The AFL season had only just kicked off when Victoria’s second coronavirus wave began. After battling to get games started AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan feared the season was on the ‘edge of an abyss’ with one phone call to decide its fate.
Tony Mokbel’s “money man” is set to have his convictions overturned after spending more than a decade behind bars. Zlate Cvetanovski says a pivotal witness against him was turned by Lawyer X.
If Daniel Andrews was heading a company, corporate investigators would swarm. If he was an AFL coach, he would have been tossed out. But he won’t be dropped, even though his being “Razor Rayed” seems appropriate to many of the Victorians who have been wantonly misled, writes Patrick Carlyon.
They may not be the richest, most powerful, or the most famous, but these are the faces who have made Victoria a better place over three decades through their deeds, careers or changes they’ve championed. As the Herald Sun marks 30 years we celebrate 30 people who have made our state great.
Daniel Andrews’ seven-month coronavirus management saga, as depicted in daily press conferences, has played like a never-ending soap opera, but its latest plot twist by his estranged ex-Health Minister might make for the most dramatic episode yet, writes Patrick Carlyon.
In his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump outlined his approach to business and life and revealed hints for his future presidency. If only someone had been paying attention, writes Patrick Carlyon.
Victoria Police’s apology for using gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo as an informer is nothing but an attempt to shield individual officers from being held to account, a lawyer assisting the royal commission says.
Victoria’s case numbers are dropping to levels that even a second-world health bureaucracy can manage. If we would allow common sense to guide us, these are the restrictions that should be lifted immediately, writes Patrick Carlyon.
The announcement that anyone breaching Melbourne’s “ring of steel” would be stung with a $5000 fine has largely passed by without comment, as we now seem gripped in a kind of collective Stockholm Syndrome, trapped by boneheaded stridency and poor policy, writes Patrick Carlyon.
Daniel Andrews has lost the confidence of the people. We have rules in Melbourne where no rules are needed, and we suffer for a government that insists on sledgehammers to swat wasps, writes Patrick Carlyon.
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