In a pitch that will drive the Coalition's election campaign, JoshFrydenberg will splash tax cuts and pledge billions of dollars in infrastructure funding, which will mean good things for Victorians. What are you hoping for in the budget?
It’s good to be a battleground area, after several campaigns spent watching the contest from afar, as prime ministers and opposition leaders headed to Queensland in order to shore up election victories.
By 2018, the centrepiece of the federal budget’s $7.8 billion package for Victoria was a shiny $5 billion contribution to the Melbourne Airport rail link, which looks like it really will be built – 50 years after the possibility was first floated. Recent infrastructure announcements from both the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader would suggest that today’s budget also holds good news for Victorians.
But the federal Coalition knows it can hold Victorian seats, although it will require highly localised campaigning seat by seat, and even street by street.in the city’s outer suburbs, effectively neutralising a similar pledge from federal Labor and reinforcing a state government plan to finally convert what were once country back roads into the major freeway feeder roads the first-mortgage commuter belt urgently needs.
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