Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu stumbles in John Brumby’s footsteps

Baillieu and Brumby

Premier Ted Baillieu has been accused of recycling words used by John Brumby. Picture: Herald Sun 
Source: Herald Sun




PREMIER Ted Baillieu has been caught recycling spin in an extremely embarrassing gaffe.


Almost a year to the day since the former Labor government issued a press release spruiking a $55 million redevelopment of the MCG’s Great Southern Stand, the incumbent Premier’s office issued a press release ripping off his predecessor’s words.

Quotes attributed to Mr Baillieu are identical to those attributed to Mr Brumby last year, while quotes from Andrew Demetriou and John Wylie have also been recycled.

Only subtle changes – such as swapping the name Brumby for Baillieu – were made to the release issued by the Coalition on Wednesday.

Government spokesman Simon Troeth would not explain how matching words were included yesterday other than to state “any similarity was not intentional”.

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Opposition scrutiny of government spokesman Martin Pakula had a lot more to say about the Government’s “week from hell”, which also included a mistake-riddled press conference by Treasurer Kim Wells and an email sent from Benambra MP Bill Tilley’s office promoting a bomb hoax at federal Parliament.

“When I first saw the two media releases my first thought was that Milli Vanilli must have got a job in the Premier’s media unit,” he said. “If you did this in a high school exam you would get a big fat F.

“We’ve had Hannah Montana apparently making planning policy.”

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