Federal budget
David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (14:19): The second point I want to make today is around the federal budget and its provision for cultural and arts spending. When you read this budget it is shockingly focused on other states and territories in Australia. There is almost nothing in it for Victoria. Yes, there are some general programs, but the fact is that most of the capital spending, most of the new and available recurrent spending that is coming forward – and it is modest, I might add, in certain areas – is focused on other states and territories. Victoria has missed out. We have got 26 per cent of the population. We pay about a quarter of the taxes. Our arts and creative industries, our cultural industries, deserve their fair share, and under the Albanese government they are not getting it.