Away from official positions,the premier is quietly assembling the key members of her squad.
Daniel Andrews’ successor,likely to be Jacinta Allan,will inherit a huge political margin and weak opposition – as well as severe budget pain.
Greg Hunt is on a mission to make Melbourne the new Boston or Cambridge,but in his first interview since leaving politics,he also draws attention to COVID deaths and calls for Liberal Party diversity.
Former Channel Nine boss and AFL lawyer Jeff Browne has hit back at a suggestion from a Collingwood vice-president that he has an agenda of “power and privilege”.
While the experts might be pleased with the premier’s’ recovery after a fall,politics is brutal and there is speculation about his eventual successor.
The loss of international students is set to punch an $18 billion hole in the economy,placing state and federal governments under growing pressure to act.
Whether you consider him resolute or arrogant,the Premier's central role in this crisis has undermined his ability to unite Victorians through the state's next phase.
Four former Victorian Premiers from both sides of politics say a"kick a Vic"mentality has reached damaging levels and frustrations should go towards the coronavirus,not Victoria.
The chief of the Fred Hollows Foundation is concerned that other worthy causes will struggle to attract people's attention in the way the bushfire crisis gripped the world.
Daniel Andrews was determined to get the state moving - then came the budget blowouts and the legal proceedings.
Bushfires in Australia will continue to get worse as more and more people choose to live in the path of disaster,experts fear.