Tim Pallas has stepped down after delivering his 10th budget,which left Victoria with a forecast net debt of $187.8 billion and gave Labor a hit in the polls.
The deputy premier knows the government is under pressure,but insists they are doing what needs to be done to turn things around.
Nobody should take tips from a politician,but after a decade spent watching them get more and more bland,I have some suggestions.
Vehicles can now travel the full length of the long-awaited alternative to the West Gate Bridge,but the opening date and the price motorists will have to pay remain unknown.
Angelica Di Camillo was originally picked to run in the now-abolished federal seat of Higgins. She will now run for the state seat following the resignation of Greens MP Sam Hibbins.
Jacinta Allan has ruled out running a byelection candidate in Prahran,where it has regularly won 25 to 30 per cent of the vote.
Sources say budget repair has increasingly become a point of contention among key figures in the Allan government,which has considered new fees and offloading Melbourne’s wholesale fruit and vegetable market to reduce state debt.
Sam Hibbins,who quit the Greens three weeks ago after admitting he had an affair with a staff member,said he would resign as the member for Prahran.
The auditor-general has warned that prolonged operating losses and cash deficits are not financially sustainable following a review of the state’s reports for the past financial year.
The political fight over the SRL is heating up as Jacinta Allan and John Pesutto try to find a politically advantageous way through the divisive project.