Jacinta Allan shows she’s not Andrews, but risks her party’s wrath

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The premier abandoned Daniel Andrews’ promise to build a second safe injecting room, despite her own faction pushing strongly for it.

In abandoning a second injecting room, Jacinta Allan has shown how she differs from Daniel Andrews, but she has risked hurting the morale of her caucus, which saw this as the government’s next progressive victory.

Instead, the CBD will receive a new community health hub, a boost to pharmacotherapy services in up to 30 locations and vending machines that will offer overdose-reversing machines. Today’s announcement builds on a pattern first seen when the premier was able to secure the continuation of duck hunting, despite a significant caucus push to have the practice banned, and when the government responded to crime concerns by ditching youth bail reform in favour of a trial of ankle bracelets for young offenders.

Throughout his time in power, Andrews built a reputation for pushing ahead on seemingly risky social policy, such as voluntary assisted dying, without paying a price at the ballot box. This partly relied on the idea that the government’s practical achievements in delivering major projects and services would sit at the top of voters’ minds.

 

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