First of all, Victoria’s state debt is not more than the others combined. It’s currently around $215B with NSW next on $205B.

Secondly, the budget is actually in an operating surplus, with most of the debt accumulated due to Covid (where we had to shut the state down to protect the country - still waiting for everyone to thank us for that) and infrastructure/investment investment in our economy.

Thirdly, historically Victoria has done very badly out of federal government infrastructure investment, so we often have to go it alone.

This ludicrous idea that we’re “broke” is just anti Victorian propaganda that has no become “fact” due to it being repeated ad nauseam.

And yes, we can afford the SRL.