Over the weekend, Labor took a thumping in a Victorian by-election.

This, in a state that has for so long leaned to the centre-left, that former prime minister John Howard dubbed it “the Massachusetts of Australia”.

Today state political editor, Chip Le Grand, on why so many voters are abandoning Labor in Victoria. And if this signals doom for the party at the federal election.

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