Say what you like about Tim Pallas – his career achievements are, by any measure, remarkable.
From abattoir worker to Victorian Treasurer to circus performer – it’s a unique trajectory ‘owned’ solely by the comical Timothy Hugh Pallas MP.
Tim has, for more than a decade, been Treasurer of Victoria while doubling as a circus performer.
The circus is, of course, Victoria’s Labor government formally under ringmaster Daniel Andrews and now novice whip-cracker, the struggling Jacinta Allan.
The skill set to achieve Pallas’ move to the circus was not immediately obvious – but Tim has shown us the way.
His great work in the ‘sludge pit’ of Labor politics ought to qualify him for the next Olympics.
More than any other State Minister, Pallas gives the distinct impression he couldn’t give a toss how his Party’s policies are impacting Victorians. Pallas smugly smiles while we cry.
For Victorian Labor, voters exist merely to pay tax and to keep paying tax to feed the government’s obscene unfunded infrastructure jamboree.
The Victorian government came in for specific remark last week by the Governor of Reserve Bank who believes the profligacy of State spending is placing serious inflationary pressure on the national economy.
The Governor said clearly this was of greater concern than Federal Government spending impacts. The obscenity of Victoria’s mainlining on debt is evident from the numbers.
Australia’s state and territories are on track to achieve $600 billion in debt by 2025 as they attempt to win votes through an array of infrastructure projects from roads to rail while they ought to be plugging gaping holes in health, education and public safety.
Recent data from ratings agency S&P Global reveals that Victoria will soon account for just under a third of that figure with current debt of $157 billion ballooning to almost $190 billion by 2028. State debt is growing at 6.3 per cent per year.
Premier Allan gives every impression of being utterly clueless in her role as head of government. Public health delivery, education, welfare, aged care, mental well-being, youth crime, and public safety are all significantly degraded thanks to Labor’s atrocious public administration over 10 years.
Pallas has been Treasurer for all of them.
It’s said that Tim was heavily influenced by his father. It was his Dad who sagely advocated to his children they should ‘give more than they get’.
He and the government fail, and fail badly, on each one of these aspirations.
His stated ‘vision’ for Victoria’s future is that residents are empowered to get the jobs, education, housing, and lifestyle they aspire to. Again it’s a fail on every front, Tim.
You have failed miserably as Treasurer and consigned Victoria to decades of indebtedness and mediocrity. You are a clownish performer and your government is a circus.
Sounding every inch a Lord Mayoral candidate, Tim Pallas wants Melbourne to be a busy, liveable, global city.
‘Victoria should be an Asian-Pacific headquarters for tech, renewables and financial services, renowned worldwide for its arts, culture, green parks and great food.’
Melbourne isn’t any of these in the wake of Covid and the long tenure of Labor on the government benches.
Yes, we have good food – thankfully a sector beyond even the reach of this shameful government to wreck.
Tim – your future in the circus that is Victorian Labor is assured – while the rest of us battle the cost of living and your obscene, repellant tax regime.