To understand the damage the growing list of Big Build outrages is doing to Labor’s re-election prospects, you only need to take a whiff of what the government just threw on the table.

At precisely the same time that Premier Jacinta Allan was being grilled in parliament about a company owned by awful men exploiting a program intended to promote women in the construction industry, one of her advisers texted through to say they’d found a sculptor to make Daniel Andrews’ statue.

The Age’s digital mock-up of the proposed statue of former premier Daniel Andrews.…