How Daniel Andrews can still control Victoria – even once he’s gone

Last sitting week the Victorian Government, with support of most of the opposition, placed a ban on fracking in the state constitution.

Only one courageous Liberal MP crossed the floor and a few of us on the crossbench opposed this legislative insanity — and we are supposed to be the crazy ones.

Fracking is already illegal in Victoria, so I guess you could say it is now doubly illegal.

But this is not about fracking. This is about good governance and whether the Victorian people should have supremacy over the law. The constitution is the basic framework for how a parliament is elected, what its makeup is and what powers it holds. These are fundamental documents that shape our democratic institutions and through the…