It’s catching up spending where we needed to for the last decade.
We are increasing assets, not just spending on nothing.
You take on debt to build the extension. We pay it back when rates will eventually fall.
So we are buying for the future as opposed to borrowing to go on holidays.
GGS ?
Geelong Grammar School
Gay Gypsy Sex
Go Get Stuffed
Or what ?
open a Colosseum where billionaires fight to the death for the right to rort us?
Ok, so that reads like the reasons why you’re (and presumably many many others ) not concerned . It doesn’t appear to be the context in which the Aud G has framed their findings. Unless of course they’re just a standard non-committal bureaucracy summary that actually means and indicates nothing. Which it may well be.
Once our hundred year projects for rail and road are done we’ll be laughing.
Should’ve just built the East West then - cost don’t matter - so I stop getting stuck in gridlocked Flemington traffic 
It would’ve been interesting to know what the contract was besides the cancellation bill.
Should’ve been built.
It’s just blatant corruption.
The VIC government has simply approved any construction project, without cost-benefit analysis, to funnel funds to their construction union supporter base.
Projects budgets blow out, they don’t care (by the way, a budget blow out does not logically create a more valuable asset…regardless of what the flakey accounting says).
There won’t be any return on these projects. It’s not like they’re collecting tolls.
The Commonwealth Games is the perfect example. It was being run in regional locations to create an excuse for more construction work…then they realised that they wouldn’t have anything built by the Games’ inbuilt deadline…so they pulled out. And yet they say they will build the facilities anyway. Why would they do that? Because it’s just an excuse for raiding the state balance sheet.
Generally speaking governments don’t build infrastructure to “get a return” in simple monetary benefit. They build them to better the road and rail systems to help the public for longer term.
I think he has failed to show strength of leadership in denouncing anti Jewish hated and admonishing the more aggressive acts and protests. I think he’s tried to take a middle ground position, aware he doesn’t want to offend Muslim voters in seats that he views important electorally.
Hard agree.
I’d rather a one term ALP go out and make some genuine differences, than be so vanilla, and still get booted out.
It’s why the Andrews government was so popular, I think. Genuine progressive mindset and change, and FU to the media haters and smooth brains.
And don’t @ me
If there’s no mining in your state, there really isn’t much opportunity to raise revenue aside from car registration and stamp duty on property.
This is why Victoria is behind the curb on the likes of Queensland, WA and NSW.
Exactly. Many US towns and cities are virtually next to ruin because of decades of negligence in planning and infrastructure expenditure. Sure, question the planning, but it’s madness to question the need. Remember when the LNP started pork barrelling for car parks where they weren’t needed last election - I think that was their concession to infrastructure, all too late and vapid in any case. Short termism followed by another term of wrecking in opposition and claims of taxpayer $ waste etc.
Palestinians are also human and the marches around the world are to support their cause. They are 99.9 % peaceful.
It’s a blatant exaggeration to suggest that they have had an anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic character.
Sorry Davo, but that is disengenous.
Hamas are a banned group by Aussie Government and their actions have been strongly condemned. The Israeli response has been brutal and again rightly condemned.
Not sure what more any Government could do or say about the violent protests, but lawful protest is just that and needs to be supports well.
Anti-semitism and hate is just another example of the the division in our society and I can honestly say that the Labor Party is not the culprit in any of this. Look at what Dutton and the other fascists are doing.
I have long been a supporter of Israel but I cannot support their Government. Does not make me anti semetic
In fact what you you suggest? Police arresting all those who protest against the Israeli response?
We have lots of gas in Victoria but …….the Andrew’s government wasn’t keen on that
Cause the miners said no, we are exporting it. Fark you vic.
They could just not be the ALP is what dmapes is saying. You know that. He doesn’t give 2 shitts about actual responses to this stuff, its just another stick to beat with. ‘Social cohesion’, yeah the fabric was definitely torn on this one. Meanwhile, ‘migrants are taking our jerbs!’, crickets.
More of a comment on protests in general but Melbourne needs a sydney style permit system.
The one where they showed up and ruined the Christmas windows was disgraceful
Maybe but there was no violence , unlike what is happening to kids in Gaza.
It is hard for us to have perspective