It's a well known strategy that organisations with bad news choose to release it on a day where bigger news will overtake it.
The Victorian Government has today confirmed that the Friday before the Grand Final will be a public holiday. Am I being cynical or was it announced today because the Government realises it's a dumb idea and wants to bury it under the Hird resignation and the expected announcement by the AFL of a mega-TV rights deal later today?
Of course, not everyone will think having another public holiday is a bad idea.