Victorian Liberal Party Having An Absolute Barry Crocker

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

Polls show that the Victorian premier Jacinta Allan is on the nose with voters, as the state faces ever-growing debt and voter continue to struggle with a post-pandemic malaise that the rest of the country appears to have moved on from.

On top of this, it can be confirmed that Allan is now set to become the second highest paid politician in the country, behind Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Allan took over as Premier after the resignation of her predecessor, Dan Andrews – who left office well and truly burnt out after overseeing more than 300 days of strict COVID-19 lockdowns.

Despite the fact that Victorians comprehensively voted in favour of yet another Labor government in 2022, Allan has since become a punching bag for growing voter frustration – as the state’s economy struggles to recover from the strictest pandemic response in the world.

In any other state, her party would be staring down the barrel of a generational annihilation at next year’s state election.

Luckily for the Victorian Labor party, in their eleventh year of power, their State Opposition could not be more unfit to govern.

This comes as new Victorian Liberal Leader Brad Battin has been served legal papers in a case challenging his party’s controversial decision loan their former leader John Pesutto $1.2m to spare him from bankruptcy.

A party room vote decided that the Liberals should not hang Pesutto out to dry, after he was ordered to pay millions in defamation costs to the Liberal back-bencher Moira Deeming MP, who took great offence at the former leader associating her with the white supremacist neo-nazis that turned up in support of an anti-trans rally that she insisted on attending in early 2023.

Deeming was suspended from the parliamentary Liberal Party for nine months and, before being indefinitely expelled after multiple legal threats against her own leader. In December 2024 the Federal Court ruled that Pesutto had defamed Deeming by suggesting that she associates with Nazis. Deeming was readmitted to the Liberal Party in December that year, and Pesutto was ordered to pay her $2.3m in costs.

She then offered to delay the payment of costs, which would have surely ruined her leader financially, in exchange for pre-selection in the 2026 state election. This was agreed to, and Pesutto was replaced as leader by Brad Battin.

Now she’s coming for the pay-out, and Battin has somehow convinced the party to loan Pesutto enough money to spare him from having his life ruined by his unwise decision to be involved in the Liberal Party of Victoria.

However, the all-powerful brain rot faction of the Victorian Liberal Party are not happy about their new leader’s decision to save Pesutto’s arse, and are now taking him to court over the loan.

All in all, the Victorian Liberals are having an absolute Barry Crocker. So much so, that they are somehow making the maligned Allan government look like a far better option.