Victoria’s outgoing premier leaves an outstanding progressive legacy, but the pandemic lockdowns ensure he will always be revered or reviled
Nothing significant could proceed in Victoria until someone within the DPC [department of premier and cabinet] signed off to allow it to happen. Ministers have often bristled at that level of micro-management, but Andrews was unapologetic.He believed that if his longevity in office depended on decisions being made during lockdown, then he would personally make them, not a delegate. He was not prepared to lose office because of something someone else decided.
Would anyone else – on either side of the political divide – have done a better job? By any global comparison, Australia weathered the pandemic better than most, but nobody who lived through lockdown will readily forget it.Andrews was sensationally called – as a witness not a suspect – to multiple anti-corruption commission inquiries. There have beenThe Victorian ombudswoman, Deborah Glass, is completing a long-running investigation into the politicisation of the public service.
As Dan Andrews looks forward to his personal grand final, Victorians look back at a premier who was either revered or reviled.
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