Tuesday’s budget represents an opportunity for the state’s first Labor government in a decade to define itself as more than a reaction to the Coalition.
His vision as premier from the outset was unashamedly humble: resourcing hospitals to ease the queues outside emergency departments and staffing issues in wards; handing public sector workers a pay bump to keep them from; and building more schools so that parents wouldn’t blanch at kids in packed classrooms. He wanted to do more to bring energy prices down, and he wanted to run the rule over the state’s $112 billion infrastructure pipeline to make sure it delivered value for money.
It’s understandable to tread carefully and to spend time getting the lay of the land after 12 years in the wilderness, and for a team which, for the most part, has only ever known life in opposition. But it’s a stark contrast to fellow Labor governments that have hit the ground running from opposition with high-stakes engagements and action on a raft of tenure-defining policy commitments.
In Victoria, Daniel Andrews took office with a pledge to remove 50 level crossings, firing the start gun on a decade of unparallelled infrastructure spending, jacked even higher by a willingness to pay more than $1 billion to kill off the former government’s proposed East West Link.
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