Victoria finishes the year much as it started it. Badly. Very badly.
With the state election still two years away (28 November 2026) Victorians are saddled with a spectacularly incompetent, rotting Labor government and a Liberal Opposition tearing itself apart.
Labor, under Premier Jacinta Allan, continues to wade through the sewer of public administration courtesy of its architect – Daniel Andrews. His shadow hangs heavy across all arms of government in Victoria.
Central command, favoured by socialist leaders the world over, was the order of the day for Andrews. It lasted for him until it didn’t. The stench of his reign remains.
Meanwhile, Allan has neither the political cunning or the gall to manage in the way of her predecessor. Allan merely strikes a pose as someone focused solely on getting through the chaos of each day. She commands neither our attention nor respect.
Every significant social and economic metric relevant to the health of Victoria is in decline. (Not even Year 12 students could escape the incompetence of the state – with some VCE subjects being compromised by leaks and pre-published exam answers online.)
Two years ago – a survey of major national employers found Victoria ranked as the highest-taxing state with the largest public sector and most red tape, making it one of the hardest places in the country in which to do business.
A recent 2024 study by independent economist, Saul Eslake, found household income in Victoria had, for the first time, fallen behind Tasmania.
While taxpayers around the country are hurting thanks to the cost of living and housing crises, it is Victorians who are doing it toughest.
No amount of deceptive bluster from the amateurs in Spring St can conceal the truth that Victoria, under Labor, has become a basket case. Its debt levels are staggering and worsening by the day. The state is haemorrhaging our money!
While for much of the last century, the state was the richest and most powerful state in the nation – it is today very near the bottom on a range of key economic indicators. This unhappy truth is occasioned by Labor’s obscene spending of money it doesn’t have on scaled-up rail projects, coupled with a bloated public sector which mostly hasn’t bothered returning to the office post-Covid. Many appear to have forgotten the very concept of work.
The state’s productivity performance hovers somewhere between the floorboards and the dirt below.
The pitied and pitiful Treasurer, Tim Pallas, makes no apology for hitting the productive participants of the economy with a slew of new taxes, charges, and levies. These are so plentiful – investors and ‘mobile’ individuals are looking to leave the state.
With the shambolic Victorian economy now making headlines interstate and offshore – Labor has formed what it styles as a business council of advisers to assist it rebuild confidence in the government. Good luck with that manoeuvre.
It’s over for Victoria while Labor remains in office. We know it, they know it, Australia knows it.
Victoria is so decrepit – there remains no train service between the CBD and Melbourne airport while interstate train ‘services’ remain essentially unchanged since the 1970s. Shameful is the only way to describe the health, education, transport and policing ‘status quo’ in the state – all thanks to Labor’s stunning, ongoing incompetence.
Looking across the Parliament we see a sad Opposition which is not even match-fit to run itself – let alone the state.
Leader John Pesutto last week lost a highly damaging and distracting defamation case brought about by intemperate remarks he made about one of his own MPs. Refusing to heed calls (by his own people) to resign as leader – Pesutto prefers (at the time of writing) to sit it out and regroup.
Whether he survives or he doesn’t – the task for the Liberal Party is, counter-intuitively, immense. Given the scale of the Labor deception of taxpayers the Liberals ought to be striding towards government blindfolded.
That this is not happening has left many wondering if they have a future in a state that was once a good place to live, work, be educated and even get sick.
It is none of these things now thanks to the crushing, suffocating effect of ten years of socialist intervention in every aspect of our lives.
No one living here during the harshest Covid shutdowns in the world will forget the arrogant, cocksure, irksome daily media briefings by Andrews and his hapless sidekick Brett Sutton.
Equally, no one will forget the 850+ people who lost their lives under Labor’s Covid regime – which is reason enough to turf Labor out – among the myriad of other valid reasons.
Remember, all 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 40 seats in the Legislative Council will be up for election when voting day finally arrives. Your vote will count.
Fixed terms for state governments are fine if the government is competent, solvent and even marginally respected. They are not fine if the government is decaying from the inside out.
Not a single Cabinet member is worthy of their pre-nominal ‘The Honourable’. What’s even remotely honourable about trashing a once great Australian state?
