{"id":329286,"date":"2025-12-14T09:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=329286"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:52:07","slug":"author-reflects-on-the-dark-legacy-of-daniel-andrews-and-his-grim-impact-on-victorians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=329286","title":{"rendered":"Author reflects on the dark legacy of Daniel Andrews and his \u2018grim\u2019 impact on Victorians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Director of research at the Institute of Public Affairs, Morgan Begg, has reflected on the legacy of former Premier Daniel Andrews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Begg has written a book titled: \u2018The Dark Legacy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=daniel-andrews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Daniel Andrews\">Daniel Andrews<\/a>: Assessing the Social and Economic Costs of Australia\u2019s Most Controversial Premier.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-329288\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4992888417882142;width:522px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-3.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Daniel Andrews &#8211; <em>Image: Darrian Traynor\/Getty\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cVictoria went from being the social and economic capital of Australia, to something much more grim,\u201d Mr Begg told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=tom-elliott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Tom Elliott\">Tom Elliott<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear his strong assessment of the former premier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Author reflects on the dark legacy of Daniel Andrews and his &#039;grim&#039; impact on Victorians\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/author-reflects-on-the-dark-legacy-of-daniel-andrews-and-his-grim-impact-on-victorians\/embed#?secret=tcFl4JLMUj\" data-secret=\"tcFl4JLMUj\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been out of office for over two years now, but we\u2019re still dealing with the after effects that in many ways, the current government is really just continuing on. It\u2019s Andrews 2.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe COVID period really exemplified the worst tendencies of Daniel Andrews \u2026 this was arrogance to the highest degree, abuse of power to the highest degree.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s been out of office for over two years now, but we\u2019re still dealing with the after effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":141342,"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":[8054,10189,11298,8],"class_list":["post-329286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-3aw","tag-daniel-andrews","tag-tom-elliott","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329286","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=329286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329289,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329286\/revisions\/329289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}