00:01The coalition is widely expected to win in this November state election and recent polling
00:08is showing they should be able to form a majority in their own right meaning they won't need
00:12to form an alliance with the coalition to get legislation passed through the lower house.
00:17What we've heard from the Victorian Labor Premier Ben Carroll is use that phrase that you just used
00:24saying Labor is the underdog and to catch up with such to a strong lead from the coalition he was
00:31saying that this is something that has never been done before. Now over the past four months Ben
00:36Carroll after rolling the former premier Jacinta Allen has really tried to establish himself as a
00:40new premier taking the party on a new direction. These are the lines you hear from him repeatedly
00:46say to the media and to the public particularly the campaign is going to a back to basics type
00:53approach really focusing on some of the smaller kind of direct issues that affect voters things
01:00like health and education these type of issues that people associate with Labor but of course
01:05the premier also has to undo a lot of the damage that has been done under his under the Labor
01:11government for instance the issue of potholes has been a huge issue in recent months really dragging
01:16down support for Labor here so while vowing to fix all those problems he's been talking about taking
01:22Labor on a new direction focusing on issues like health and education painting the opposition
01:29leader Jess Wilson as someone who will prioritize who will prioritize profits over the public health
01:34sector I'm saying that she will Americanize the health system here and even with today's announcement
01:41there was a new announcement today that they would slash public hospital waiting times as well as really increase
