For some young people,it’s “life-saving”. Victoria has funded Melbourne Youth Orchestras since it was established in 1967. That could end this year.
Both Labor and the Coalition would raid Victoria’s rainy-day fund to scrape together a budget surplus in the next term of government.
Global credit rating agency Standard& Poor’s says Victoria has the weakest fiscal position of any Australian state since it started keeping records in the 1980s.
The Andrews government says the pre-election budget update highlights the financial impact of extreme weather events such as the recent Victorian floods.
Victoria has the highest debt as a proportion of its economy since the early 1970s. Does it matter? And what would the Treasurer and his shadow do about it?
The drunken behaviour of Liberal MPs Tim Smith and David Davis will be at the centre of a new Labor attack advertisement targeting Opposition Leader Matthew Guy.
The state government’s 1.5 per cent wage cap could be scrapped before hundreds of thousands of teachers,police,nurses and public servants go back to the bargaining table.
Kew was once Liberal Party heartland. But after a drink-driving scandal and successive swings against the party,it’s now a marginal seat with an intriguing preselection vote to be held this weekend.
The state government borrowed $9.5 billion and recorded a $6.8 billion deficit between June and September,figures the opposition says makes for grim reading.
At least five sitting Liberal MPs will face preselection challenges,in what will lead to months of infighting as the opposition tries to refocus its sights on Premier Daniel Andrews.