Victorians left lacking substantial cost of living relief after state budget

Three month old Nina is her parents pride and joy. With her mum on parental leave, times are tight and today’s budget won’t do much to help. The gold price seems to be moving all the time and it’s really deflating as young parents, new homeowners, all of these pressures and we’re looking at actually having to sell our place to sort of improve our financial position. While school students benefit, younger children miss out. Oh, it’s very hard. Yeah, like I have three kids and it’s been tough. Even for parents with kids at school like Gisele Nigam, the $400.00 credit won’t go far. His mortgage has risen by almost $1000 a month is helpful, but not for every child at the moment. Cost of living has gone up so mortgage payment has gone up. So when you look at an average family income, it’s not good enough as daily expenses soar. I just came out from shopping is $150.00 already. Many families were hoping for help with the cost of living. We’re trying to, you know, make ends meet and we’re having to dip into savings. And there’s no relief for renters. Robert Dutton is hoping to make use of a temporary extension to the Victorian home buyer fund. Later on happened to pay the the bank repayments. It would be very helpful. Also up rates for waste. While mental health spending is going down as someone who has tried to access care within the public sector through emergency departments at specific hospitals. It’s already really underfunded. Travellers were frustrated by yet more delays to the airport rail link. I I think it’s crazy. I mean, what other major city doesn’t have a train to the airport? A budget focused on fiscal discipline costing commuters. It takes like a long time to get from here to where we live in southeast Melbourne, and it’s like $150.00 Today’s news providing limited relief for Victorian families battling to balance their own budgets at home.