@Cowboyinvestor; your attempt to change the historical record is noted:
. After extricating Australia from the worst global financial crisis in eighty years, Labor left $230 Billion in $Debt after inheriting the structural debt Howard embedded in the Budget [ie. delivery of welfare to the wealthy as well as superannuation for people who don't need superannuation].
. The Coalition has since already quadrupled that $230 Billion of $Debt but by $Feeding $Greed instead of investing in a more productive future.
. Victorians may have been locked up longer than in other states but many sectors such as construction still operated. Overwhelmingly Victorians worked from home - except front-line workers - health professionals, police, ambos, supermarket workers, ...
. Victoria's economy slowed a little but it did not stop and remained Australia's real engine room.