If you don’t like personality politics, if you think an election campaign should be a contest of ideas not a contest for headlines, Victoria is not the place to be. | OPINION by Neil Mitchell
and then deny saying it. He has not said “I cannot recall” when tough questions are asked around the pandemic.
Apart from that, as leader the biggest public question of integrity was to turn up at dinner with a man with whom nobody sensible would break bread.And that would have been forgotten if not for the immortal headline “Lobster with a mobster”. So if this is to be a personal campaign, let’s dig into why Sportsbet on Saturday had Labor at $1.05 and the Opposition at a disastrous $7.50 even after the latest IBAC revelations. Let’s look at people not policies:Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton reportedly served time in Premier Daniel Andrews’ political sin bin.Publicly at times he lacks empathy. He has built an office and a huge staff that bypasses the usual democratic process and runs Victoria like his personal kingdom.
Privately, and I have also known him for years, he can be warm, engaging and funny. This rarely comes across to the public, which is in itself a criticism. Too often from both leaders we get a caricature of what they think we want rather than what they are.
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