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Tas Labor must 'face up to the music' and talk with the Greens
20 Mar 10 | TEMPERATURES are peaking on the campaign trail in Tasmania as Labor scrambles to retain power with a last-minute blast for both the Liberal opposition and the Greens.  | 'No tests' on state water | Last few days of autumn heat
04 Mar 10 | VICTORIA has taken a defiant stand against Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's push to seize majority control of public hospital funding, arguing it would deliver no new cash to local patients for four years and could jeopardise some local health services.   | CommentsComments (1)
02 Mar 10 | PREMIER John Brumby has admitted his government has been "found wanting" on key issues of transport and street violence, just nine months before the state election.   | CommentsComments (1)
Nuclear power advocated
26 Feb 10 | FORMER Victorian government minister Theo Theophanous has used a farewell parliamentary speech to call for the state to consider nuclear power.
Bendigo, Morwell to trial tasers
26 Feb 10 | CHIEF Commissioner Simon Overland has announced that police will trial the use of Tasers for all uniform and traffic officers in Bendigo and Morwell, departing from his position that they should be used only by specialist squads.  | Horse case reaches $300,000 ... | Call for probe on toxic ...
Greens turn Tassie politics upside down
26 Feb 10 | REBECCA White is a web-savvy 27-year-old political adviser, an appealing blonde who doesn't mind being seen in jeans outside a country store, a dusty Hi-Lux her mode of transport. She embodies Tasmanian Labor's hope, and has awoken its fear.  | Hunt for Shepparton attempted ... | VFF constitution change not ...
Add your name to Ausbuy's anti-BSE import petition
25 Feb 10 | AUSTRALIAN-owned advocacy group Ausbuy is calling on members of the public to sign a petition requesting the proposed changes to beef import laws be withdrawn.
22 Feb 10 | PREMIER John Brumby faces a fight in Labor's heartland, where voters fear the ALP will be complacent and apathetic and will ''carry on doing nothing'' if re-elected in November, Greens internal polling has found.
04 Feb 10 | VICTORIA'S electoral umpire has been asked to investigate Labor advertisements attacking Liberal leader Ted Baillieu's role in the sale of public schools by the former Kennett government.   | CommentsComments (1)
Labor targets Baillieu as campaign gets personal
03 Feb 10 | LABOR has launched a personal attack on Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu, accusing him of profiting from the sale of a western suburbs public school under the Kennett government.   | CommentsComments (2) | Baillieu bounds into election ...
Baillieu bounds into election contention
02 Feb 10 | OPPOSITION Leader Ted Baillieu has surged into contention for November's state election, with a new poll showing the Coalition gaining dramatically on John Brumby's government.   | CommentsComments (1)
Govt responds to Tasmanian forest review
29 Jan 10 | THE Federal and Tasmanian governments today announced their response to the second five-yearly review to the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement (RFA).  | Photos: Be part of our ... | The flying doctor: An ...
21 Jan 10 | PREMIER John Brumby has set his cabinet team for November's state election strongly backing heavily criticised Police Minister Bob Cameron and Community Service Minister Lisa Neville.   | CommentsComments (1)
Firemen angry at pipe political 'stunt'
18 Jan 10 | INTERNAL tensions have struck Country Fire Authority crews in some of Victoria's most fire-prone regions, amid concerns the Victorian Government has used brigades as political pawns.  | RFDS ditched as Vic air ambulance | Cooler weather calms the ...
Murray-Darling funding agreed
14 Jan 10 | EIGHTEEN months after the Federal Government first promised $3.7 billion for major water infrastructure projects in the Murray-Darling Basin, it has finally managed to reach agreements with the states on how to deliver this funding.  | Call for recycled water pipeline | Who wants an extra 100mm good ...
RFDS ditched as Vic air ambulance
14 Jan 10 | THE Victorian Government has awarded the contract for air ambulance services to a Sydney company that is the subject of two investigations by Australia's air safety authorities.   | CommentsComments (2)
14 Jan 10 | THIS is the story of a cabinet minister, her hot-shot husband, Labor's most marginal seat and a Liberal attack that suggests this year's state election could turn very nasty.
Blackouts hit state as 100-year mark is reached
13 Jan 10 | CRANKY Melburnians have sweated through the city's equal hottest night on record.   | Bushland owners to fight bid ... | Hottest conditions since Black ...
Labor MPs take aim at Greens
01 Jan 10 | VICTORIAN Labor has lashed out at the Greens, accusing them of siding with climate-change deniers to prevent Australia setting up an emissions trading scheme.
Nats call for mass cull of dirty camels
29 Dec 09 | THE federal opposition is considering declaring a war on camels as part of its climate change policy, arguing that the desert pest is responsible for more emissions than the exhaust of 300,000 cars.  | CommentsComments (1) | Sunbury fireworks show backfires | Drivers 50km/h over limit on ...
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