The hotel inquiry has given us an extraordinary window into how the policy sausage is made in Victoria, and it's not very pretty, writes Michael Bachelard | ANALYSIS
His appearance at the hotel inquiry was supposed to happen on Wednesday, the fallout dealt with on Thursday and Friday, and the weekend left clear for celebration – the first announcement about opening up again after the long, dark, stage-four, COVID-abnormal winter.Scott McNaughton
It was a disappointing outcome for him, perhaps, but fascinating and revealing for the rest of us. These events have given us an extraordinary window into how the policy sausage is made in Victoria – how decisions arrive fully formed and apparently by osmosis, how poorly briefed and incurious our ministers sometimes are, how they slide deftly around blame, and how many warnings can be ignored in the face of impending catastrophe.Mikakos resigned because she had no choice.
"Well," replied Andrews, "the Minister has tendered her resignation ... All my Ministers have my confidence. Miss Mikakos is not a Minister any longer." Stage-four Victoria is the Daniel Andrews show. He is the best communicator in the government by far and one of the best in the country. His presence dominates the narrative of this crisis not just in the public eye, but in the internal forums of government. His office, his department, are similarly dominant.
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