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Maybe Mr Baillieu believes doing an “awul lot” includes doubling state debt withnothing to show or it, cutting unding or crucial services such as education and health,

or interering in and undermining police command.

But how has any o this improved the lives o Victorians?

Ater 12 months, the Baillieu Government has done nothing to strengthen basic services

and acilities or the state.

Mr Baillieu, how do you explain ailing to deliver a jobs plan?

Mr Baillieu, how do you explain ailing to deliver even one extra hospital bed?

Mr Baillieu, how do you explain ailing to deliver an education plan and slashing almost

$500 million rom education?

Mr Baillieu, how do you explain why your PSO plan is in shambles?

Mr Baillieu, how do you explain why almost $500 million has been ripped rom the

health budget?

The problem is when Mr Baillieu is conronted with any criticism, his rst reaction is to

lay blame. It is always someone else’s ault.

Or else he hides away, reusing to answer even the simplest question.

This is not leadership, this is weakness.

Victorians deserve answers rom their Premier.

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Explain this, Mr BailliEu

As the Government prepares to mark its rst year in power, thePremier wants Victorians to believe he has done an “awul lot”since coming to oce.



• Why did you rip $481 million from the education budget?

• Why did you target 20,000 Victorian students by axing $50 million from the VCAL

program?

• Why did you abandon your promise to make Victorian teachers the highest paid in

Australia?

• Why are you forcing up apprentice fees by an extra $200 per year?

• Why are you refusing to nd $2 million to support Take A Break occasional child

care, orcing some centres to close or reduce services and leaving parents without

access to occasional care?

• Why did you slash the school capital budget from $381 million to $208 million?

• Why did you strip $300 from the household budgets of 100,000 families by axing

their eligibility or the School Start Bonus?• Why have you dumped the plan to rebuild, extend or modernise every Victorian

school by 2016-17?

• Why have you walked away from the promises you made to 36 schools to rebuild or

upgrade them?

• Why have you abolished dedicated funding to build new children’s centres?

• Why have you scrapped free internet funding for kindergartens?

EducationIn 12 months, Mr Baillieu has done nothing to support Victorianssgetting access to the best education. He has gutted the educationbudget, halved capital works and slashed unding or the VictorianCertifcate o Applied Learning.

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• Where are the extra doctors in Victorian hospitals?

• Where are the extra nurses in Victorian hospitals?

• Why is there not one extra bed in any Victorian hospital under your government?

• Why can you not tell Victorians how many elective surgeries will be performed in the

hospital system this year?

• Why do you want to cut nurse-to-patient ratios?

• Why did you consider it a reasonable option to lock nurses out of hospitals and

use a strike breaking workorce to try to halt their industrial action to protect working

conditions?

• When will you tell thousands of families in Melbourne’s south-east what happened to your

promise to build the Monash Children’s Hospital?

• What has happened to your promise for a new Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital?• When will you visit Ballarat and explain to the thousands of local families why you have

not funded the Ballarat Helipad?

• Why are you now only planning a gloried superclinic for families in Geelong, when you

promised them a ully-unded second hospital?

• Why have you only delivered a fraction of the funding for promised hospital upgrades at

Box Hill Hospital and Bendigo Hospital?

• Why is there no funding at all for your promised upgrades at Castlemaine Hospital and

Seymour Hospital?

hEalthIn 12 months, the Baillieu Government has done nothing tomake sure Victorians receive the treatment and care theyneed in our health system. Almost $500 million has been cutrom the health budget.

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• Why don’t you have a jobs plan?

• Why have you done nothing to attract new investment to Victoria?

• Why have you refused to rule out abolishing the Victorian Industry Participation Policy

(VIPP), which has contributed to over 27,200 new manuacturing jobs in Victoria between

2001 and 2010?

• What have you got to show for doubling Victoria’s debt?• What have you done to improve the rights of Victorian workers?

• Why did you advocate against a rise in the minimum wage for Victoria’s lowest paid

workers?

• Why are you refusing to offer public sector workers wage rises that keep up with

infation?

• Why did you cut the completion bonus for apprentices which supports 14,000 young

apprentices to complete their training and become ully qualied tradespeople?

• Why do you refuse to match the Federal Government’s promise to fund pay equity for

workers in the Victorian social and community services sector?

• Why did you take away penalty rates from thousands of Victorians who worked on Easter

Sunday?

• How will you explain cutting funding to JobWatch and leaving thousands of Victorian

workers without any support or assistance to understand and enorce their workplace

rights?

• How will you explain to young Victorian shop and retail workers why you cut the length of

their minimum shifts from 3 hours to 1.5 hours?

JoBs and EconoMy In almost 12 months, the Baillieu Government has done nothingto protect and grow the economy, and create jobs or Victorians.In one month alone Victoria lost 20,700 jobs and since Marchthere’ve been more than 1,300 manufacturing jobs lost inVictoria.

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• Why do you stand by your Police Minister when a damning report revealed gross

misconduct and undermining of the former Chief Commissioner Simon Overland came

rom within in his own private Ministerial oce?

• How do you continue to believe your Police Minister had no idea this campaign was

being waged rom within his own oce?

• Why do you accept your Police Minister’s explanation that everyone but himself was toblame for the campaign to bring down the Chief Commissioner?

• Why do you accept your Police Minister’s protests of ignorance when every Victorian

knows this very ignorance renders him grossly incompetent?

• Why have you refused to fund the life-saving Road Safety Experience Centre?

• Why has your agship policy of armed Protective Service Ofcers on every train station

between 6.00pm and last train descended into a complete shambles, with almost no

interest rom applicants?

• Why did you say that PSOs will be trained to the same high standards as Victoria Police

members when they will be armed, patrol stations alone, whilst using a broad range o

powers with little or no supervision and police assistance?

• Why did you originally promise that the rst deployment of PSOs would be to stations

with high crime when it will actually be to inner city stations which are already staed,

and against the fow o evening commuters?

coMMunity saEty The Baillieu Government promised tough action on communitysaety, but has bungled the handling o many o its owninitiatives and was caught out undermining the independentOfce of the Chief Commissioner.



coMMunity saEty • Why did you say your PSO policy will cost $180 million when it turns out it will cost

closer to $270 million?

• Why did your Crime Prevention Minister admit that we may not see a reduction in crime

in Victoria or 20 years?

• Why have you failed to fund a comprehensive family violence strategy?

• Why did you promise to provide street by street crime data to Neighbourhood Watch and

then back-fip and only provide postcode by postcode?



• Why did your government approve a new timetable that sends nearly two out of every

three new services the wrong way during peak hour?

• Why are there no new services for commuters travelling into the city during the morning

peak on the Frankston, Cranbourne, Pakenham, Craigieburn, Sydenham, Alamein,

Williamstown, Belgrave, Lilydale, Epping and Hurstbridge lines?

• Why have you cut funding for Disability Discrimination Act compliance by 75%?

• Why did you break your election commitment to provide 10 new trams despite expected

patronage growth of 8 million passenger trips this year?

• Why did you scrap the Premium Stations upgrade program despite the fact that your

Transport Minister Terry Mulder promised the Public Transport Users Association that he

would support the program?

• Why have you abandoned regional commuters by failing to purchase any additional

V-Line Carriages despite expected patronage growth of over 1 million commuter trips this

year?

• Why did you break your promise to establish a Public Transport Development Authority

that was truly independent o government and instead deliver a toothless tiger completely

beholden to your incompetent Transport Minister?

• Why are you slugging commuters with fare increases when you aren’t delivering on

previous plans to improve the public transport network?

puBlic transportThe Baillieu Government promised to “x the problems” inpublic transport. However there are numerous examplesacross the public transport system where commuters have beenpunished and let down during the past 12 months.

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puBlic transport• Why have you funded a multi-million dollar grade separation at the New Street, Brighton level

crossing in Deputy Liberal Leader Louise Asher’s electorate despite it being ranked number

223 in terms of urgency for an upgrade?

• Why have you funded the Dalvui Lane level crossing in Transport Minister Terry Mulder’s

electorate despite it being ranked number 394 in terms of urgency for an upgrade?

• Why do your priorities for upgrading level crossings differ so starkly from the Department ofTransport’s independent list as outlined below?

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New Street, Brighton 223 Brighton (Liberal) Yes

Dalvui Lane, Terang 394 Polwarth (Liberal) Yes

Mitcham Road, Mitcham 2 Mitcham (Liberal) Planning

Rooks Road, Nunawading 124 Mitcham (Liberal) Planning

Springvale Road, Springvale 1 Mulgrave (Labor) Planning

Mountain Highway, Bayswater 87 Bayswater (Liberal) Planning

Scoresby Road, Bayswater 48 Bayswater (Liberal) Planning

North Road, Ormond 15 Cauleld (Liberal) Planning

Blackburn Road, Blackburn 17 Mitcham (Liberal) Planning

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leve c rk Eee eSpringvale Road, Springvale 1 Mulgrave (Labor) Planning

Mitcham Road, Mitcham 2 Mitcham (Liberal) Planning

Main Road, St Albans 3 Kororoit (Labor) No

Furlong Road, St Albans 4 Kororoit (Labor) No

Bell Street, Coburg 5 Brunswick (Labor) No

Werribee Street, Werribee 6 Tarneit (Labor) No

Clayton Road, Clayton 7 Clayton (Labor) No

Macaulay Road, Kensington 8 Melbourne (Labor) NoBell Street, Preston 9 Preston (Labor) No

Glenroy Road, Glenroy 10 Pascoe Vale (Labor) No



• Where is your plan for a direct route from Melbourne’s freeway network to the Port of

Melbourne?

• Why did you not tell Victorians before the last election about your plan to roll out ‘monster

trucks’ throughout Melbourne suburbs?

• How do you justify to local communities that these trucks will roar through their suburbs

day and night?

roadsThe Baillieu Government has done nothing to ease congestionon the state’s roads and its inaction means more Victorians willbe stuck in trac and the state’s reight network will grind to ahalt.

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rEgional Victoria Je Kennett inamously reerred to regional Victoria as the“toenails o the state”. The Baillieu Government has done very little to show it thinks any dierently.

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•Why do you have no regional jobs plan despite job losses in Geelong, Ballarat, the

Goulburn Valley, Bendigo and the Latrobe Valley?

•Why did you strip Regional Development Victoria of its dedicated job creating role for

regional Victoria?

•Why does your much touted $1 billion Regional Growth Fund only have $500 million in it?

•Why did you abolish the Regional Infrastructure Development Fund and replace it with a

und that will also be available to parts o metropolitan Melbourne?

•Why did you abolish the role of a dedicated Minister for regional jobs?

•Why did you cease funding to FoodBank Victoria’s Rural Outreach workers, who support

rural amilies in tough times to access basic ood provisions?

•Why did you refuse to fund the award-winning Bsafe program protecting hundreds of

amilies in Victoria’s north rom domestic violence?



EMErgEncy sErVicEs andBushirE prEVEntionIn 12 months, the Baillieu Government has done virtually nothing toensure Victoria is bushfre ready. It has delayed Fire Action Week,slashed Victoria’s frefghting airorce and remains silent on itscommitment to implement all 67 recommendations o the BushfresRoyal Commission.

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• Why have you done nothing to ensure Victoria is ready for the upcoming

bushre season?

• Why did you knock back requests from re agencies for three air-crane re ghters

and instead only und two?

• What happened to your promise to implement all 67 Bushre Royal Commissionrecommendations?

• Why did you release new Bushre Prone Area maps that exclude many high risk

communities?

• Why did you fail to meet the promised 30 September deadline for making

important re saety changes to the Victorian Planning Provisions?

• Why did you postpone Victoria’s annual Fire Action Week by over a month,

meaning that important re preparation messages being broadcast to communitiesand landowners were delayed?

• Why have you refused to release the nal report of the Power Line Bushre Safety

Task Force?

• Why have you only funded 60 CFA stations to be upgraded or rebuilt instead of

the 250 the CFA need?



accountaBility ingoVErnMEntOn the day he was sworn in as Premier, Mr Baillieu said:“accountability and transparency will be the principles that underpin our government”. However in 12 months all Mr Baillieuhas done is dodge questions on important issues, hide whenthe going gets tough, and block any attempts to get inormation

through Freedom o Inormation.

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•Why did the recent OPI report ‘Crossing the Line’ describe shocking accounts of internal

government politics driven by sel-interest, nasty vendettas and hidden agendas, when you

promised Victorians integrity in government?

•Why have you hired the former Liberal Party State Director and your campaign director Tony Nutt

as the Director General of the Victorian Cabinet Ofce?

•Why have you refused to support Labor in reforming Question Time to remove ‘Dorothy Dixer’

questions, which you promised during the 2010 election leaders’ debate?

•Why have you reduced the time available for non-government parties to raise matters in the

Legislative Council?

•Why won’t you allow committees in the Legislative Council to investigate Ministers rather thanorcing them to investigate what Ministers give them?

•Why is there no government advertising review panel despite legislation being drawn up and

ready to go?

•Why have you hired Liberal Party members in your private ofce to oversee Freedom of

Inormation responses instead o the independent public service?

•What happened to your promise to have your anti-corruption commission up and running by July

1, 2011?

•Why do you and your Ministers continually refuse to answer questions asked of them?



accountaBility ingoVErnMEnt

•Why have you failed to answer thousands of Questions on Notice?

•Where is your promised Freedom of Information Commissioner?

•Why have you not provided a fundraising code of conduct that is any different to what is in

existing legislation?

•Why did your Minister for Gaming introduce laws that would ne anyone who had a go

at him?

•Why have you appointed so many Liberal and National Party mates and family members to

boards across Victoria including:

• Alan Stockdale - Former Liberal MP

• Craig Coltman - Liberal Party Candidate

• Graeme Stoney - Former Liberal MP and brother-in-law to Ted Baillieu

• Helen Shardey - Former Liberal MP

• John Vogels - Former Liberal MP

• Mark Birrell - Former Liberal MP

• Michael Langdon - Liberal Party Candidate

• Peter Clarke - Former Vice-President of the Liberal Party

• Petro Georgiou - Former Liberal MP

• Robert Knowles - Former Liberal MP

• Wendy Smith - Former Liberal MP



• Why did you walk away from 40 years of bipartisan support for Green Wedge zoning?

• Why have you put in jeopardy Victoria’s windfarm industry?

• Why do you refuse to consult with the community over important decisions?

• Why are you reviewing Melbourne’s Green Wedges in a manner unprecedented in

character and scope?

• Why have you introduced ‘work-in-kind” agreements between developers and your

government, which will be made in secret between the Planning Minister and the

developer – without consulting the local council, without reerence to the Growth Areas

Authority and without reerence to precinct structure plans?

• Why is your government considering removing land from the Green Wedges for

development or increasing the amount of development that can occur on Green Wedge

land?

• Where is your plan to ensure families in Melbourne’s outer suburbs don’t face longercommutes to work and stressed local services under your push to accommodate an extra

one million residents?

• Why did your government in its recently released Growth Corridor Plan push for housing

developments without committing the unding or inrastructure and services to support

them?

planningThe Baillieu Government has done nothing to honour itscommitment to have a air, consistent and transparent planningsystem.

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airnEssM Be, w ve e mke V ee 2011?

•Why did you rush through the Parliament legislation to wind back changes made to the

Equal Opportunity Act in 2010, reversing decades of gains in legislative protections?

•Why did you abandon support for the ‘Forgotten Australians’ – the people who were

victims o abuse in state and church run institutions – by stopping programs that assisted this

group with their medical needs and education programs?

•Why did you back down from your pre-election commitment to fully fund the outcome of the

Victorian social and community services sector workers pay equity case?



cost o liVingIn 12 months the Baillieu Government has done nothing to easethe cost o living or Victorians. Instead amilies are payingmore or everyday bills than ever beore.

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•Despite your promise to “keep supermarket prices down” why do the prices of everyday

groceries, including those listed below, cost more in 2011 than when you came to oce?

•A 500g packet of sliced cheese cost 17.6 per cent more in June than in

December.

•An 875g box of laundry detergent was up 18.1 per cent

•A 420g can of pet food increased 16.9 per cent in the six months to June.

•A 1kg bag of tomatoes are also up 26.8 per cent.

•Why did you target low income Victorians by axing the Home Wise program which

provided no-cost assistance to replace essential aulty appliances such as hot water

services, wall heaters, rerigerators, washing machines, generators, wall heaters, leaking

water pipes, upright stoves, water tanks, toilets and leaking gas pipes?



EnVironMEntMr Baillieu ailed to take an environment policy to the electionand in just 12 months the reason or this is clear.

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• Why did you re-introduce cattle into the National Heritage-listed Alpine National Park

under the guise o “uel reduction service providers”?

• Why do you now describe the legislated cut in greenhouse gas emissions of 20 per cent by

2020 as merely ‘’aspirational’’ when you voted for it?

• Why are you breaking your promise to produce ve per cent of the state’s energy from

solar sources?

• Why did you introduce job killing anti-wind farm laws, which create a dense maze of wind

arm “buers” and “bans” that have shut down Victoria or uture wind arm projects?

• Why are you doing nothing when wind farm companies are looking at closing up shop

and abandoning new projects?

• Why did you abolish the premium solar feed-in tariff scheme, killing about 1800 jobs in the

solar industry?

• Why did you fail to introduce a gross feed-in tariff scheme for renewable energy?



Authorised N Carroll, 360 King St West Melbourne VIC 3003

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