Daniel Andrews after the release of an IBAC report into branch stacking.

How will history (not to mention voters) remember Daniel Andrews?

Legacy is a fickle thing in politics,and even more so in a pandemic,but COVID-19 has redefined the Labor leader,who has finished his second term even stronger than he started it. An extract from Sumeyya Ilanbey’s upcoming book,Daniel Andrews.

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Opposition Leader Matthew Guy.

‘Renee is not her family’:Guy defends new Liberal candidate

Renee Heath,who secured top spot on the Liberal ticket for a safe upper house seat,should not be judged on her father’s connections to a church accused of historic links to gay conversion practices,the Opposition Leader says.

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Opposition Leader Matthew Guy addresses the media.

Tim Smith defies Liberal leader’s call to quit Parliament after crash

Embattled Liberal MP Tim Smith is refusing to quit State Parliament,defying Opposition Leader Matthew Guy who declared the member for Kew should not recontest next year’s election.

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Opposition Leader Matthew Guy.

Fall in preference shifts pressure on to Labor

The return of Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has halved the gap between the leaders of the state’s two major parties.

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Daniel Andrews and Matthew Guy are due to face off for the second time at the 2022 election.

Voters swing against Andrews but Labor in election-winning position

Daniel Andrews remains Victorian voters’ preferred premier but polling shows the return of Matthew Guy has halved the gap between the leaders of the state’s two major parties.

  • Annika Smethurst
Premier Daniel Andrews speaks at a press conference.

Sticking power:Victorians have made up their minds about Dan

Comparison can be drawn between the Victorian Premier’s position and that of Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez,whose popularity soared after he banned all social gatherings.

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Daniel Andrews is hoping to spend the state out of unemployment.

Labor claws back support as Victorians stick by incumbents

The opposition has failed to capitalise on the lockdowns of the past 18 months and remains on the same primary vote it recorded at the 2018 election.

  • Annika Smethurst
Preference whisperer Glenn Druery.

‘Doesn’t pass the pub test’:Glenn Druery lands new gig in Victoria

Controversial ‘preference whisperer’ Glenn Druery faces new probity concerns after being hired for a taxpayer-funded role by a state upper house MP while running his own lucrative cash-for-votes business.

  • Ben Schneiders,Sumeyya Ilanbey andRoyce Millar
A row'Dan Andrews'as projected by scare campaigns waged by the Liberal opposition. a criminal gang Dan (2018);a UFU firefighters'union thug Dan (2018) and a COVID-19 Dan (2020). Illustration for John Faine story by Matt Davidson

Victorian opposition should be wary of repeating mistakes

Michael O’Brien must convince us that he would do a better job running the joint,instead of just pointing out all the scar tissue on the Premier and his team.

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Sheena Watt,a Yorta Yorta woman,is set to become Labor's first Indigenous state MP.

Why did the Premier intervene in selecting a replacement for Mikakos?

When Andrews called on the party to do “something very,very special” by electing its first Aboriginal state MP,the balloon really went up inside his faction.

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