Thursday, 5 February 2026

 Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (10:00): There is a headline in today’s Australian that says ‘Labor donors land $421m in “rotten” Victorian government contracts’, and it goes to the core of how this government operates. It actually demonstrates the favours they have done for Labor mates.

David Davis interjected.

Georgie CROZIER: It is corrupt, Mr Davis, and there is a question around the integrity of the procurement process. I think that is a very valid question to ask when taxpayers money is being continually wasted, when services cannot be delivered. We saw what happened on Christmas Eve, when the Greater Western Water report was released. The government cannot even get the basics right for providing services. It is so financially reckless. It is gross mismanagement. But it is basic services like this that are missing out, and I could go on about other services that are missing out too. And with the government’s decision to abolish VicHealth, which provides a preventative health mechanism in cancer screening and in preventing obesity and chronic disease like diabetes and the rising mental health cases that we have got right around the state that are causing so much distress to individuals and their families and communities, this government have got their priorities all wrong. But when they favour their mates over the Victorian taxpayer, you know it is really rotten.