The Victorian Premier has gone on the defensive over Labor's walk-out of state parliament while in opposition after slamming the Coalition for doing the exact same thing during Question Time on Thursday.
Jacinta Allan has been forced to defend Labor's walk-out of Question Time while in opposition after launching into a blistering attack on the Coalition for doing the same thing on Thursday. The Victorian Premier has gone on the defensive over Labor's walk-out of state parliament while in opposition after slamming the Coalition for doing the exact same thing during Question Time on Thursday.
Ms Allan sought to justify the party's decision by claiming Labor needed to take a stand against service cuts by the then Coalition government. "But what we were standing up for at that time was for the broader issues in the Victorian community, particularly around… the war that was going on with paramedics, the cuts that were going on in schools and hospitals by the former Napthine-Baillieu Liberal government.
Coalition MPs staged a walk-out during Question Time in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday. Picture: NewsWire/ David Crosling "I think what we saw yesterday, that was just a poor performance… not about policies and ideas, not about focusing on what's important for the Victorian community."about the CFMEU's role on government infrastructure projects amid massive cost blowouts and damning allegations of criminal behaviour being levelled against the union.
"We were getting frustrated during the week. I know it was a big call but we made it for a reason," he told ABC Radio Melbourne's Raf Epstein.
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