It is said that people get the government they deserve (“Victoria cannot afford more of Andrews’ Labor”, November 24). But it is no longer quite as simple as that. Electoral redistributions, clever preference deals and huge publicity campaigns have a big influence on electoral outcomes.

In Victoria’s situation, there is a case for voters to be worried about the burgeoning government debt and the seeming unwillingness or inability of an Andrews-led government to put the state on a safer economic footing.