Victorian business leaders have abandoned the usual diplomatic silence on election outcomes, declaring the state is broken and backing a change of government. Intrapac chief executive Max Shifman said the relationship was deliberately burned long before this week, and that Labor’s credibility is missing as the same ministers who made the problems now announce the fixes.
As I told the Australian Financial Review: “Labor’s credibility is missing, especially when the same people making the carefully scripted announcements were there throughout and were made well aware of the coming problems for years.”
I also said: “It’s galling to be told how well we’ve performed without any acknowledgement of the damage they’ve caused.”
Australian Financial Review, 15 October 2026 — Read the full article