Freeman’s public resistance to Dan Andrews’s Covid overreach is said to have won him support amongst the local community. Commissioner Bush has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to Freeman’s apprehension; the biggest reward in Australian manhunt history. Partly because shortly after dangling this carrot Mr Bush warned the public somewhat counter-intuitively to stay out of the area. Amongst the stated aims of Gellung Warl, the advisory body Jacinta Allan is championing, is the aboriginalisation of Victorian place names – a process already well under way in what used to be called New Zealand. One that doesn’t just mark the state’s leadership on treaty, but also its eleventh consecutive year of Labor government.