Jenny Mikakos just the latest victim in Daniel Andrews’ ruthless game
Not satisfied with merely treating the Victorian population with disdain, Daniel Andrews has turned his attention to Jenny Mikakos in his most cold-hearted move yet, writes Jeff Kennett.
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Jenny Mikakos’s comments on Friday just highlight how we have all been treated like rubbish by Premier Andrews and his crew.
How the Gang of Eight have treated the so-called inquiry with disdain, and we are being led and controlled by the most unaccountable government in living history.
Jenny Mikakos was not perhaps the best minister the state of Victoria ever had, and as one of the Gang of Eight had to accept some responsibilities for the government’s failures, but she was hardworking, diligent and loyal to her leader.
That Daniel Andrews threw her under the bus in the most cold-hearted manner, in attempt to save his own skin, was the most despicable act of his disloyalty and misogyny we have seen in years.
Daniel Andrews is a political operator of the first order. A control freak. No one matters to him, he listens to no one, he cares not at all for the damage his policies are rendering on the people of the state he was elected to lead.
His handling of this virus has been a disaster of unimaginable consequences. Not only the more than 800 deaths, but the destruction of untold businesses, the loss of financial security built up by families and individuals over decades, not to mention the psychological damage being done to thousands young and old.
Andrews and his colleagues, the Gang of Eight, should be charged with criminal negligence.
Mikakos’s comments yesterday only touch the surface of the truth. Sadly, if she told the truth now, having backed and supported her Premier, she might be up for perjury.
The inquiry was a sham. Not forensic, no attention to detail, no chasing rabbits down burrows as occurred at the Hayne royal commission into the financial sector.
The fact that every minister and senior public servant could not remember any salient fact was the designed cover-up of all time. The Workplace Safety Legislation Amendment (Industrial Manslaughter and Other Matters) Bill carries a penalty if found guilty of up to $16.5m or 20 years in jail.
What is worse, these ministers and senior public servants who can remember nothing are still in office. What further damage are they doing, about which they will have no memory?
The Gang of Eight, including the Premier, should be charged under their own legislation which was designed to hold to account leaders for acts of commission and omission that has caused wilful damage.
If it had been a CEO of a company, a board of directors whose omissions had caused 800 deaths, they would be jailed. The same laws introduced and passed by the Andrews ALP government should now be applied to them, the Gang of Eight.
Jenny Mikakos was the first victim of Daniel Andrews’ disloyalty. Is Andrew Crisp the second? Who will be the next?
The reputation of the Australian Labor Party, a proud party established to protect the workers of our community is in tatters, shredded all because of Daniel Andrews’ hubris. And no one in the Labor Party has the courage to move him on. Hence, they are all responsible for what has occurred in Victoria.
Jenny Mikakos has resigned as a minister and as a member of parliament. But the person who held all the strings, exerted total control, and who says he still has work to do, Daniel Andrews has comprehensively failed like no other elected leader of any government, state or federal.
Jeff Kennett is a former premier of Victoria
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