The Matthew Guy who Victorians had decided by a near-record margin they didn’t want as premier in 2018 was back on display last week: aggressive, dismissive, and eventually angry. Meanwhile, his staff were fleeing as if a fire had broken out. | OPINION ...
If you were Matthew Guy, you’d have to be one of the few Liberals thankful to Scott Morrison for being so deluded and deceitful. As the Victorian Liberal leader dragged himself to the end of last week, he was in a bad way. Weighed down by the still-unresolved scandal around a plan to supplement the salary of, he’d given an interview on 3AW that was everything he didn’t need it to be.
The money for this will come from ditching the Andrews government’s signature infrastructure project,. There’s no shortage of infrastructure experts who are critical or altogether dismissive of the loop, but the Labor Party believes it won several seats at the last election by promising to build it. Then again, it could also hurt the opposition. A fundamental problem for the Liberals across the country, but especially in Victoria, remains how much they want to lift their heads, look to the horizon and engage with the future. It’s a given that the role of opposition leader on behalf of either side of politics in any jurisdiction is a terrible job. But in recent history that’s been especially so for Liberal opposition leaders in Victoria.
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