDI ousting the incumbent Yarra Trams as the government's preferred tenderer. The decision to oust ... 3AW.com.au - 11:41 a.m. Thursday 25th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Keolis Downer EDI wins Melbourne's tram tender

Victoria's Premier John Brumby says KDR has been selected after an exhaustive tender process and evaluation, with its bid representing the best value for Victorian taxpayers. He says KDR's bid ... Australasian Bus and Coach News - 11:29 a.m. Thursday 25th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

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