b"The Great Eastern Mail DECEMBER 2, 2022 07crossword across the tableACROSS1. Death notices6. Smoke & fog10. Groups of thieves11. Pick on unjustly12. Stammers14. Reverie16. Intercepts en route18. Aspiring movie queen20. Arbitrate22. Leakage23. Rental contract25. Spiny lobster28. Disregarded29. Late Princess of Wales31. Casserole32. YouthDOWN1. Debauched party2. Public house3. Disturbed4. Write-ups5. Sheathes7. Cereal plant8. Brain tissue (4,6)9. Budgerigar home13. Trifled Third term lucky15. Bogs17. Emerged from sleep19. Spends time idly21. Het up22. Notorious affair24. Bicker26. Decreases Generally speaking, would have been betterdefined new start. 27. Electrical power unit with Will Bedggood losing that third election.At this point, however, 30. One-spot card Cains third term failure isAndrews seems less likely Fill the grid so that every column, every rowsudoku T HE State electionclear: cataclysmic economicto stumble than either of his wasnt really a contestand financial events andsuccessful peers because and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. between Left and Rightsuccessful administration dohes already well into ait was about the Premier,not mix. The Party in power isfundamental re-set of his DIFFICULTY: HHHHH 3042 DIFFICULTY: HHHHH 3043 Daniel Andrews, and whetherlikely to sink and thats whatGovernment by turning over SOLUTIONS CAN BEFOUND ON PAGE 15voters wanted him to stickhappened from 1989 to 1991.so many of the old faces in around. They did alrightso,Its not so clear in the casehis cabinet. Martin Foley, what can Victoria expect ofof Bracks and Brumby, exceptLisa Neville, Richard Wynne, Andrews third term?that Brumby would haveMartin Pakula, and James Successful third termsmade a better Premier hadMerlino may have their own are elusive for a number ofhe won his election and notreasons for leaving State reasons, and its sometimessimply inherited power frompolitics; but Andrews doesnt said in retrospect by insidersa clearly tired Bracks. He hadlook at all upset. This term that a Government wouldto wear the impact of Bracks'will be all about a whole lot of have been better off had itmistakes and was unable tonewbies and thats very well lost. John Cains third term, forpull off a clear re-set fromtimed to give a new look to his instance, was an unparalleledGovernment that would haveGovernment at the beginning disaster. His 1988 victory wasbeen more effective fromof Andrews third term.just in time for a monumentalOpposition. When he finallyA policy re-set is a different burst of boom and bustwent to his own electionmatter. Its hard giving up level that saw Cain and thenhe looked like the same oldcrossing removals when they word find - World Cup Fever his successor Joan Kirnerbrand. work so well electorate by take the blame for mostWill it seem in four yearselectorate. Already The Big forms of human folly beforetime that Daniel AndrewsBuild is getting old, and thats A H Q E C N A R F Y S L E V L U Cain resigned and Kirnerwould have been better offbefore the huge outer ring proceeded directly to losing this last election? It israil project Andrews keeps N G G A E W O M M L P P T N Q L a crushing electoral loss.hard to imagine how Andrewstouting even gets going. But Steve Bracks won threecould ever have lost this lastthe rebuilding the SECthis elections, but hed reallyelection, especially now wesounds like the beginning of O N C Y T C G T U A A J Z B A F run out of steam by theknow even more about thesomething new and different third and handed over thecampaigning incompetencefor a younger generation who D C M D I A G W L T I E R C H K leadership to John Brumby aof the Liberal Party. Buthave no idea what a dog the few months later. Although asetting that aside, the answeroriginal SEC became. A A U X A E R R L I N A H S L C top operator, Brumby lackedwill lie in whether Andrews isThe hard bit for Andrews the more kindly, empatheticcapable of fundamentally re- is whether he can re-set R G E R M A N Y E R Z Y V Q E Q personality of his predecessorsetting his Government.Victorias finances in time for and lost the election heCains failure was to pursuethe next recession. Cain failed A M B E E W X B R I M F W N H K should have won. There wasmore of the same after 1988:that one and paid the price. no disaster but no genuinemore debts, more fundingBracks and Brumby didnt M P L E G Z R A L O D L A N O R re-set either and the Brumbyrisky businesses and morehave to because the memory Government lost largelyarguments with ungratefulof Cains failure was seared J E D G L N I K N G F X U P K D because voters thought it wasunions. Bracks and Brumbysinto them. But Andrews is a time to give the other side failure was to stick to a fairlydebt junkie and economic a go. unexciting, steady hand stylecycles have a habit of catching P M Q I X G C D M I Y H V H A D Are there any lessonsof political narrative, bereftup with politicians like him. from these two third termsof excitement and inspiringIf hes really smart Andrews A E P X U M I X A T T H X R L M for Daniel Andrews? In bothideas. Neither third termwill trim the sails. But that cases the ALP probablycontained a clear and well- could be a re-set too far. 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