{"id":327574,"date":"2025-12-03T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=327574"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:03:16","slug":"daniel-andrews-the-continuing-story-of-the-human-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=327574","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Andrews &#8211; the continuing story of the Human Headline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The defamation case Ryan Meuleman v <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=daniel-andrews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Daniel Andrews\">Daniel Andrews<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BikeBoyScandal\">@BikeBoyScandal<\/a> ) has been set for February 2026 by Justice Owens in the Federal Court \u2014 a detail the media somehow forgot to mention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Filming his Sky News feature Out of Control: Victoria\u2019s Crime Crisis, journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonathanLea10\">@JonathanLea10<\/a> cornered former premier Daniel Andrews for comment. Andrews \u2014 who still refuses to account for the 801 deaths under his watch, and whose government was cited for human-rights breaches during COVID \u2014 ducked for cover, insisting he\u2019s \u201cjust a private citizen.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A savvy journo like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=jonathan-lea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jonathan Lea\">Jonathan Lea<\/a> won\u2019t take long to work out whether \u201cprivate citizens\u201d are entitled to help run the Victorian Government from home \u2014 or from an iPhone. And a new book &#8216;The Dark Legacy of Daniel Andrews&#8217; describes how Andrews &#8216;&#8221;untrammelled&#8221; use of power has left the state less prosperous, and democratic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filming his Sky News feature Out of Control: Victoria\u2019s Crime Crisis, journalist @JonathanLea10 cornered former premier Daniel Andrews for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":146234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[11283,10189,18939],"class_list":["post-327574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-bikeboyscandal","tag-daniel-andrews","tag-jonathan-lea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327576,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327574\/revisions\/327576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}