Raf Epstein
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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7am · “It’s ugly. It’s messy”: Inside the plot to bring down the Victorian premier · 28 Jul 2026
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Ben Carroll, who's now the Premier, and Sonia Kilkenny, in the few months we've got before the actual election campaign, before the whole Victorian public, there were some really nasty texts flying thick and fast.
It has all resolved.
They finally backed down.
The people who were furious that Jacinta Allen has been deposed backed down.
But lots of allegations of driving the party off the cliff.
Lots of allegations that instead of being faceless men, you're a bunch of headless chooks.
lots of allegations of it.
In fact, someone said to me that the Premier and her supporters are prepared to burn the house down and to burn all the bodies inside as well.
Now, it's an ugly metaphor, but they meant it.
The mistrust is visceral.
It's real.
They've got a paper over it while fighting off the coalition and fighting off One Nation and also fighting off the Greens in some inner city seats.
So it's ugly.
It's messy.
They've got a new face and we're going to get some pretty significant new policies as well.
My instant guess would be no.
I mean, there's no one who's thought for a long time, Ben Carroll's the superstar of Victorian politics that Labor needs.
Now, this is nothing against him, but he's not some sui generis, out of the box, one of a kind, you know, politician of his generation.
They're all fine in this government, just like the state opposition cabinet is fine.
But he's the bearer of hopes that there'll be significant policy change.
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