It’s not hard to see why Michael O’Brien’s leadership of the Liberal party in Victoria had become so tenuous before his resignation earlier this month when you consider the party’s failure to take a stand on freedom of speech.
For 18 months the state government has exercised arbitrary and dictatorial powers in the total absence of parliamentary oversight or democratic accountability.
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Morgan Begg is the director of the Legal Rights Program at the Institute of Public Affairs
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