The Allan government offered to provide bailout guarantees for Zoos Victoria,12 months before the organisation announced plans to axe an estimated 70 roles.
A month after Melbourne sacked its chief executive,its plan to move to Caulfield appears to be back on track,with a key state government minister intervening in the negotiations.
After two months,public transport is going to cost us money again. But some are making the case to make it free forever.
The investigation will focus on whether the secretive process was good value for taxpayers and a competitive process.
Opposition Leader Jess Wilson used her budget reply speech to accuse the government of a “desperate and deluded scare campaign”,amid doubts over how she would reach her 2032 target.
The state government quietly discontinued the investment fund – targeted at priority sectors including the circular economy – in last week’s budget.
This week’s Victorian budget revealed a debt bill heading rapidly towards $200 billion. It was a far cry from the fiscal strategy the government once boasted about.
In her first substantive reply to this week’s state budget,Opposition Leader Jess Wilson has vowed to shrink Victoria’s swollen bureaucracy.
Treasurer Jaclyn Symes insists the budget and the assumptions underpinning it are conservative,despite Treasury’s recent history of overly optimistic forecasts.
IBAC chief Alison Byrne and Ombudsman Marlo Baragwanath say their agencies are not getting enough money from the government to balance their books – or do their jobs.