Improve services, cut traffic: Vic Labor
Improving services and cutting suburban traffic congestion will be Labor's key themes for the Victorian election.
Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews says Labor will focus on giving Victorians the services he says the coalition government has cut.
"(We need) the best schools, the best hospitals, an ambulance service that works," Mr Andrews told reporters on Monday.
He refused to comment on Premier Denis Napthine's attacks on Labor's history of managing major projects.
"I'm not here to talk about Denis Napthine," he said.
Mr Andrews said he would continue working hard on the campaign, despite a Newspoll on Monday showing Labor had a 54-46 per cent two-party-preferred lead.
"I've never taken anything for granted," he said.
Mr Andrews said a Labor government would create jobs, with the removal of 50 level crossings around Melbourne a key part of that plan.
"We can't settle as a state for the highest unemployment rate on the mainland," he said.
He also promised to "end the war" with Victoria's paramedics, who have been fighting a pay deal with the state government, and improve hospitals.
"We have to find and reopen the beds the Liberals have closed down," he said.
