Jon Faine
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first heard Jul 2026
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But you can also look at what's happened in the UK where Andy Burnham's got a bounce after Keir Starmer was in the absolute pits of despair for the Labor Party there.
So whether it's shifting deck chairs in Titanic scenario or whether it's, ah, we can revive our chances, only time will tell.
But I think one of the mistakes Jacinta Allen did make was
will not be made by Ben Carroll.
She never differentiated herself from Dan Andrews and I don't think Ben Carroll will do that any more likely than you'll see him front up in a North Face jacket or whatever it is that Dan Andrews used to wear.
He's going to be his own person.
He's a different, totally different creature and he won't fall into that trap.
I make that confident prediction.
She could have, but she didn't because she was so invested in the big build program.
It was her portfolio when she was the deputy.
She never looked at her own government with fresh eyes the way I think Ben Carroll can and will.
The big build has been the signature policy of the Andrews government since they came into office all those years ago.
It started off with level crossing removal and it was brilliant.
It worked because level crossings created so much congestion around a fairly flat city like Melbourne.
So getting rid of level crossings with what they called Skyrail, lifting a lot of train lines onto elevated platforms or dropping them into underpasses at level crossings, has been phenomenally successful in freeing up Melbourne for freight as well as commuters.
It's also brought communities that were separated by a train line.
It's given them a chance to unite across what becomes very often an area of parks and bikeways and barbecues and basketball rings and things where people could just walk across to the neighbours, whereas they used to have to do this big kind of round trip to the nearest level crossing.
From that, they then leapt on to more and more and more infrastructure and, of course, all of those big programs
has created enormous construction work and it's empowered the unions involved.
And wherever there's a big pot of money, there are people who sniff out an opportunity to go and rort it.
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