General reminder - politicians are not your friends and should be held to account and criticised when they fall short. Doing so is not an endorsement of anyone else or another party. You should want your politicians to learn, to be better and work towards solutions.

Preferred Victorian Labor leader [if the party changed leader from Jacinta Allan] 🟥 Ben Carroll: 21% 🟥 Danny Pearson: 8% 🟥 Lily D'Ambrosio: 8% 🟥 Gabrielle Williams: 8% 🟥 Mary-Anne Thomas: 4% ⬛️ Someone else: 4% ⬜️ Unsure: 47% Freshwater | 5-8 Jun | n=1034

Sexism just has no place in our political debate, full stop. A billboard truck using sexist language has been driving around Melbourne as part of a secret and well-funded political campaign. People are entitled to disagree with me. That’s democracy. But I care that this attacks women. And I care about who’s next. The political debate in this country has become corrosive over the last few years. So much so that behaviour which would once have been condemned is now just another part of life. Media don’t call it out. They report on this like it’s fair game, like it’s normal. But nothing about this is normal. If you don’t take a stand against this creeping culture, it has a tendency of taking over. You only have to look at America to know that. I cannot stand back and let Victoria become a place where this sort of language is fair game against any woman at work - or any woman in leadership. If we don’t draw a line, the line will keep moving. At the end of the day, I just want my kids to grow up knowing that women deserve the same respect as men. I want girls to know that they should never need to aim lower just to feel safer. And I want boys to know that they don’t have to put women ‘in their place’ to make their own way in the world. Sexism hurts everyone. If the media won’t call out it, I will.

Victoria’s new donation laws to be rushed through lower house by 7pm today.

BREAKING: In the past hour, the premier has announced new powers for Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog. Jacinta Allan says IBAC will have retrospective ability to “follow the money”.

Australia should be a country where hard work, not what you inherit, gets you ahead in life.

A teenage boy has been stabbed during a brawl at Highpoint Shopping Centre. Police were called to the centre in Maribyrnong around 7pm last night, where groups of youths were seen fighting. One boy was taken to hospital with a laceration to his lower back. The rest of the group involved left the centre before police arrived.

🚨 NEW: Federal voting intention 🟧 ONP: 28% ( 2) 🟥 ALP: 26% (-) 🟦 L/NP: 23% (-) 🟩 GRN: 13% (-) ⬛️ OTH: 10% (-2) DemosAU | 15-20 May | n=1502 | /- 9-14 Apr

It appears Victoria’s much vaunted sobering up centre won’t be around much longer. @abcmelbourne has had confirmation from Health Dept that it’ll shut down next year.