Jul 27, 2026 – 5.54pmAs Jacinta Allan’s grip on the Labor leadership began to unravel, she became increasingly erratic in her fight for self-preservation.She wrote an opinion piece apologising for organised criminals running amok on Victoria’s Big Build; plotted a secret plan to establish an Organised Crime Agency within Victoria Police; flirted with the politically poisonous idea of allowing councils to hike their rates above inflation to curry favour with the powerful Australian Services Union and promised the shoppies, another powerful union, that she was finally going to deliver on its years-long demands for workplace orders to protect retail workers.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles