VICTORIAN STATE ELECTION: Labor defeated, Greens blunted*

Victoria’s state election on November 27 saw the defeat of a radical, secular, left-wing Labor government, the defeat of many politicians who supported abortion decriminalisation, and the blunting of support for the Greens.Following a higher than 6 per cent swing against the Brumby Labor government, the Liberal-Nationals Coalition won 45 seats and Labor 40, with three undecided, in the 88-seat Victorian lower house, at the time of writing. The Greens failed to win their expected first lower hous…

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