{"id":222091,"date":"2025-05-23T15:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T05:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=222091"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T05:17:53","slug":"the-positive-news-on-the-victorian-budget-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=222091","title":{"rendered":"The positive news on the Victorian Budget 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A series of planned surpluses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surplus<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

25 $600m
26 $1.9b
27 $2.4b
28 $1.5b <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debt to GSP 25%, and 8% to 9% of the state’s total expenditure is for interest payments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheap debt! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Low, manageable, and productive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoria leads the way in infrastructure investment, 20% of expenditure vs other states 16% 200 major infrastructure projects, including: SRL Metro Tunnel North East Link Level Crossings Productive debt, building the state’s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus Victoria has received $31b less than it should have received in GST payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/abc.net.au\/news\/2025-05-20\/victoria-budget-charts-debt-surplus-government\/105314180<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plus Victoria has received $31b less than it should have received in GST payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":198378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[8634,993,8,16773],"class_list":["post-222091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-victorian-budget-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222092,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222091\/revisions\/222092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}