Victoria’s Premier Jacinta Allan has dug in and will contest the leadership at Tuesday’s caucus meeting despite having lost the support of her Labor colleagues.Minister for Education and Deputy Premier Ben Carroll has confirmed he will challenge. A successful no-confidence motion against the premier will trigger a six-week-long leadership contest, with the new leader to be determined by a 50-50 vote split between MPs and rank-and-file party members.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Allan’s loss is hopefully the start of Victoria and Australia’s gain
A leadership spill in Melbourne is purely cosmetic without deep economic reform to dismantle union dominance and reckless spending.
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