ABC presenter Patricia Karvelas has reacted to online backlash from Daniel Andrews supporters after she suggested the former Victorian Premier had “cut out accountability” by refusing to speak to certain journalists.
Karvelas said in the clip that Mr Andrews “cut out that sort of accountability stuff with people like [former ABC Radio Melbourne host] Virginia Trioli and [3AW radio host] Neil Mitchell” with his morning
One person claimed that “like many in the media” Karvelas was “behaving like a jilted lover”, while another woman said Mr Andrews “did not need to be accountable to Karvelas” and accused her of “[undermining] public health measures to save lives”.Former Labor MP Laurie Ferguson wrote, “Karvelas was worried that Andrews cut out the media and spoke directly to the people.
He won that last election because of terrible opposition, but also because people on balance gave him credit for the work he’d done through the pandemic even though … it was pretty divisive some of it, and not everyone loved what he did during the pandemic. But on balance Victorians gave him credit for fronting up every single day and kind of being really a towering figure during that time.”
political editor Phillip Coorey argued voters in Victoria would care about the record debt “when they start whacking taxes on schools and