Jacinta Allan Victoria’s best bet due to rabid media’s unhinged disdain

“Ditch the Witch“The campaign is now back, directed at Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan, and has been faithfully covered in the media with a clear joy that almost leaps off pages and screens,” writes managing editor Michelle Pini.

Who is Australia’s most hated prime minister?

For the better part of a decade the legacy media told us he was Victoria’s Labor Premier Dan Andrews. Andrews certainly didn’t try to appease the media, and his ability to appear (publicly at least) as if he didn’t care about whatever they did to him really turned Murdochracy’s nose up.

But despite incessant attacks and almost daily reports in the press claiming that everyone hated him, he still comfortably won government three times, with an increasing majority each time, and then left politics of his own volition. How disrespectful to our rabid media mob!

At around the same time, the hate campaign was in full swing in Victoria. Gladys BerejiklianAlthough she is a woman and therefore not generally favored, she was seen to be eating out of the media’s hands in NSW – and even managing to be was praised like ‘The woman who saved Australia’.

While Berejiklian mirrored Andrews’ COVID policies but was not vilified for them, this praise could of course not be further from the truth, as she was embroiled in a major corruption scandal that media groups ignored at the time.

But Berejiklian was not criminally prosecuted despite the NSW ICAC find she got engaged ‘Serious corrupt behavior’. Of course he was a Liberal, so he was on the “Right” side of the media.

Fast forward to 2026, and Andrews’ ill-fated successor Jacinta Allan shipped To the Victorian anti-corruption watchdog. We’ll see if Allan has a case to answer – that’s why we have an IBAC – and if Allan is found guilty of something untoward, then of course he must face the consequences.

Dan Andrews was also referred to IBAC and was cleared of any wrongdoing in multiple investigations; which still didn’t seem to affect his popularity despite the media frenzy.

But in Allan’s case, a woman in the Labor Party and now allegations of corruption? This is the media’s favorite trilogy. There are media reports that Julia Gillard’s suspicious boyfriend in his 20s never went missing, even three decades later.

There are also a few key differences between Berejiklian and Allan. The first is the fact that the latter is the Leader of the Labor Party, despite both being clearly women; This means Allan cannot be glorified as saving anything, let alone the country.

In fact, even 14 years after Gillard’s famous work misogyny speech“Ditch the Witchcampaign has now returned to Allan, and has been reported in the media with such clear gusto and fidelity that it almost leaps off the page and screen. The fact that it is Labor And Also a woman this means the Premier of Victoria is persona non grata. Considering the fact that he was also Andrews’ deputy, but minus the swagger, it wouldn’t have helped even if Allan was the best prime minister in history.

Almost every news story about Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan begins with “Strong Labor Premier” or something similar. Some of the stories actually concern the Victorian Prime Minister; Others concern only the state of Victoria.

For example, a media report about any random crime does not start with “A man was arrested today in Melbourne for motor vehicle theft/drugs/assault offences.” If it occurs in Melbourne or elsewhere in the Garden State, the report is likely to begin with: “The embattled Allan Government is under further pressure as the crime rate continues to rise, with a man arrested today in Melbourne for motor vehicle theft/drugs/assault.”

When the Victorian Government responds to rising interest rates and the rising cost of living by introducing positive mitigation measures such as free transport, vehicle registration discounts or service concessions, the media responds with headlines such as:

‘Jacinta Allan has a strange plan to reduce debt. ‘It involves even more spending’

Or:

‘Labour’s creative accounting won’t change Victoria’s financial trajectory’

It is also true that, after years of neglect by the previous Coalition Government, this Labor Government has “got its shit together”. Some initiatives and reforms include legislation on railway stations, regional hospitals, increasing nursing rates, removing 91 dangerous level crossings, 121 new state schools, subsidized TAFE schemes and home working rights.

So how are these achievements? reported?

The price of ‘getting the job done’: Victoria’s debt explosion

And speaking of debt, not a day goes by without Victorians being told that Victoria is broke and that we are worse off than any other state or territory. So is this true?

Here are four examples of states/territories:

• New South Wales‘Gross debt is approx. $199.7 billion, $23,221 per person.
• Victoriagross debt approx. 188 billion dollars, $26,404 per person — which is higher than in New South Wales.
• Queenslandgross debt approx. $163 billion, $28,298 per capita — This seems to us higher than either of these cases.

But the winner is…drumroll…

… Northern Territorysurprisingly gross debt 16.36 billion dollars, $61,735per capita – Australia’s highest! Egilin, Prime Minister and Leader of the Country Liberal Party, Lia Finocchiaro.

You probably haven’t heard of Finocchiaro’s questionable success, as the media establishment has never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Meanwhile, in Victoria, almost every news story about anything affecting this state in any way will end with: “Premier Allan continues to field criticism over his response to crime/cost of living pressures/debt/cancer/weather”.

Our favorite and perhaps silliest example of the anger directed at Allan involves one of the previous leaders of the Victorian Liberal Opposition (there were several leaders when Labor was in power).

It’s a strange new twist to the Liberals’ ongoing destabilization by one of their own, a now-independent Victorian MP. Moira Deeming recently tried to create another Victorian Liberal leader, Matthew GuyHe is charged with assault. Deeming had previously been expelled by another Victorian Liberal leader. John Pesutto. Pesutto was successful lawsuit filed He faced bankruptcy and lost leadership, as it was deemed an insult by the company.

However, in this case, Victoria Police found that Guy did not have a case to answer in the now infamous “yoke” incident. However, Deeming rejected apologize

Deeming has since started Further legal action against the Victorian Liberal Party and its leader Brian Loughnane, will remain the Liberal candidate in this year’s state election.

But that’s not all, because guess who’s ultimately responsible for all this on a planet populated only by the Liberals and their media fan club? You guessed it! You have Matthew Guy requested An apology from Prime Minister Jacinta Allan. Oh, he also wants one from the Attorney General Sonja Kilkenny. You can’t really make up for it.

Interestingly, the Liberal Party in practice deleted There’s also a woman at the helm in the last Victorian State Election, a novice Jess Wilson – at least for now. Wilson’s desire to draw closer to One Nation has generated mixed reactions within his party, as has his previous support for Moira Deeming.

Combined with Deeming’s apparent determination to continue fighting against his previous party, alongside the ongoing factional warfare of the Federal Labor Party that had made it difficult for even his party in 1955 Data Loss Prevention The days when the Labor Party split in two, ensuring 17 years of political oblivion seem insignificant, it is impossible to predict how long Wilson will remain.

Then there is Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON), which the media keeps shoving down our throats. Victoria’s representative Rikkie-Lee TyrrellOne Nation’s first representative in the Victorian Parliament. Tyrell was apparently inspired to join the PHONies. ‘Light switch moment’.

as one commentator He wrote on social media:

‘Jacinta Allan stands between the Far Right and political power.’

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