Daniel Andrews: “You can now get a haircut. Aren’t you going to thank me?”

Precisely how many times did the ‘so, so sincere’ Victorian Premier, and his ‘stand-in’ Health Minister, thank Victorians in their much-heralded media ‘event’ on Sunday?

I lost count.  It was an unnecessarily long and entirely unremarkable hour of our lives that we shall never get back. This is precisely as the spin doctors in Andrews’ Spring Street bunker had planned it.  

The Victorian Premier has a communications unit more than 50 strong — and jolly fair enough too.  All those social and conventional media platforms to feed 24/7. Pumping up the flat tyres of this government needs all socially-distanced hands on deck. 

The overall plan was to have the electorate think the government had solved a major…