VICTORIANS may have sighed in relief at the resignation of Daniel Andrews but this tired Labor government can’t manage Victoria, leaving you to pay more for less.
The track record of our new premier is deeply concerning for a state desperately in need of a fresh start. In fact, Victorians have been duded with her selection by the Labor machine.
Some Victorians talk about Jacinta Allan being handed a poisoned chalice, but the reality is her fingerprints are all over it.
The fact remains Jacinta Allan has been in parliament for half of her life and her tenure has been riddled with failures.
Just last year, she and Mr Andrews promised a Commonwealth Games in regional Victoria. With Allan as Minister for Commonwealth Games Delivery, it was then unceremoniously cancelled with more than $600 million due to be wasted.
As a regional member of parliament and the minister responsible for the Games, we would have expected Allan to champion investments in and the promotion of our regional towns, businesses and communities.
She failed to champion regional Victoria then, and there’s little hope she will now.
There’s also been $30 billion of cost overruns on her other projects. That’s part of the $200 billion of debt that Victorian is set to have, a figure that will blow out further with her pet Suburban Rail Loop.
Our roads must be fixed, you must be able to get a hospital bed, you must be able to get a police and ambulance response when you need one, and we need a sensible transition to renewables that won’t drive people broke with the skyrocketing cost of energy.
Victoria is in a worse position than I can recall and Jacinta Allan has been an integral part of the government that has overseen Victoria’s demise.
It’s time for a government that governs for all people, but Daniel Andrews’ understudy will only deliver more of the same.
Peter Walsh
Leader of The Nationals
