Victorians are deserting Labor and its own budget contains the reason

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The state’s surging debt and the government’s shelved promises laid out in this month’s budget have sent support for Labor to a fresh, and deep, low.

With Labor’s primary vote now sitting at a paltry 28 per cent, its nearly decade-long political dominance of Victoria looks to be under threat. The tide has well and truly turned., Labor governed at a frenetic pace, rolling out an expansive infrastructure and policy agenda. It also had the unenviable task of

While budgets can often be a blizzard of facts and figures, what they force every government to do is put a number on the cost of every promise it makes. And Labor has never been shy in making big promises. The response from voters speaks to the heart of where the state government has fallen short. Labor has fought every election with a raft of shiny new projects that were never accurately costed or reflective of what the state’s coffers could actually afford.

Source: Loan Digest (loandigest.net)

 

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