Why it’s fine to talk about ‘Dictator Dan’

For those who count themselves, as I do, among the #DictatorDan crowd, whether full-throated or privately enthusiastic, the decision in the curfew case lodged by Mornington Penninsula cafe owner Michelle Loielo handed down by Victorian Supreme Court Justice Tim Ginnane last week will be like a wafer-thin mint for Mr Creosote. 

After months of listening to Mr Andrews’s daily cult-of-personality press conferences where he has had the opportunity to star on television as much as he likes, Victorians have been told that even the courts back him in on the most fanciful part of his lockdown. It’s a sliver to most people right now, but it’s enough to make me burst. 

Justice Ginnane’s decision in Loielo v Giles will provide…