Daniel Andrews has been praised and panned during near a decade as premier of Victoria


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Dominant, domineering, divisive. Undefeated. Victoria's longest-serving – and Australia's highest-paid — premier is just hours from stepping down after more than 3,200 days leading the state. Various political experts have repeatedly nominated Daniel Andrews's social reforms and public transport projects as the legacies for which he will be remembered. "He's certainly been, I think, the most forthright premier we've had since Jeff Kennett", said La Trobe University politics expert Ian Tulloch. "He doesn't shirk any issues, takes the media critics head on and he's, I think, genuinely proud of his legacy in the state." Daniel Michael Andrews joined the Labor...