Victoria’s leadership shows how one state can be a laboratory for social reforms that influence other jurisdictions. In other words, a state government’s policymaking can transcend its own borders, writes Paul Strangio | OPINION
In a class early this year, I posed the following question to a group of students. Which election result in 2022 would have the most significant implications for them: would it be the outcome of the federal or state poll? The majority of the class nominated the federal election, yet the ensuing discussion demonstrated that events since 2020 had given the students a keen appreciation of the state government’s reach.The reach of the state government is greater as a result of the pandemic.
Victoria’s leadership of the nation in this and other fields such as passing voluntary assisted dying legislation, a measure now emulated across Australia, shows how one state can be a laboratory for social reforms that influence other jurisdictions. In other words, a state government’s policymaking can transcend its own borders.Credit:The stakes in this November’s election contest are indeed raised by the activist way in which the state has been led over the past eight years.
Matthew Guy and Daniel Andrews. November’s state poll is expected to confirm a shift away from the two major parties.
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