The EIU, in their assessment, certainly missed Victoria’s secret – that behind the soigné veil, she is riddled with disease. Victoria’s debt is at a record $167.6 billion (roughly the GDP of Slovakia), having grown an astounding $31.4 billion from 2023-24. The state’s debt was merely $22.3 billion when Labor came into government and delivered their first budget in 2015-16. It has also cut police funding by $50 million and reduced funding to Victoria’s courts by $30 million. Ever since the UK introduced a series of knife bans that increasingly encroached on the freedoms of law-abiding citizens from 2019, knife crime has only gotten worse.