The Andrews government couldn’t hold a royal commission into 800 deaths last year, but has now established a commission into what supposedly happened some two centuries back, according to Sky News host Peta Credlin.

“With Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews recovering in hospital from a nasty fall, we of course wish him a speedy recovery,” Ms Credlin said.

“Because the premier is out of action, does not put the government he dominates off limits for criticism, as hardly a day goes by without something getting worse”.

Victoria is set to have a formal commission into the injustices of colonisation; the inquiry will investigate the ongoing effects of colonisation in the state’s Indigenous community.

“This new study will have all the powers of a Royal Commission, the Andrews government trumpeted yesterday,” Ms Credlin said.

“Can you see the rank hypocrisy here?”

“It’s asking people today, to give sworn evidence about events they can’t possibly have witnessed nor been responsible for, yet this is a premier and his ministers who couldn’t even tell us the truth about what they did and didn’t do last year.”

Ms Credlin said she wants to know where the Liberal Opposition are on this colonisation commission because “their silence today has been deafening”.

“While Andrews is bad, the Opposition needs to be a hell of a lot better too.”