Victorian opposition leader Michael O Brien (Image: AAP/James Ross)
Unintended Consequences The pandemic has delivered all manner of workplace hardships. The gendered impacts, the loss of work for casuals and international students who can’t access support, the hemorrhaging of academic jobs, the performing arts laid to waste, and countless others. Possibly worst of all, it appears to be keeping Michael O’Brien in a job.
The Victorian opposition leader and guy you just had to Google to jog your memory survived a spill back in March, one that had been openly planned since the previous August. Since then O’Brien has overseen the scattergun and incoherent day-to-day sniping, peaking with spreading surreal unedifying conspiracy theories regarding how Premier Dan Andrews sustained his serious back injury earlier this year. It has clearly not won him any admirers, with a group of Victorian Libs telling Annika Smethurst in