Jeff Kennett brought in the 3,000 days get a statue
policy in the 1990s in Victoria. There have
been four premiers honoured - John Cain, Rupert Hamer,
Henry Bolte, Albert Dunstan.

It now appears that Daniel Andrews is going to be the
fifth to be so honoured with a bronze statue.

There's been a mixed reaction.

What do the forum posters think?

Maybe not one of Jeff's brightest ideas. On a similar basis Adolf Hitler would be certain to get a statue in Germany along with Otto von Bismarck, Helmut Kohl, Angela Merkel, and Konrad Adenauer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chancellors_of_Germany_by_time_in_office.

These arbitrary deadlines are a trap. Andrews is one of the worst people to fill the position of Victorian Premier. The statue idea is up there with Joh Bjelke-Petersen getting an honorary doctorate of laws. Presumably after multiple royal commissions in the future find his government to have been guilty of so many malfeasances (Red Shirts, Lawyer X, Lockdowns, the Hotels debacle) and him of personal malfeasance (doctored report of the accident his wife had which severely injured a boy) there will be calls to rip the statue down.

I'd be waiting 10 years to see what turns up before ordering the wax statue, let alone the mould.

Controversy was never far away from his government
in his 9 years as Victorian premier. His hardline
approach to the COVID pandemic made him a
polarizing figure.

His time in office was marked by political achievements
as well as progressive policies but also by a long list of
controversies that ultimately undermined his popularity.

His 20 months in and out of lockdown drew praise from some
and strong condemnation from others. The premier tried to
explain that "It wasn't a popularity contest. It was a
pandemic and good logical decisions had to be made."

Many will disagree.

Wikipedia lists his achievements as:

The Big Build infrastructure projects, rental law reforms,
voluntary assisted dying, legislation of medical
cannabis, adoption reforms, sex work decriminalisation,
first nations treaties, safe injection rooms, compensation
reforms for victims of institutionalised child sex abuse,
and the introduction of exclusion zones for protests outside
abortion clinics, to name just a few.

There's more at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel-Andrews#:

Love him or loathe him - the controversy will continue with
his statue.

Here's the link again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Andrews

I think it's good the country still has a sense of humour.

Statues, monuments etc, to colonial criminals and modern day murders like James Cook, Arthur Phillip, and Adolf Hitler are not appropriate.