Like me, Inside Story’s Tim Colebatch is an overall fan of the Andrews Government’s Victorian State Budget, which provides massive stimulus at exactly the right time:
The main game of the Andrews government’s 2020–21 budget is to deliver stimulus, and it does so in spades. It plans to spend almost $110 billion this year providing services and investing in assets — roughly $23 billion more than it spent a year earlier.
Let that soak in. This year, Victorian government spending will grow by more than 25 per cent. The additional spending will amount to close to $3500 for every man, woman and child in the state. That’s roughly $70 per person, per week, in new spending…
