Jacinta Allan has run hard with the Labor pack in Victoria.

But now, singled out by excellent journalism, exposed, and looking weak amongst the herd, Jacinta can’t hide.

The Victorian Labor Premier must resign.

If she does not, she will show, like Premier Andrews before her, that she has no shame. No standards. And no understanding of the Westminster concept of responsible government…

In the wake of very public allegations relating to CFMEU made by the Age and 60 Minutes, the Labor government cannot continue to fashion their faces into expressions of shock and sincerity and expect voters to believe them.

For years, Ms Allan has donned hi-vis vests and work boots to wander around government construction sites with cameras in tow. The Big Build and its Big Bills are hers. So too are the $40 billion blowouts.

If she is happy to present herself as a down-in-the-dirt Minister, all but shovel in hand, then presumably she knows the details of each site. That’s the image she and the Labor media machine have cultivated.

Until now.

It seems the Premier would prefer us to believe that, despite the hi-vis, she knows nothing at all.

A Bendigo girl, Ms Allan entered the Victorian Parliament in 1999. She was gonged with her first portfolio in 2002 as the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs under Premier Steve Bracks, a boy from neighbouring Ballarat. It was in that same election year that her great mentor, Daniel Andrews, entered the Victorian Parliament.

The Labor machine moved on and she continued climbing the ladder, taking on bigger and bigger budgets with bigger and bigger consequences.

If we had to look for one MP in the Victorian government who should be all over the state’s construction industry, it is Jacinta Allan.

In 2016 she held the Major Projects portfolio. In 2020 she had the Priority Precincts portfolio for three months. She became the Minister for Transport Infrastructure in December 2018 till December 2022.

One of her greatest successes must, of course, be as the Minister for Commonwealth Games Delivery – perhaps better described as the Minister for Commonwealth Games Non-Delivery.

She was the Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop in June 2020 to October 2023 – the project that burst into the 2018 State Election as a $50 billion promise – totally unplanned. It is a status that doesn’t seem to have changed and is now expected to cost four times the original estimate.

Then in 2022 she also became the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure.

One must ask, with a catalogue of Ministerial portfolios so deeply entrenched in building and construction over many years, how is it that Jacinta Allan missed the concerning detail regarding government construction sites in Victoria? Is this the mark of serious incompetence by the state government?

Like her fellow Labor comrade in NSW, Kristina Kenneally, it is my view that this Premier has failed up and up.

Whatever happened to due diligence on government contracts?

For an MP who recently used a meme of three-eyed fish to scoff at Peter Dutton’s plans for nuclear energy in Australia, it’s funny that Ms Allan has three blind eyes on issues closer to home.

Eyes wide shut?

Her move to report the CFMEU matter to IBAC made me laugh. This is the same Labor Party that called one of the most recent IBAC and damning reports into alleged corruption as ‘educational’.

If the Victorian state government knows nothing of the CFMEU dealings, then we have a problem with the government.

If this were any other Minister facing such embarrassment, that Minister would be gone.

In this instance, the Minister to blame is the Premier.

If she had a skerrick of pride, she would step down today. Her colleagues should force the matter if needs be.

One day, the Premier might even apologise for such enormous failings.

That said, holding your breath is not recommended.