Labor pledges $1.17bn for surgery, Liberals plan boot camp
Ben Carroll pledged $1.17bn for 100,000 extra elective surgeries while Jess Wilson announced a $60m boot camp program for young offenders.
Reported by The Guardian
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Voters will choose between two sharply different visions for healthcare and youth justice spending in Victoria's election later this month.
In Australia. Victorian election results will reshape state health services and criminal justice policy, affecting public hospital waiting times and youth offender management across the state.
Key facts
- $1.17 billion
- Labor surgery pledge
- $60 million
- Liberal boot camp program
- 18 to 20 percent primary vote
- Labor polling
- 16 extra seats to form government
- Coalition seats needed
- Ben Carroll launched Labor's Victorian election campaign with a healthcare-focused pitch, pledging $1.17bn to perform extra elective surgeries in public hospitals and halve waiting lists.
- Across town, Jess Wilson unveiled the Liberal campaign, promising to send offenders aged 14 to 17 to a boot camp instead of other sentences.
- Carroll, facing polls showing Labor at 18-20% support, told supporters to make history by winning a fourth consecutive term.
- Labor has never achieved this in Victoria.
- Wilson said the Coalition faces a mountain to climb, needing 16 extra seats to form government.
- Both leaders said their policies reflected their parties' different values on public services and law and order.
