Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Budget 2024–25

Michael O’BRIEN (Malvern) (13:09): The Labor government’s 10th budget will be handed down on 7 May, and the people of my Malvern electorate are rightly concerned by what it will mean for them – concerned that yet again we will be hit by higher taxes and charges despite Labor promising the opposite; concerned that yet again our local schools will miss out on desperately needed funding, repeating the neglect of the last nine Labor budgets; and concerned that, with Labor having already closed our Malvern police station 16 hours a day to the public and cut hundreds of tram services from our community, even more frontline services will be cut to pay for Labor’s budget mismanagement. Next Tuesday will see the consequence of a decade of Labor waste and economic incompetence writ large. So, Victoria, brace yourself: this is going to hurt.