Thursday, 30 October 2025

 Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (10:04): Victorians are paying almost $20 million a day in interest repayments on the Allan Labor government’s debt. That debt is not only growing but spiralling out of control, and forecast interest repayments in 2029, in just a few years time, will be $29 million per day, or $1.2 million an hour. That is a huge amount of money that Victorian households, families and businesses will have to pay. Not the government – it is not their money. It is the taxpayers money. At the same time, you would not think this, because the government is just throwing money around with gay abandon, wasting and mismanaging so many issues. As a result, it is initiatives that the government can assist with that are not getting any attention – initiatives such as putting the meningococcal vaccine on the immunisation list to protect young Victorians like Levi, who at the age of 16 died of meningococcal disease. Anyone who heard his mother’s heartbreaking interview with the ABC’s Raf Epstein last week could only be moved by her pleas. I have raised this issue on a number of occasions in this place to ask the government to look at providing meningococcal B to young Victorians, but the response is always just a benign one. As we have all seen in recent days with their support of community health services, this Labor government continues to claim they care but are shutting down the services that are there to support and care for the most vulnerable of Victorians. The government is looking for any cost savings they can because they have recklessly and continually mismanaged Victoria’s – (Time expired)