Having morphed its deadly 2020 Covid response ‘strategy’ into a popularity triumph with voters the Andrews Victorian government has delivered generational debt in its state budget — the scale of which is truly grotesque.

The government, via its comical Treasurer, Tim Pallas, trained a firehose of cash in the direction of Labor’s core constituencies; inner-city left elites, public sector employees, green zealots, gender and inclusion warriors, the public housing lobby, the unemployed and young.