First off: I miss Jeff Kennet. I haven’t cared about Victorian politics very much ever since he left the scene.
That said, it seems that the Victorian government is just about where the NSW government was one term ago – getting a bit long in the tooth perhaps, but still with enough talent to justify another go. And judging from Saturday’s results, Victoria agrees with me. A swing of 4-8 seats is pretty much what everyone expected, and once again shows that oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them.
(What makes NSW so interesting at the moment is that both parties are competing very strongly to lose the election, with the Liberals trying just a little bit harder at the moment).
The claims that this was decided on ‘federal issues’ is laughable – every sign suggests that people have worked out the difference between State and Federal Labour…