#napthine

East West Link: its future should be decided democratically

In only five weeks the Napthine government will go into caretaker mode. Yet Mondays cabinet meeting will consider approving the contract for the $8bn first stage of the East West Link. This is despite a series of major issues that remain unresolved with no final design, no decision on the level of tolls and doubts over the planning approval.

The true issue is how Napthine has kept buried all details of the East West Link

This idea that you can stick an incoming government with an $8 billion bill just weeks before an election is a bit rich.

Geoff Shaw saga demands an apology from all parties for gross opportunism

Before I begin, I wish to apologise for this story. Sincerely. Genuinely. I shouldnt be writing it. You shouldnt be reading it. But sometimes we have to go through the motions, and thats what the Victorian parliament did on Thursday when the Napthine government tried, and failed, to expel the independent MP Geoff Shaw from parliament for not being sincerely sorry. Labor wanted to remove Shaw in…

Denis Napthine moves to expel Geoff Shaw from Victorian parliament

Victorian premier Denis Napthine is moving to have independent MP Geoff Shaw expelled from parliament. Shaw served an 11-day suspension from the parliament over misuse of his entitlements, and returned on Tuesday to give a required apology to the house.

Geoff Shaw has himself to blame if expelled from Victorian parliament, says Napthine

If the Victorian parliament votes to expel rogue independent MP Geoff Shaw on Thursday, he will have been the author of his own demise, Liberal premier Denis Napthine said. With eight sitting days left in parliament, Napthine moved to have the member for Frankston and former Liberal MP expelled, saying the apology he delivered to the house for abusing his parliamentary privileges on Tuesday made…

Rebel MP Geoff Shaw apologises to Victorian parliament

Geoff Shaw, the renegade balance-of-power MP suspended from Victorian parliament for abusing his parliamentary vehicle and fuel card, delivered his long-awaited apology to Victorian parliament on Tuesday. Liberal premier Denis Napthine had warned Shaw that he either make a genuine apology by a deadline of 2 September, as outlined by a motion passed by government in June, or be expelled.

Napthine government accused of 25 attacks on clean energy

Report highlights what it describes as the Victorian Coalition Government’s “systematic campaign” against renewable energy and climate policies.

Napthines Coalition government set for Victorian election defeat, Newspoll shows

Victorias Coalition government is on course for a comprehensive defeat in the November state election, which would make it the first one-term government since 1955, according to a new poll. The Liberal partys primary vote is just 32%, with a combined Coalition total of 35%, according to Newspoll. This is 10% down on the Coalitions support in 2010.