Jacinta Allan is tipped to become Victoria’s next premier. In this story, first published last year, we explore if this self-confessed “goody two shoes” has what it takes for the job.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.This story was first published on July 30 last year, when Jacinta Allan was named Victoria’s deputy premier.
Her public profile had risen when she led the campaign against a proposed table-top dancing club in her hometown of Bendigo.. “She was disgusted and thought it was a backwards step.” After leaving school she studied Arts at La Trobe University in Bendigo after missing out on a journalism cadetship at the. It was there she joined the Labor Party, travelling to Melbourne on weekends for party events with her Labor Party contemporaries including Daniel Andrews, former attorney-general Jill Hennessy and federal Labor politicians Andrews Giles and Julian Hill.
“The biggest impact on my outlook and the way I work has been having kids,” Allan says. “Having kids is motivating”. Recalling daily – sometimes hourly – conversations with Allan between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, Weimar praises Allan for engaging with the problem, not avoiding it. “It was a really difficult time, none of us wanted to be there,” he says.
Transport Minister Jacinta Allan with Premier Daniel Andrews at the site of the Suburban Rail Loop station in Clayton last month.As minister for transport infrastructure, Allan has overseen billions of dollars in cost blowouts and delays on Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel rail project and the troubled West Gate Tunnel.– the largest infrastructure project in Australia’s history – which will connect metropolitan train lines in the east with rail lines in the west.
Every Thursday at the end of the sitting week, Allan hosts drinks in her office and uses it as forum to bring together Labor women. One of those, Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes, who comes from the party’s Right faction, says she has found Allan to be honest and approachable since she joined the ministry.
As a young party member, she recalls listening to party members engage in “esoteric debates about Cuba” while her focus was on her community and improving the outcomes for traditional working people in her electorate.
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