Election results wrap
The results of the State Election ended up being largely in accordance with the opinion polls and the betting odds.
As expected, the ALP did not lose any of the seats on its side of the pendulum to the Coalition and picked up the four other marginals with Labor incumbents, which had become notionally Liberal after the redistribution. Labor then clinched victory by winning back at least three, and probably four, of the seats on the Frankston line, despite train punctuality having improved since 2010.
Out of the 88 Legislative Assembly seats there look like being only two, or possibly three, seats where a favourite was beaten – Shepparton, Melbourne and maybe Prahran.
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The first 100 days
We can turn to the recent past for guidance on the times ahead.
Daniel Andrews and his team have taken heed of the shortcomings of the Baillieu Government – particularly its tone-setting first 12 months – for a guide on what not to do.
What to expect in the first 100 days
The new Andrews ministry
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Hot off the press, here’s the new Cabinet lineup with portfolio responsibilities, as announced this morning.
The addition of Jaala Pulford and Jane Garrett to the frontbench in place of Brian Tee and Danielle Green are the only personnel changes, and have necessitated a minor reshuffle of portfolios.
Jacinta Allan in Public Transport, Jill Hennessy in Health, and Richard Wynne in Planning are the major portfolio changes post-election.
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Victoria's new top bureaucrat
Sunday, the day after election day, saw the resignation of seasoned public servant and Public Service Medal winner, Department of Premier and Cabinet Secretary, Andrew Tongue and the announcement of Chris Eccles as his replacement. The Secretary of DPC is paid twice as much as the Premier, oversees over 300,000 state employees.
Chris Eccles has a storied career in the public service, having held the top job in two other states, South Australia and New South Wales, most recently resigning from Director-General of the Department of Premier and Cabinet in New South Wales after Barry O'Farrell left the Premiership. Eccles was also an assistant secretary in the ACT Chief Minister’s Department at the beginning of his public service career, and later a legal advisor to the federal government.
Before ascending to Chief Executive of the Department of Premier and Cabinet in South Australia in 2009, Chris Eccles occupied key roles in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet: Deputy Secretary of the Sector Improvement Group, Deputy Secretary of the National Reform and Climate Change Group, Chair of the COAG Skills and Workforce Development Committee.
Chris Eccles has experience in a key battleground area of this election campaign, the TAFE sector, having managed intergovernmental relations for the national vocational education and training sector body, the Australian National Training Authority, also heading up the national education consulting practice as an Associate Director of KPMG.
Based on his most recent tenure as Director-General of NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet, we can reasonably expect Chris Eccles to modernise the Victorian public service, with a strong emphasis on service delivery and keeping pace with technological change. Having overseen the roll-out of Services NSW, a program where the public access government transactions from a single shopfront, phone number or website, on par with private sector service quality, in his three years at NSW DPC, it's clear that Chris Eccles will move quickly to reform the public service in Victoria.
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