The debased socialist Allan government in Victoria has effectively said to employers – leave the state and don’t bother coming back.

Many employers have already departed and more will follow suit when the entirely regressive, promised ‘work from home’ legislation goes before the Parliament in advance of the November 2026 election.

In a grotesque and opportunistic grab for a headline, Labor Leader Jacinta Allan used a speech to the ALP State Conference at the weekend to lock-in the right to ‘work from home’ for two days per week for all workers.

Jacinta claims to be ‘batting’ for struggling Victorian families in pressing ahead with the plan. As with Labor nationally, Allan is incapable of acknowledging families are struggling precisely because of the ALP’s policies.

On the eve of Prime Minister Albanese’s Productivity Roundtable, ostensibly designed to provide a jump-start to national productivity, Victorian Labor announces this cretinous gem.

Should the legislation become law, it’s a sad truth there will be a stampede of employers heading interstate, offshore, or out of business.

No further proof is needed that Labor believes that it is the State that is the source of production and economic growth.

The Allan government rejects entirely the notion that economic growth and momentum come from the private sector – where private investment is risked in the name of growth and prosperity. This simple truth is a foreign concept to Victorian Labor. It was under Daniel Andrews and remains under Jacinta Allan.

The indebtedness of the State is now so vast and the collapse of the economy so complete – Labor only has words for ‘families’ and the so-called economically dispossessed.

Allan and her legion of spin operatives do what all hopeless governments do at such times – they talk about the future and how much better it will be.

When the present is so catastrophic – Labor’s strategists have their MPs shift voter focus to the future.

It’s even easier for Jacinta and her hapless Ministers as there is still no effective Opposition in the State.

These facts speak for themselves.

Victorian net debt is projected to reach approximately $190 billion by mid-2028 – according to the 2024-25 Budget Update.

This represents a dramatic increase from the $133.2 billion in June 2024 and an average annual growth rate of almost 9 per cent in net debt. The place is awash with debt and is led by a government that seems not the least concerned about it.

As a result of having run persistently higher cash deficits over the past decade than any other state or territory, Victoria has run up the highest level of general government sector net debt of any state or territory, relative to the size of its economy.

Taxation on those Victorians still attempting to earn a living in the state has hit all-time highs. Look no further than the obscene level of land tax now levied – and the iniquitous emergency services levy now charged against property owners in rural and regional areas. Protests continue over the levy.

The moral degradation of Labor’s reign lies in its innate deception.

Labor claims to want to ease of the cost of living for all Victorians, but taxes the productive ones to pay for the vast numbers of unproductive ones.

While some people working from home may be productive – they should spare a thought for all the small to medium businesses and services that used to rely on people attending their workplace and adding value to the economy each day. Many no longer exist since Covid.

The government lies through its teeth and offers the young and the elderly ‘free’ public transport as a distraction to the fact the state is utterly broke.

The ‘work from home’ proposal is further proof that Jacinta Allan will duck, weave and obfuscate her way to next year’s election without tackling the pain and suffering of millions of Victorians.

Legislating for two days of ‘work from home’ is a crude intrusion into the employer-employer relationship and strikes at the heart of efforts to breathe life into Australia’s moribund productivity which every sensible person regards as critical.

Such legislation is unnecessary, destructive and an act of economic idiocy.

Thanks Jacinta.