The Victorian treasurer, Tim Pallas, says “sensible and disciplined decisions” have been made in the state budget – including delaying Melbourne’s long-awaited airport-rail link and scrapping Covid-era measures such as sick pay for casual workers – in an effort to keep debt under control.
But in recognition of cost-of-living pressures, the government has also introduced some relief measures for families to soften the blow, including one-off payments for public school students and an expansion of its shared-equity home ownership scheme.
