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. Matt Davidson This, my friends, is what is known in politics as a dead cat. The idea is that, when you are in serious trouble, you distract everyone by announcing or leaking something so malodorous, it immediately changes the conversation.…