Plain as day

08/28/2025

This (the subject matter under discussion) is a screenshot of a news feed from The Guardian. It shows a headline about Moira Deeming, a Victorian politician, being criticised for describing the police as Daniel Andrews’ (the former Victorian Premier’s) “personal army.” The controversy arose during a debate about a statue, which happened while police were also conducting a manhunt for a suspect accused of killing two officers.

The criticism seems to come from the fact that her comments were seen as poorly timed or inflammatory, given the seriousness of the police operation underway.

Do you want me to dig deeper and check exactly what the statue debate was about, and how it linked to her comment?

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Fuck no … what statue?

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Jeff Kennett introduced a convention that any premier who serves over 3,000 days in office will be honoured with a statue outside 1 Treasury Place in Melbourne. Good on ya, Jeff.

Odd number, 3,000 days. That’s just over 8 years. Apparently he did it in days to account for leap years, or somesuch.

Dan Andrews served over 3,000 days but he’s widely hated because he went all communist dictator during COVID.

I suggest they put up the statue and then deface it, just so.