Death and Blackmail

The new Coalition (our conservatives, that is) state government swings into action in Victoria...

Item 1
Singer Olivia Newton-John - a cancer survivor - has spent 7 years working on the development of a holistic cancer centre. Six out of eight storeys of the building have already been completed, and the plan is that 2000 Victorians would get oncology and radiotherapy treatment from early 2013.
But new 'Health' minister David Davis has said finding the $45 million needed to finish it would be a "significant challenge" and would not elaborate. Except to blame the previous government, of course.

I bet you could find $45 million for political advertising, party junkets, or getting Tiger Woods to play golf here..
Jerks.

moving on...

Item 2.
"The Baillieu government has been trying to blackmail the University of Melbourne into overseeing its controversial alpine grazing trial by threatening to withdraw millions of dollars in research funding... Ethicist Leslie Cannold said it was wrong for the government to use its fiscal power as a threat. ‘‘You’ve essentially got an academic institution that is being blackmailed,’’ she said."

Now let me guess, you're not planning to withdraw the millions and put them into the cancer centre instead are you?
No? I didn't think so...

all in a days light reading in the local paper...