Daniel Andrews resigns as premier of Victoria | 7.30

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews made a stunning announcement that he will step down from his position.

One of the most consequential leaders in Victoria's history, Andrews acquired a national profile through his leadership during the pandemic. He resigns less than a year after winning a third election.

Rhiana Whitson and Nicole Asher report from Melbourne

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[lionhearttt]

Oh who believes this... he's an actor and a bad one at that

[brad]

So happy to hear this news today. Good riddance Andrews.

[stephenbetteridge]

Hmmmm. I can hear the sounds of bones rattling... are they coming out of the closet? Thank god he has gone and now let's watch the show that follows. Daniell, let's hope you were nice to the people on the way up as, as you know, you will meet them on the way down.

[morrisanderson]

And everyone in Victoria sang
Hallelujah

[k-lab]

ABC adding emotive music to the news reflects there spiral into reporting subjective news.

[davidtarr]

Howconvienant giving himself a dollar pay rise then leaving the state in its worst debt in history well done labor supporters

[bazza]

i don't think i've ever seen a farewell of a political leader spoken by the person he toppled out of government. What the hell is going on ABC? Even the stories about Labor are spoken by liberals. I think you can go Ita and Co

[pascaltheth]

Zero accountability from this goose government. When a premier resigns that should auto trigger a new election.

[cranegantry]

Yayyy, he must have been told to go by the 'handlers' (those men in dark places, nameless).

[tjmadass]

Why give Big Ted all the airtime? He was such a flop as Premier that he opened the door for a then unlikely win for Andrews and Labor. I guess it was easier than getting a coherent response from the current LNP rabble.

[titot]

This man tried but he’s Australia is entering uncertain times. Australian media is no no longer Australian. Australian labour has lost its way. We don’t need to be a colony of the USA

[aussie]

Tomorrow should be a state public holiday so we can all celebrate 🥳🍻🥳

[rodney]

Daniel Andrews resignation means that, since 1955, Jeff Kennett is the only Victorian premier to have been voted in and out of the job via the electoral process. BTW, nice to hear the gracious words and balanced opinion of Ted Baillieu, a first-hand expert on what poor governance and weak leadership looks like.

[JOJOHN-]

Now they are blaming Murdoch how dumb are the left clutching at straws

[fatheranthonypope]

Cancelling the east west dud did not cost $1billion.

[globaltripping]

No one is asking him to stay lol, worst handling of the Pandemic of any region in the world. We won’t miss you Andrew’s

[theadventuresofzoomandbettie]

apart from Brack's comments, this was a very one sided report against Andrews, and without Brack's additional comments, didn't present both sides of quite a few situations. Especially on the east-west link, which was a clearly a huge part of the platform he took to the election because there was a lot of community backlash about it. In addition, it only cost that money because the former liberals went ahead and signed contracts at a time where they should not have been with the election on the horizon, knowing if they lost (which was likely) it was going to be canned. It was a deliberate move by the then libs to dump the costs on the public which could have been easily avoided. I'm always super irritated when Andrews gets blamed for those costs. There is a ton of other things that are worthy of discussion labor of recent years probably hasn't got right, but that's not one of them.

[vigorousdragon]

I could hear the Cheering From Sydney.

[ewanhazel]

Some of the worst reporting i've been by ABC in a while. With a title as neutral as "Daniel Andrews resigns as premier of Victoria, " you'd expect it to be a relatively informative, unbiased piece and not a 6 minute dan bash presented by former liberal party premiers. If you want to write a hit piece it needs to have a hit piece title.

[jerryboics]

Democracy. Only 2 choices and who you vote for isn't necessarily who you get.
Not prepared to stay the full term, don't take the job.