John Brumby

He gets to ride off into the sunset.

A guy called John Brumby takes over and he loses the 2010 election to the liberals.

Liberals are in for four years, heavily scandal ridden government.

I don't remember if you remember talking about like the distribution of pornography that was going on.

It also had the strong support of the state government.

The Minister for Innovation and Regional Development, a guy called John Brumby, was a major supporter of that.

In Australia, you saw similar things with Peter Beattie in Queensland and the Smart State Initiative, and that he was an orchestrator along with John Hay, who was the Vice-Chancellor.

But there was also the philanthropy money that came into it as well through Atlantic Philanthropies, and again, an orchestrator through Chuck Feeney.

You've got a guest on, Senator McGuire.

His brother, Frank, won the seat of Broadmeadows after John Brumby left.

That's right.

And he lived outside the electorate at the time.

The terrible Dan Andrews established Breakthrough Victoria in March 2021 to partner with private investors, superannuation funds, VC firms and the government to target early stage ideas across health, manufacturing, energy, agri-food and digital tech.

An initial director of the fund was Andrew Bassett, who had a thorough time running Seek's VC firm and former Labor Premier John Brumby has been chairman of the fund.

Balance claimed, after a few short years, Breakthrough Victoria has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on foreign-owned ventures that manufacture goods offshore or on bailouts for companies that sunk into administration and failed to deliver on its promise of 15,000 jobs.

Unless we abolish Breakthrough Victoria now, Victorians will continue to see hundreds of millions of dollars on ventures that deliver no jobs and no return.