Sweeping hospital mergers on table after Victoria’s bad-news budget
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Sweeping hospital mergers on table after Victoria’s bad-news budget

Victoria’s 76 health services could be slashed to 12 in an efficiency-driven overhaul revealed as the government dropped a budget notable for soaring debt,higher taxes,stalled projects and abandoned promises.

  • byAisha Dow,Annika Smethurst andKieran Rooney

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Victoria the ‘basket case’ state:This debt isn’t like a household mortgage
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Victoria the ‘basket case’ state:This debt isn’t like a household mortgage

Most home owners understand that if you are serious about getting your mortgage under control,you can’t keep borrowing more money to pay for other things.

  • byChip Le Grand
More than 100 projects delayed as blowouts hit bottom line
Victorian budget

More than 100 projects delayed as blowouts hit bottom line

Delays will affect signature projects in education,health and housing as the government shields the budget from rising costs.

  • byKieran Rooney
Victorian budget 2024 as it happened:Cuts,delays,taxes revealed as treasurer hands down state budget
Victorian budget

Victorian budget 2024 as it happened:Cuts,delays,taxes revealed as treasurer hands down state budget

The Victorian treasurer delivered his 10th budget which both he and Premier Jacinta Allan pressed was “sensible and disciplined” amid burgeoning state debt.

  • byAlex Crowe
Arden hospitals ditched over Metro Tunnel electromagnetic interference
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Arden hospitals ditched over Metro Tunnel electromagnetic interference

Interference from the new Metro Tunnel station at Arden has forced the Victorian government to ditch a $5 billion plan to build new hospital campuses there.

  • byAisha Dow andCara Waters
School bonus divides as rich reap benefits and poorer private areas miss out
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School bonus divides as rich reap benefits and poorer private areas miss out

Public school students in wealthy suburbs will get $400 each to help with learning costs while their private peers in poorer areas miss out.

  • byRachel Eddie andRobyn Grace
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Video:Victorian budget 2024 explained in two minutes
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Video:Victorian budget 2024 explained in two minutes

Treasurer Tim Pallas’ 10th budget is full of bad news and a $25 million-a-day interest bill.

  • byKieran Rooney
Cuts,delays and taxes in bad-news budget that fails to rein in debt
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Cuts,delays and taxes in bad-news budget that fails to rein in debt

Treasurer Tim Pallas’ 10th budget includes payments of $400 per child for the families of children in Victorian public schools. But it’s the only bit of good news in a budget that leaves Victoria with a $25 million-a-day interest bill.

  • byAnnika Smethurst andKieran Rooney
The budget is brimming with hairy-chested spin. But the reality is far more nuanced
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The budget is brimming with hairy-chested spin. But the reality is far more nuanced

Treasurer Tim Pallas says the budget aims to tackle two really big problems:high inflation and workforce shortages. But if you take the coming financial year as a benchmark,the reality is far more nuanced.

  • byJosh Gordon
The boastful Daniel Andrews tweet that is no longer fit for purpose
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The boastful Daniel Andrews tweet that is no longer fit for purpose

Soft tacos or crunchy tacos? We have to choose because Victoria can’t have both - despite promises from now-departed premier Daniel Andrews.

  • byAnnika Smethurst
How much money COVID-19 era taxes are raking in for Victoria
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How much money COVID-19 era taxes are raking in for Victoria

These graphs break down expected sources of tax revenue,whether the budget will be in deficit over the coming years and the scale of Victoria’s debt.

  • byCraig Butt