Who rules Victoria?

It isn't particularly shocking that inspectors discovered 73% of sites were non-Covid compliant.

As the wildfire Delta strain spreads like honey poured on a hardhat, Victorian Labor responded in almost the only way it knows how, with a heavy-handed edict, in this case banning tearooms.

Obviously, you could sense … ahem… trouble brewing.

Unionists started having high tea on the High Street blocking the CBD thoroughfares.

The Victorian Government reacted by closing all construction sites for two weeks and declaring vaccination mandatory to work in the sector.

A young tradie took his life at a site after this announcement, a story that was underreported.

Suddenly protesters in high-viz gear with standard CFMEU official branding, along with the signifiers of other construction and tradie unions, gathered outside the CFMEU office in central Melbourne.

The CFMEU boss John Setka, attempted to calm things down but retreated inside as the crowd grew angrier.

Melbourne's very busy riot police, looking like a cut-price troop of Star Wars baddies, materialised to eventually quieten things down but not before the offices were damaged.

The next day protesters marched again and ended up at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance war memorial.

Left-leaning outlets, such as the Guardian and the ABC, were very keen to pin these protests on "far-right activists", as were Setka and ACTU leader Sally McManus.

However, The Age, the Guardian and Crikey all admitted the CFMEU office protest impetus came overwhelmingly from unionists.