The new premier’s performance this week over the cancellation of the Commonwealth Games will have raised doubts about her ability to resolve Victoria’s substantial issues.
of then-deputy premier Jacinta Allan last year, there was a recurring sentiment from those who had known and worked for the Bendigo MP.
There was not even a hint of any issue that could not be resolved. This was an event going full steam ahead.from law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler about possibly dumping the Games. The reason for axing the event, now widely known, was a reported threefold increase in costs – to as much as $7 billion.
And are we to believe that Andrews told outside private lawyers of the possible axing of the Games on the same day as the minister in charge of the event, who also happened to be his deputy and anointed successor?
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