Nicole WERNER (Warrandyte) (13:26): With the polling as it is and the Premier as popular as she is, I want to offer the Allan Labor government some advice today, a few home truths – whether or not they would like to listen. Trust in government is not restored by breaking promises. The cost-of-living crisis is not solved by increasing taxes – we are up to number 67, by the way. The lives of individuals are not made better by making government bigger. A housing crisis is not solved by building fewer homes. Farming communities do not benefit by being slugged with an emergency services tax and certainly are not benefited by making it legal to forcibly enter their properties. A more productive economy is not created by quadrupling land tax bills and more than doubling payroll tax on the people who invest in Victoria. Working families are not able to build for their future when you drive up taxes. Small businesses are not helped by being taxed to death by a thousand cuts. You certainly do not build a state by tearing down businesses and the builders and entrepreneurs who create the jobs. You do not set future generations up for success by handing them $200 billion of debt. You certainly do not solve corruption by ignoring the fact that $15 billion of taxpayers money has been poured into the hands of criminals. The Liberals have a plan to clean up the corruption, to find the money, to end the crime crisis and to give Victoria a fresh start.