@logco; the moment opportunistic businesses stuck their snouts...

@logco; the moment opportunistic businesses stuck their snouts in the trough and tried to engorge themselves via price-gouging the Comm Games were dead in the water. Andrews pulled the plug but still delivered what was promised to regional centres.

Your comment about states' credit ratings begs questions of how the Federal Coalition starved Victoria of funding throughout its nine years in office - it was Australia's government for NSW ... even including prioritising NSW for first access to Pfizer jabs and refusing to provide Victoria's fair share of core infrastructure funds because Andrews would not build the Victorian Coalition's last minute, brain farted, discredited, ill-conceived and counter-productive Melbourne Cemetery Tunnel aimed at further inflating CBD property prices and pumping up windfalls accruing to property speculators.