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Who will we blame for everything now? How can Dan do this to us?
Well considering there are people still blaming Kennett for everything 25 years later (even things that happened before and after he was in office), I’m sure people can keep blaming Dan for stuff for at least a decade.
Kennett is pretty fucking shit though
People keep blaming kennet for shit he actually did though, that had knockon effects that last for generations.
They blame him for stuff he didn’t do as well. For example I’ve seen him blamed for introducing pokies (Kirner) and tolls on Eastlink (Bracks after backflipping on the “no new toll roads” promise).
Also, you’d think a quarter of a century (yes, Kennett left office 25 years ago) would be long enough to make a few changes, yet here we are as the state with the lowest spend on health per capita, lowest spend on education per capita, lowest proportion of public housing, highest debt-to-GSP ratio, and a completely ineffective anti-corruption body. Labor keeps granting extensions on toll roads to Transurban, allowing Crown to keep operating no matter how dodgy they are, and doing property developers favours. Yet we have the highest paid premier in the country.
How long can you keep blaming Kennett for stuff neither party is interested in addressing? I have no coincidence in Victorian politicians at all.
How could Dan Andrews do this?
He should resign over this.
For likely the very last time ever.
Holy shit, not the news I was expecting to see today.
I swear everyone in Aussie government looks the same
I wonder who’s running for leadership or will it be a shoe in for JA?
There’ll be a special session of the Politburo in Beijing to decide that
The People’s Democratic Republic of Victoria is in a ruinous state after Supreme Leader and Defender of Victorian Socialism Dan Jon Un passed this morning. Residents could be seen violently sobbing on the streets near Parliament, Government House and the Leaders official residence.
Businesses have closed due to mourning, and some suicides have been reported.
Aaaannnd user blocked. Ah thats just a tiny bit better
Oh sad, was just a joke, I’m as left as they come.
Hopefully we see far less centralisation of decision making within the Premier’s office from here on out.
Yes chef
? Unless you mean within the cabinet/executive council I don’t understand why you would say this. OotP is for the premier and decisions are naturally centralised to the premier.
Put here by Margaret Simons more succinctly than I probably can from my phone at the moment:
Over the last couple of years, the words “tightly held” have come up in almost every conversation about Andrews government decisions.
It reflects the way in which major policy has been developed by a small group of his most trusted people – developed in what one observer described as a “black box”, with even government ministers excluded, unless they were in the increasingly tiny circle of the favoured.
The politicisation of the public service – its lack of ability and sometimes the will to stand up to the premier – was becoming one of the themes of the government.
The problem was decisions occurring within the Premier’s office despite departmental or ministerial advice, and often in advance of questions being asked. It’s been a problem for years at this point but my experience of the issue really came to a head during COVID when trying to work with a DHHS / DFFH that was actually incapable of making any decision or holding to the ones that it did make and communicate with pretty deleterious outcomes.
The problem was particularly highlighted by the step change in those interactions in March 2021 when Merlino became acting Premier.
It was a functional issue, it’s become a major factional issue within Labor, and it’s a large element in the contempt for integrity institutions and ombudsmen that the government has shown recently.
That’s a separate issue, but to actually speak on it I completely agree that public policy and policymaking decisions should be public. The governors of this country are bound to assent to laws in council, which includes all of cabinet and if they aren’t properly aware then they can’t properly offer counsel to governor.
