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When Eddie McGuire revealed that Daniel Andrews was resigning at the AFL grand final lunch, 10 minutes before the news was announced, the who’s who of the city’s business and sports community erupted into cheers.
Victorian premiers are entitled to be memorialised in bronze near Parliament House once they pass 3,000 days in office - a milestone Mr Andrews hit on February 20.
Jacinta Allan is the favourite to replace Daniel Andrews as Victorian Labor premier despite being the minister in charge of the state's cancelled Commonwealth Games bid.
Victorians will pay a hefty price for decades after state gross debt exploded to above $200 billion, as borrowing costs for governments hit the highest rate in 15 years.
It's been almost five years since Hassan Khalif Shire Ali went on a 19-second stabbing rampage in Melbourne 's CBD, knifing much-loved Pellegrini's Expresso Bar co-owner Sisto Malaspina to death.