Victoria votes

Saturday Nov 26

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Victoria’s long, chaotic and controversial election season is finally at an end. Crikey was on the ground throughout the campaign, offering readers interrogative coverage, interviews, and explainers on a variety of issues. Here are some highlights in a special election-themed Weekender.

Guy Rundle conducted an autopsy on the Victorian Liberals, Cam Wilson and Bernard Keane delved into the extremism that has plagued the past few months, and Charlie Lewis has been on the road with candidates at forums and pre-polling booths. Meanwhile Crikey‘s new reporter Maeve McGregor has been scrupulously documenting how each party is scoring on major policy issues.

Read these stories and plenty more below.

We hope you’re having a wonderful weekend,

Gina Rushton,
News editor

Victoria’s Liberal Party was invaded by the margins, and now it lies in ruins

GUY RUNDLE

Politically, organisationally and morally, Victoria's Liberal Party is unfit to take power and hold office. Which is unlikely to happen anyway.

Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy... or is it 'Matt Guy'? (Image: AAP/Diego Fedele)

A song and dance in the tightest seat in the state

CHARLIE LEWIS

Hastings is on a margin of less than 0.1%. On one side for the Libs, polished Briony Hutton. On the other, actor Paul Mercurio (yes that one).

Liberal candidate for Hastings Briony Hutton (Image: AAP/Diego Fedele)

Explainer corner

Crikey’s cheat-sheet guide to the Victorian election. Today: health

MAEVE MCGREGOR

Next up in Crikey's Victorian election explainer series: will Victoria's health crises sway voters on election day?

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas. (Image: AAP/Joel Carrett)

Crikey’s cheat-sheet guide to the Victorian election. Today: transport infrastructure

MAEVE MCGREGOR

Daniel Andrews has bet the farm on the massive Suburban Rail Loop project, despite questions over its viability and cost. Meanwhile the opposition is offering... nothing much.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews (Image: AAP/Diego Fedele)

Crikey’s cheat-sheet guide to the Victorian election. Today: education

MAEVE MCGREGOR

Even after Saturday's poll the state's public schools will continue to languish as the country's most underfunded and underprivileged.

(Image: Unsplash/Nicole Honeywill)

Andrews is right — we’re sliding toward a more violent, extreme US political culture

BERNARD KEANE

The drift toward more violent, US-style political rhetoric will be hard to turn around, especially when a major party is behind much of it.

(Image: Mitchell Squire/Private Media)

Victorian Liberals preference anti-Semitic, white supremacist candidate ahead of Labor

CAM WILSON

As the Victorian Liberals attacked Daniel Andrews for claiming they were preferencing Nazis, an anti-Semitic candidate retweeted the premier, saying 'Not talking about me now is he #Flattered'.

Independent candidate Tylere Baker-Pearce taking a selfie at a Holocaust concentration camp / a screenshot of Baker-Pearce from a neo-Nazi online group (Image: Supplied)

‘Red mist’, stolen election claims and an arrest: Victoria’s election campaign takes a dark turn

CAM WILSON

The Victorian Liberal Party has hit out at claims it is preferencing 'Nazis', as the party's own candidates are under increasing scrutiny for extreme views and associations.

Daniel Jones appearing in a video posted by Freedom Party leader Morgan C Jonas/Dr Catherine Cumming speaking about turning Dan Andrews into a "red mist" (Image: Facebook/Morgan C Jonas, Twitter/@sos149)

‘We’re doomed’: Dan Andrews’ Sky News debate triumph disappoints conservatives

TOM RAVLIC

Only four votes separated Dan Andrews and Matthew Guy after the Sky News debate, but conservative pundits were unimpressed with the Victorian Liberal leader's form.

Daniel Andrews and Matthew Guy during the Sky News debate (Image: Sky News/YouTube)

Politics, deep fried

Morsels from a perfectly cooked election campaign (part one)

CHARLIE LEWIS

The Victorian election has served up so much tasty content, we're having to split our wrap into two parts.

Dan Andrews and Matthew Guy (Image: AAP/Julian Smith)

Morsels from a perfectly cooked election campaign (part two)

MAEVE MCGREGOR

There's a lot of terms you could use to describe the wild 2022 Victorian election campaign, some more publishable than others. Read part two of Crikey's mammoth wrap-up.

Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy (Image: AAP/Joel Carrett)

An interview with Sophie Torney, the new teal at the front of the Kew

CHARLIE LEWIS

Charlie Lewis speaks to the independent candidate for Kew, and discusses working collaboratively with others and saving Australia's native forests.

(Image: Zennie/Private Media)

Here’s how Victoria’s political parties have been trying to win your vote on Facebook this election

JULIA BERGIN

There are few standout ads, but the Liberals' campaign appears to be doing more than Labor’s.

(Image: Zennie/Private Media)

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