Second from backside of the desk got here a crew from ABC Melbourne, and this regardless of having their colleague, state political reporter Richard Willingham – whose dulcet tones shall be more and more acquainted to Radio Melbourne listeners – as MC and quizmaster.
Fats lot of fine he did them. Now, we weren’t going to say this, trustworthy we weren’t, however whereas we’re on the topic; first prize on the night time was taken out by a crew from The Age. Now, CBD couldn’t be prouder to have such brainy colleagues, if just for having the smarts to go away us off the crew.
WOOF CROWD
We introduced phrase final week that the shut relationship between Anthony Albanese’s Labor authorities and the general public sector union, the CPSU, had pushed some members into open riot.
However issues should not so cosy proper now between the union’s Victorian’s department and Jacinta Allan’s state Labor operation, with the CPSU among the many labor and enterprise teams cracking the whatsits with the federal government’s modifications to WorkCover which it pushed by the parliament’s decrease home final week.
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One exasperated union kind described as “gold” the irony of Labor MPs campaigning for Sprite, a canine, to keep up its parliamentary entry due to the psychological well being advantages the animal delivered to these working within the constructing, whereas voting to chop advantages from hundreds of workers unable to work due to burnout and stress.
“The tail wagging the canine,” outdated mate reckons. We requested Allan on Sunday whether or not he had some extent.
“It could be deeply mischievous to conflate these two points,” the Premier mentioned. That’s in all probability why it appealed to us a lot.
SEAT SUCCESS
Former Liberal MP for the previous jewel-in-the-Liberal-crown seat of Higgins, Katie Allen has gained the fitting to tackle Labor’s Michelle Ananda-Rajah in a rematch of final 12 months’s electoral contest within the upper-crust internal south-east seat that resulted within the ALP ending a long time of Liberal dominance.
Allen noticed off a problem from former Port Phillip Council Mayor Marcus Pearl in a preselection poll at Hawthorn City Corridor on Sunday afternoon.
Katie Allen will get the possibility to win again Higgins.Credit score: Eddie Jim
Pearl was in respectable spirits although once we caught up with him after the vote. “I felt it was shut, nevertheless it wasn’t shut sufficient,” he instructed us.
Allen warned CBD to organize to listen to so much from her as she launches full-time into the duty of profitable again the seat.
Elsewhere, Monash councillor Theo Zographos was nominated unopposed earlier this month to run for the Liberals in Chisholm, one other seat they wouldn’t thoughts coming back from Labor. His candidacy is simply ready to be ticked off by the get together’s administrative committee.
Teal candidate Zoe Daniel beat incumbent Tim Wilson within the blue ribbon Liberal seat of Goldstein on the final election.Credit score: Chris Hopkins
However then there’s Goldstein, one other one of many painful Liberal losses of 2022, which fell to ‘teal’ impartial Zoe Daniel and the place the crushed Liberal Tim Wilson has made no secret of his want for a re-match with the previous ABC journo.
Does the get together’s management share Wilson’s confidence? The powers that be don’t appear to be in any hurry to shut nominations, which have been open for months and discuss that state MP for Brighton James Newbury is , simply gained’t go away.
We couldn’t observe down Newbury on Sunday for a remark – ever get that feeling you’re being ghosted? – and neither Wilson, nor one of many different Liberal figures who’ve been linked with the seat, Colleen Harkin, whereas former Julie Bishop staffer Stephanie Hunt gave us a agency no-comment.
However a tilt at Goldstein carries dangers for Newbury; he’d have to surrender his seat in Spring Avenue and his spot on John Pesutto’s entrance bench with no assure even of preselection, a lot much less knocking over the first-term incumbent Daniel.
Nonetheless, the possibility to return to the federal parliament, the place Newbury spent glad years as a staffer in John Howard’s authorities, is claimed to be a robust temptation for the Brighton second-termer.
So many questions, proper, so we gave the get together’s state president Phil Davis a shout, asking when he and his colleagues is likely to be desirous about bringing all this to a vote.
He was a bit extra forthcoming than the others. Simply. “I’ve nothing to say,” Davis instructed us.
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