Post-Budget Edition

16 April – 22 May 2012

HEADLINES

• Moody’s gives Victorian Budget tick
• Fines up with Budget
• State revenues down
• TAFE funding features in Budget
• Rural councils with thin finance
• Former minister Bronwyn Pike resigns
• HealthSMART out
• CenITex down but not out

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Pre-Budget Edition

13 March – 15 April 2012

HEADLINES

• Teachers could strike
• Myki rush
• Brown coal opportunities
• Planning changes
• State asset sales, maybe
• Doyle to run again
• CenITex review
• Vegie market move slow
• Move smoking rules, maybe
• Building Commission review
• New Metropolitan transport head
• The Geelong Train

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Port Edition

6 February – 12 March 2012

HEADLINES

• Hulls retires
• Premier’s new COS
• Merlino leads Opposition
• Ministerial conduct code
• Nurses call a truce
• Those floods in the North
• A plan for ‘Manhattan on the Yarra’
• Premier to India. India elsewhere
• Farm export boom
• Dark clouds over the economy
• Our Alcoa
• QM 2 in town
• Port charges being finessed
• Grand Prix, hopefully

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New Year Edition

7 December 2011 – 5 February 2012

HEADLINES

• Public service job cuts
• State Budget will be tight
• Victoria/NSW to work together, yet still some rivalry
• Premier has new Chief of Staff
• Cattlemen still riding for High Country
• Smart meters all Go
• Wind Farms… No real gale
• Premier on The India trip
• Victorian industry assistance changes
• Nurses fight
• Myki full speed ahead
• Airport parking better…

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Creative Melbourne Edition

9 October –  5 November 2011

HEADLINES

• Creative Melbourne
• Vocational Learning funding pressure
• ICAC (anti-corruption com- mission) on way
• Fund raising protocols at last
• New suburban water rules, plus
• Queen Elizabeth in Melbourne
• Melbourne Occupied
• Manhattanizing Melbourne
• Behind the scenes on Overland
• Police IT not brilliant
• Police pay up

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Hey Hey! Events of interest

The inaugural Deakin Policy Forum breakfast.

An Invitation from Deakin University: The State of the Economic Policy Debate

When: Thursday 2 December 2011

More details (PDF).