Goin' West?

This is Victoria-centric ... but, I'm guessing the same kind of shenanigans go on in all Australian political jurisdictions. Our state budget is about to be tabled in the wake of the usual strategic leaks trumpeting 'good news' ... despite the much vaunted idea of budget confidentiality until the tome actually hits the table. Ho hum!
In any event, there are already claims of fraudulent fiddling of numbers like quoted allocations of large amounts for specific purposes (good tidings) ... but a lack of detail on the old catch-cry "Where is the money coming from?!" Vague answers like 'from savings' (almost certainly bad tidings), immediately sets off the bellows about mass sackings of public servants and further severe cutting of already thread-bare services. 
However, one of the salient areas of disquiet here-abouts is the appalling lack of targetted spending on transport infrastructure and, PUBLIC transport infrastructure in particular. What used to be a great urban train and tram network is now literally a shambles of a shamble. What rolling stock and time-tabling there is, prove more than adequately every day that the networks don't come within a bull's roar of meeting the needs of greater Melbourne commuters. A gross inadequacy of infrastructural development and transit integration over the past 15-20 years in the face of urban sprawl is clearly the cause. Both sides of the political spectrum stand condemned for letting it happen. Instead, these morons have backed patch-work freeway and toll-way construction and conversion ... despite evidence that in the case of arterial roads ...If you build it, they will come! In un-manageable peak-hour droves, they paralyse the 'system' by rendering it a veritable car-park twice daily on week-days! Yet, the current 'government' under the leadership of Dense Napthalene ... (actually Dennis Napthine, but my love of Dickens compels me to substitute a vaguely apt pseudonym for all my principal caricatured actors) ... is pursuing more and more construction of roads in preference to building viable rail mass-transit facilities as an alternative to the horror of driving to/from work every day.
Apparently, the Federal government recently granted the Victorian bunglers $50 mil. as seed funding for creation of a business plan aimed at providing a new underground link to unite eastern and western suburb sections of the existing urban rail network. Allegedly, there is no evidence of the grant being spent since it was revealed in last year's budget ... and, no reference to any rail construction plans in this year's leaked document. Sooo ... the media is asking 'where did the $50 mil. go to?!' ... a poetic reversal of the usual chant.

Hence today's cartoon.