Thursday, 26 May 2022

Government performance

Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (10:33): Victoria is not Australia’s biggest state, but you would not think it when you listen to our Premier. It is all about ‘big’—big hopes, big dreams, big budgets, big futures. But I want to talk about another big, the bigger picture. It is all about the wrong type of big—not big budgets but big blowouts. The Big Build is the big bill, the big broke, the big bust. We still do not have the big tunnel, but we have got the big potholes. The Big Battery became the big burn up. Patients all through our hospitals now face the big wait. And there is another big wait—the wait for a big sorry. Some hope, but instead we have got the big spin, big smoke, big mirrors, big lies and a big bloody cover-up. I am not even going to talk about the big brown envelopes. There is only one certainty here, only one thing is sure: bigger is not better in Victoria. The big ego has become the big problem, and we have got a big decision to make in November.