Victorian Labor's scandals under Andrews
SCANDALS THAT HAVE ROCKED THE ANDREWS' GOVERNMENT:
ADEM SOMYUREK BULLYING
* In 2014, Mr Somyurek was made small business, innovation, and trade minister after Labor won the election
* In May 2015, he stood down from cabinet after his then-chief of staff Dimity Paul accused Mr Somyurek of bullying, which he denied
* He resigns in July 2015 after an investigation by the Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet
PATCH AND TED
* In November 2016, Steve Herbert, then-member for Northern Victoria and the training and skills minister resigned for using his tax-payer funded driver to chauffeur his two dogs, Patch and Ted, between his Melbourne and Trentham homes
* Mr Herbert told parliament he'd organised for his dogs to be driven without him, but didn't know how many times as the trips weren't logged
* The former MP paid back $192.80 in travel expenses for the trips and donated $1000 to a Woodend animal shelter
* Left parliament in 2017
SECOND HOME ALLOWANCE
* In 2017 former Speaker Telmo Languiller and his deputy Don Nardella were involved in rorting an allowance for country members, prompting their resignations
* Mr Languiller represented Tarneit but claimed the allowance to live in Queenscliff in 2016
* He repaid the $38,000 claimed and did not recontest the election
* Mr Nardella claimed the allowance since 2010, first living in Ballarat and later in seaside Ocean Grove
* He initially quit the Labor Party rather than agree to Premier Daniel Andrews' demand to pay back $98,000
* Mr Nardella later agreed to a payment plan that includes regular deductions and a $16,000 lump sum
* The scandal resulted in the creation of the tribunal meant to take pay issue out of the control of MPs themselves
ROBIN SCOTT
* In April 2019, former Victoria's assistant treasurer paid back $60,000 in allowances he unknowingly received as part of his government pay packet
* The Preston MP received the payments, meant for country MPs who have to stay in Melbourne during parliamentary sittings, between 2014 and 2016
RED SHIRTS
* The Labor party misused $388,000 in parliamentary allowances to pay political campaign staff during the 2014 election
* About 21 past and present Labor MPs breached parliamentary guidelines when staff were diverted to help campaign for members
* The rort was subject a police investigation spanning more than 12 months and no criminal charges were laid
* Despite going into the November 2018 state election with the investigation hanging over its head, Labor returned to power with an increased majority in the lower house
PRINTING CASH FOR STACKS
* Upper House MP Khalil Eideh's electoral office was accused of misusing printing allowances to fund party branch stacking
* A parliamentary-wide audit found questionable invoices, which were referred to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission and his office office was later shut
* He resigned as deputy president in October 2017, then retired at the 2018 election
* IBAC charged three people - including two former electorate officers - with a total of 13 charges in 2018
* Among those charged, Labor staffer Angela Scarpaci, 28, was sentenced in court in 2019 to a two-year community corrections order after pleading guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice and perjury over her involvement
JANE GARRETT AND THE CFA
* Former emergency services minister Jane Garrett quit cabinet rather than sign off on a controversial firefighters' union pay deal in 2016
* The same year, she was physically attacked on the street and was also diagnosed with breast cancer
* The former Victorian minister lost her pre-selection bid for the state's upper house, after deciding to leave the marginal seat of Brunswick at the 2018 state election
* She remains in parliament serving the Eastern Victoria electorate in the Legislative Council
ADEM SOMYUREK 2020
* The former local government minister is accused of handing over cash and using parliamentary employees to create fake members to amass political power
* He was the first of three ministers to lose their ministerial portfolios, with Robin Scott and then Marlene Kairouz stepping down
* He was reinstated to the ministry in 2018, after the premier said Mr Somyurek had made a case he'd changed after the 2015 scandal
