{"id":829959,"date":"2026-07-28T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829959\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:34:10","slug":"victorian-labor-leadership-live-premier-ben-carroll-mulls-cabinet-appointments-following-jacinta-allans-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829959\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Labor leadership LIVE: Premier Ben Carroll mulls cabinet appointments following Jacinta Allan\u2019s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Labor premier Steve Bracks says Jacinta Allan should have called a royal commission into the construction sector but praised new Premier Ben Carroll for quickly announcing one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that she [Allan] felt that a royal commission wouldn\u2019t achieve the aims that people thought it would,\u201d Bracks just told ABC Radio National, \u201cbut you know that\u2019s water under the bridge now, and essentially, what has happened is that the new premier, Ben Carroll, has moved very quickly, very effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jacinta Allan is announced as a minister in 2002 by then-premier Steve Bracks.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/308e76194efd163ee22e207071fed9e76e617bb4.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Jacinta Allan is announced as a minister in 2002 by then-premier Steve Bracks.Jason South<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the Labor government feared a royal commission, Bracks said he thought it was a \u201cgood thing\u201d and that it would be \u201can effective mechanism of assuring that there is accountability in the building and construction sector in the future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bracks said that Carroll would bring a \u201cfresh approach to government\u201d but warned the November state election would be \u201chand-to-hand combat\u201d in all 88 seats as One Nation <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/politics\/victoria\/even-with-one-nation-support-dropping-state-labor-still-has-reason-to-worry-ahead-of-november-20260713-p60etg.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posed a threat<\/a> alongside the Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>He said Allan had \u201cno option but to resign\u201d but added that she \u201chas been a great contributor in public life in Victoria over a long period of time\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Labor premier Steve Bracks says Jacinta Allan should have called a royal commission into the construction sector&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-829959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}