The Latest Breaking News from Tim Smith

And sure enough, Tim Smith popped up to roast him.

There was a stark contrast between Daniel Andrews and Matthew Guy when they hit the hustings

Hawthorn and Kew seen as vital seats for the Victorian Liberals, still reeling from their federal election rout

In a now-deleted tweet, the former opposition attorney-general recently tarred 3AW’s Neil Mitchell as an ‘awful, duplicitous, hateful individual’. Oh Tim, how we’ll miss you.

Liberal Bridget Archer has told the government it’s okay to consider dropping the stage three tax cuts, and Victorian MP Tim Smith is claiming a $400-a-week parliamentary car allowance even though he’s been banned from driving.

Fed up with what they saw as inaction by policymakers, three climate change scientists called on their colleagues to withdraw from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reporting process.

Single yellow rose placed on former minister’s seat in upper house while family look on

Politicians in parties with dwindling memberships and captains’ picks try to paint the policy culmination of years of consensus building as ‘elitist’.

Almost a million Australians tuned in to see Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Guy Pearce join in the send-off. Plus: Chris Kenny’s ABC documentary falls flat

He threatened to send the young journo Leonardo Puglisi a letter.

Good morning, early birds. Unvaccinated teachers will be back in classrooms in Victoria next week, and a former senior executive has accused Australia’s largest philanthropic journalism fund of “a lack of transparency” about how grants were awarded. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.