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State opposition leader highlights soaring debt, cost blowouts and the Andrews government's response to COVID-19.

“But the state now wakes up the hangover of the one-man show. In fact, waking up to the hangover of eight years to this premier, a one-man band, a government that’s simply a one-man, public-relations exercise – that’s the extent of government in Victoria for the last eight years.” Yet more people died here than any other state, yet no one ... would even say they remembered who made the decisions that caused this unimaginable grief to so many families. “Despite hero promises, they have run down our health system, left our nurses, doctors, paramedics and health staff utterly overworked. While not lambasting the premier as a “dictator” as some of his MPs have done in the past, Guy described the Andrews government as a “one-man show”. Guy used his budget reply speech to remind Victorians of the late-night curfews, bans on playgrounds and months of home-schooling to curb the spread of the virus.