Friends insist passion is driving his quest for a third term. Others say he doesn’t want to be defined as the “lockdown premier”. So what’s really motivating Daniel Andrews? | annikasmethurst
. As a consequence, Westminster traditions were chipped away, with departmental secretaries no longer accountable to their minister but to Andrews’ inner circle of political operatives.
Foley, who served as health minister for almost two years during the pandemic, “[does not] buy that there is a Machiavellian centre” to the Premier’s Private Office. He believes Andrews “flourished” during the pandemic but admits it was hard not to be changed by the enormity of a cataclysmic, once-in-100-year event.
But you don’t have to be a political insider to see the that over the course of 20 years on Spring Street, Andrews has been transformed. When he arrived at the centre of state politics in 2002, nobody was touting this aloof and nerdy newcomer as the future leader he’d become.Born in Williamstown in 1972, Andrews spent his formative years in Glenroy with his tight-knit family, his parents running a small business in the area.
‘In a way, these last couple of years we kind of suspended normal politics. That’s seen people have entrenched views.’Andrews insists he never aimed to become premier. “If you’d asked me in November 2002, would I be sitting here 20 years later, no, I wouldn’t have thought that was going to happen. But politics is funny like that, life is funny.
It was the first Tuesday in November that year and Andrews’ campaign bus pulled up near a sports bar on Lydiard Street in Ballarat just before 3pm. A memorable photograph from the day shows him clutching a Jim Beam and cola in one hand and a TAB ticket for Lloyd Williams’ Melbourne Cup runner Fawkner in the other. Andrews made small talk with locals and journalists. He was relaxed, gregarious and keen to impress.
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