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Labor fund-raising arm to be reborn under new name amid IBAC scrutiny
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Victorian Labor’s lucrative fund-raising vehicle Progressive Business is closing down, with the Andrews government’s tough donation laws and probing by the state’s anti-corruption commission making its cash-for-access model unworkable.
But documents filed with the state government reveal the controversial entity is to be reborn as Energise Victoria, a money spinner still associated with Labor and other progressive causes and a likely test for the new electoral rules.
Daniel Andrews has been a prominent figure at Progressive Business functions over the last 20 years
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Whoâs going to take Eddieâs hot seat?
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The racism controversy engulfing Collingwood Football Club and outgoing president
Eddie McGuire is a fiasco and is concentrating minds on who might replace him. McGuire announced he would depart Collingwood after 23 seasons at the end of 2021. Letâs see if he lasts that long.
Eddie Maguire and Christine Holgate.
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John Wylie, who finished up after eight years at the Australian Sports Commission last year, is mentioned as a potential successor. So it was fascinating to see Wylieâs investment business Tanarra touted as potential buyer of Tabcorpâs $3 billion wagering business because owning a stake in a gaming company is incompatible with presiding over a football club. The optics, for one.
Murnainâs happy news amid the long wait for ICAC report
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Itâs been almost 18 months since NSW Laborâs former general secretary
Kaila Murnain sensationally quit her post after an Independent Commission Against Corruption probe catapulted Aldi shopping bags into political consciousness and lifted the lid on her role hiding a $100,000 illegal donation made by Chinese billionaire
Huang Xiangmo.
The NSW Labor lifer - she joined at 15 - was the most powerful of Sussex Street operators. That was until the August 2019 ICAC hearing heard Murnain had told Labor colleague
Kenrick Cheah to âbe carefulâ with an Aldi shopping bag stuffed with $100,000 in cash donated by Yuhu property developer Xiangmo.