Daniel Andrews is on track for a third term in Victoria, but risks losing ground in safe seats

Labor is likely to secure a rare third parliamentary term, but departing MPs warn it will lose support for parachuting in non-local candidates

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The 59th parliament of Victoria has been anything but boring. In the past two years there's been a leadership spill, a finding of branch stacking, a catastrophic fall down slippery steps, a drunken car crash, dozens of protests, Covid-19 outbreaks, resignations, defections, a visit from a lamb in a diaper and a resident fox - and that's without mentioning the work that goes on inside the building.

Having wrapped up the final sitting week on Wednesday - dumping 52 documents on the way out, including a scathing auditor general report on the suburban rail loop - Daniel Andrews will now begin campaigning for a third term in office.

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