A small business owner, a patient, a family, a commuter, the owner of a holiday house and an international student have their say on the Andrews government’s ninth state budget.
Premier Daniel Andrews has been telling Victorians for months to prepare for a tough budget.The second property owner
The 69-year-old says “it would be silly” to expect things would go on as normal after the pandemic without a change to how people contribute to tax.“Is it reasonable for one of the things to focus on people who have some capacity to pay? And is it likely to be the case if someone has a second, third or fourth home? I don’t think it’s an unreasonable cohort to seek from,” he says.He says if the change resulted in additional charges in the thousands it would hurt, but “that’s the way it is”.
“We, as small business people, are expected to take the brunt of that,” he says. “I can’t put my coffee up $1.50.” On Tuesday, he said the budget was a failure, particularly given 40,000 fewer patients were expected to receive elective surgery this year than originally forecast. Abdullah Altintop and Zeyneb Gokler are raising two kids in Melbourne’s outer north. The Wollert couple took advantage of the government’slast year and their four-year-old daughter, Safiye, now attends for free two days a week. But, they say it’s not enough to help Zeyneb return to work as a midwife at the Northern Hospital.
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