While they all have plausible reasons to leave (Merlino sincerely said he didn’t “have the fuel in the tank for another term”), it won’t be difficult for opposition leader Matthew Guy to criticize the government as a revolving door. While the prime minister is unlikely to be too concerned: the Coalition is still far behind in polls, according to The agethe latest Resolve Political Monitor poll.
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While the nightmares of the COVID blockade are receding into the dark and gloomy past, few have yet forgotten the central role Andrews played in the government’s response to the famous daily press conference for 120 days after the closure. of Victoria.
While he gained enormous visibility at the time, the risk he now faces, says Paul Strangio, a professor of politics at Monash University, is excessive. Perhaps “he would have exhausted his welcome with the public. They will want to live after Andrews. Call it the Churchill effect: after the war, the British public wanted a change, as far as they were willing to go outside, possibly its greatest leader of the 20th century.
Andrews is unlikely to want to remind us too much of the years of COVID; although many of the calls he made were necessary, there were also mistakes. But as the days of the COVID daily press conference are over, the government’s prospects depend heavily on Andrews ’ability to communicate. And in an election year in which there are barely a handful of familiar faces left in the cabinet, what he says and does carries more weight than ever.