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Chip Le Grand | The Age

The Age •
October 21, 2026 • 06:00 PM
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Chip Le Grand leads our state politics reporting team. He previously served as the paper’s chief reporter and is a journalist of 30 years’ experience.

Chip Le Grand | The Age

While Ben Carroll said Labor’s proposal is about “being a disruptor” to the exclusive housing market, Jess Wilson told Melbourne Assembly she is sceptical.

There is a certain point when the music stops for all governments. We have been listening to Melburnians and it’s clear that there’s a shift under way.

Premier Ben Carroll will announce 25,000 new homes will be built for first-time buyers, with the proposed sites spanning Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and Latrobe.

Opposition Leader Jess Wilson, who has promised to repeal Victoria’s treaty laws, is being buffeted in her seat of Kew from both sides of the debate.

Businessman Paul Bassat says Victorians are ready to have a serious discussion about government debt. Are our political leaders up for it?

The Coalition spent years waiting to carve up Breakthrough Victoria. Before it could sharpen the knife, the government filleted its own bird.

Less than seven weeks from the state election, the Liberal Party has dumped its candidate for a key marginal seat.

With seven weeks until polling day, the latest Resolve Political Monitor shows the state election is being waged on the Coalition’s favoured political ground.

Opposition leader Jess Wilson is promising to pay for more elective surgeries by winding up the state’s investment company. But the sums don’t add up.

Victorians reckon the two-party system is a thing of the past. Ahead of the state election, Jess Wilson and Ben Carroll are trying to come to terms with what the future may hold.

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