Ten years later, anti-corruption report solves the Dan Andrews mysteries of 2016

It’s been 10 years since the events of 2016 that led Victoria’s anti-corruption agency IBAC to start looking into the Andrews government’s deal with the firefighters’ union. The long-awaited release of IBAC’s “Operation Richmond” report yesterday revealed how “the premier, ministers, senior government MPs and top bureaucrats ran secret backroom operations, misled cabinet, purged public boards and capitulated — over and over again — to relentless pressure from the long-serving head of the firefighters’ union,” in the words of The Age.