Bucking

• For decades spring's most famous horse racing events have been synonymous with mint juleps, but this year Fireball is flipping the script.
• "For 149 years (give or take), people have worn the same outrageous hats and drank the same boring drinks... until now.
• Most importantly, this style offers secret compartments to discreetly hold the most necessary of companions: multiple Fireball 50mL shooters.
• Visit FireballWhisky.com to learn more about Fireball Hot Lids, and stay up to date on all things Fireball by following @FireballWhisky on Instagram and Facebook .

• The campaign kicks off with an official proclamation from C.W., the infamous 10-gallon-hat-wearing cowboy mayor of Crazytown, who declares January to be Crazy Dry January.
• Fun videos teach viewers how to make delicious and refreshing mocktails that feature generous helpings of Crazy Water, like the Crazy-tini.
• The campaign aligns perfectly with Crazy Water and Mineral Wells' new status as the Wellness Capital of Texas.
• Crazy Dry January is the latest round of crazy creative that's turning this challenger water brand into a household name across Texas.

• Toronto, Ontario, Nov. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Experience a year in the lives of artisanal winemakers and growers in Ontario’s Niagara Region.
• Together, they’re creating a serious winemaking region from the soil up.”
  "All of the winemakers/winegrowers in Crush are stewards of the soil.
• With Jamaican family roots and deep ties to the Niagara Region, Ann-Marie Saunders has devoted herself to labour-intensive regenerative farming.
• Crush also features Thomas Bachelder, who trained in Burgundy and now devotes himself to exploring the varying terroir of the Niagara Region.

• Daniel Andrews, who has announced he will step down after nearly nine years as premier, leaves office as a titan of Victorian politics.
• An activist premier, a gifted political communicator and a hard man of politics, he has been an enormously consequential leader and one of national significance.
• He is the fourth-longest serving premier in Victorian history, and the longest-serving Labor premier.

The hard man rises

• The first that it’s his natural style – Andrews is a classic strong leader, command and control is his modus operandi.
• Victoria’s infrastructure was run down and no longer fit for purpose, unable to cope with its booming population.
• Andrews understood that in Victoria, perhaps more than anywhere else in Australia, there was leeway to pursue a progressive social agenda.
• Read more:
  'A political force of nature': despite scandals and a polarising style, can 'Dan' do it again in Victoria?

A democratic deficit

• On law and order, for example, his instincts were conservative.
• For example, on his watch discriminatory bail laws contributed to Indigenous Australians being incarcerated in disproportionate numbers.
• He has also chafed at being accountable, leading to a democratic deficit on his watch.

#IstandwithDan v #DictatorDan

• His daily press conferences during the darkest days of the crisis were eagerly watched across the nation.
• With the harshest and longest lockdowns in the country, social media gave the impression of a deeply polarised state: those who said #IstandwithDan and those who were enraged by #DictatorDan.
• Read more:
  Strong political leaders are electoral gold – but the trick is in them knowing when to stand down

The Dan vacuum

• In more recent times his forcefulness had morphed into something darker.
• His going in that sense is a healthy thing: it will disturb the power relations that have centred on him.
• He will leave an enormous vacuum, both in the party he has led for 13 years and the government he’s led for nine.
• Whoever becomes premier will have to tackle some significant economic challenges, including ballooning infrastructure spending, and the fallout from massive COVID spending.