Elections are meant to be a contest of ideas. But with a little more than a week to go until Victorians cast their ballots, this campaign has become a battle for the biggest scandal.
In the space of a couple of hours on Thursday morning, it emerged that both Daniel Andrews and Matthew Guy were being referred to the state’s anti-corruption watchdog – the former by the Liberals and the latter by the Victorian Electoral Commission. The VEC, at around the same time, was at a tribunal thrashing it out with teal independent candidates, several of whom it threatened with jail time over their distribution of blank how-to-vote cards. The teals won their case, however.
