General
Victoria keeps its Triple A rating for reckless budget bastardry
Having morphed its deadly 2020 Covid response ‘strategy’ into a popularity triumph with voters the Andrews Victorian government has delivered generational debt in its state budget — the scale of which is truly grotesque.
The government, via its comical Treasurer, Tim Pallas, trained a firehose of cash in the direction of Labor’s core constituencies; inner-city left elites, public sector employees, green zealots, gender and inclusion warriors, the public housing lobby, the unemployed and young.
To put us off the scent that non-Labor aligned constituencies don’t matter there were multi-million dollar programs for aged care, disability services, transport, schools, hospitals and the like. Innovation was even…
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