Time for the Victorian Liberal clown show to get serious
The dysfunctional opposition can’t “do a Dutton” and go to the polls with a bare policy cupboard: it needs to spell out what it will do and how it will be paid for.
Accounting for one-quarter of Australia’s population and economy, when Victoria prospers, Australia prospers. But the Garden State is an overgrown, weed-infested tangle, governed by a fiscally incontinent Labor Party for most of the past 45 years.
Current premier Jacinta Allan presides over eye-watering debt and poor credit ratings; Australia’s highest-taxing regime; borrowing-funded and hugely over-budget infrastructure projects, including Melbourne’s never-never Suburban Rail Loop; resource-starved schools, hospitals, police and roads; and hard-left social policy.
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Terry Barnes is a Liberal Party member and policy consultant who formerly advised federal and Victorian Liberal ministers.
