The government took the unorthodox step of negotiating only with the group of three after Patten asked for pandemic-specific laws to replace the less transparent emergency laws the last time a state of emergency was extended. The negotiations over the pandemic legislation, which will be debated in Parliament next week after Adem Somyurek derailed its progress, are a case study in the crossbenchers’ relationship with the government. The issues on which Meddick and Patten oppose the government tend to be those on which the pair sit to the left of Labor, for example offshore gas policy or criminal justice reform. It is not uncommon, a government source confirmed, for ministers or advisers to have parallel conversations about unrelated policies when negotiating with crossbenchers on contentious legislation. The opposition referred Meddick to the anti-corruption commission because his daughter got a two-week paid position at the firefighters’ union in the same year the bill passed, but Meddick said his child had won the position on merit. Meddick rejects allegations of trade-offs, claiming they are levelled by “ineffective” crossbenchers. The cosy cabal gives Andrews very close to total control of both houses,” says David Davis, the opposition’s upper house leader.Īfter the Premier himself, these politicians have become public enemies one, two and three for Victoria’s growing anti-government protest movement, an amorphous group fuelled by the economic and social harm caused by lockdowns, opposition to vaccine mandates and vaccines themselves, and infused with conspiracies imported from Donald Trump’s America as well as violent political imagery. They vote commonly with the government and have given it a majority in the upper house for state of emergency extensions and its pandemic bill, which was negotiated exclusively with the trio before being derailed. Patten, along with Animal Justice Party MP Andy Meddick and Greens leader Samantha Ratnam, are Victoria’s three most important crossbenchers. Patten ended up clinging to her seat, but Andrews’ words cemented the view of Coalition MPs that she is too closely linked to the government’s agenda to call herself an independent. “I think that is a loss to the Parliament,” he said, adding that he would be happy to offer Patten a government job to “make the place fairer and stronger”. This is getting really frustrating as no one seems to know what's going on.Two days after Labor’s 2018 election win, Daniel Andrews was downcast at the prospect of losing independent Fiona Patten from Parliament.
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