Loading Replay Replay video Play video Play video 3. $78.4 million to expand substance abuse treatment programs Losers 1. Aboriginal affairs. $30 million of $100 million will help develop a treaty with Aboriginal Victorians 2. Arts. Funding drops to $106.6 million, from $152 million last year

At a Glance Funding to tackle family violence leads today's budget announcement. It is a major investment in a program that everyone can agree is badly needed, and implements most of the Royal Commission's recommendations. There is plenty in there – multiple new agencies, new beds, new treatment workers, new safety hubs. But while the spotlight is drawn to family violence, other areas – arts, aboriginal affairs – miss out on serious new funding. open book, education, learning concept. free copy space EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEEKEND, MARCH 25/17 ISSUE. cr: iStockphoto (supplied image, no archiving) Endorsed : Book Swapping Credit:Istockphoto Education Winners

1. $50.7 million for underperforming state schools 2. $685 million to build nine new schools and upgrade existing schools 3. Kindergarten students who need speech therapy, literacy and numeracy support Losers 1. Those who want clarity about school funding beyond 2018

2. City families who desperately want a new Docklands school At a Glance Victoria's schools will have to accommodate a staggering one million students by 2020, and this budget provides pain relief for overcrowded schools and families living in growth corridors. $685 million for capital works, with a promise to build nine new schools in areas experiencing enrolment growth, funding upgrades for 49 metropolitan schools and 59 regional and rural schools, and $75 million for new portables. The budget also locks in the so-called Gonski school funding agreement for 2018, but there is no certainty beyond next year.

Toll roads are certain to be a larger part of Sydney's transport mix. Credit:Jason South Transport Winners 1. Road users in Melbourne's north: Full funding - $673 million - for the widening of Melbourne's ring road by 2021, half of which will come from the federal government 2. Road users in Melbourne's south-east: The Mordialloc bypass, a new freeway, will connect the Mornington Freeway with the Dingley Bypass. $300 million

3. Regional rail users: Thirty-nine new V/Line rail carriages - enough for 13 new train sets - to ease the treechanger squeeze. $311 million Losers 1. Tram passengers with special needs: Upgrading tram stops to comply with disability standards has virtually stalled, with just two completed this year. 2. Cyclists: Still no cycling plan from the government. Release was due in September but has been deferred. 3. Taxi industry: Occupancy rates are at historical lows of 26-28 per cent.

At a glance Few surprises for road and public transport users, with most funding going to the continuation and completion of previously confirmed projects. The North East Link gets $100 million for initial planning. The M80 ring road, between Laverton and Greensborough will be widened from end to end by 2021, at a cost of $673 million - the federal government will cover half the cost. Malcolm Turnbull will also have to play ball if the budget's public transport centrepiece, a $1.45 billion regional rail revival that targets most of the V/Line system, goes ahead.

To pay for it, the Andrews government is banking on money it says it is owed from the federal asset recycling fund for privatising the Port of Melbourne. $193 million for the Night Network – the 24-hour public transport on Fridays and Saturdays. $311 million for 39 new V/Line carriages and $218 million for 10 new E-Class trams, both of which are desperately needed to handle huge passenger growth. Police. Credit:Paul Harris Your safety

Winners 1. $2 billion for 2729 extra police officers. 2. Prisons, detention centres, secure mental health facilities; several are receiving funding to be built or expanded, including new youth justice and serious offender facilities. Losers

1. Anybody hoping for any surprise announcements. Most of the big-ticket items had already been announced, and the family violence funding is hardly a shock, given it is allocated to policies which had already been announced. 2. No funding for Victoria Police to revamp its operating model; to move away from smaller suburban stations to larger hubs, something the force has long advocated for, but which is politically sensitive, given it could mean closing police stations. At a glance The Andrews Government has tried to cover off the main fronts of attack the Opposition have used to question its law and order credentials - police numbers, youth justice, and the management of the state's worst offenders - while ensuring it also maintains its strong focus on stamping out family violence. Emergency ward staff are vulnerable to drug and alcohol-affected patients. Credit:Louie Douvis

Health Winners 1. Drug and alcohol services: 14 per cent funding increase, including an additional $81m to treat substance abuse. 2. Mental health: $406 million investment that includes 579 additional inpatient services. 3. Melbourne's west and north: $50m to plan and potentially purchase land for a new Footscray hospital. And funding of $162Million for the Northern Hospital redevelopment.

Losers 1. Victoria's East: a new hospital for Warragul appears to be on the backburner. 2. Ballarat Hospital: There don't appear to be funds to fit out new operating theatres. At a Glance The budget has taken some big steps towards addressing services for mental health and for the treatment of drug and alcohol issues.

An $81 million commitment to drug and alcohol services includes 30 new rehab beds and counselling services for 3800 broken families. The $325.7 million for mental health is the highest ever investment in the area and includes more mental health beds and emergency capacity in hospitals. It's also the first time the state government has funded Aboriginal-controlled health organisations to provide specialist mental health and drug and alcohol care. There's also $215 million to overhaul quality and safety in the health system by implementing all recommendations made by Stephen Duckett's review in the wake of the Bacchus Marsh baby deaths scandal. Funds are slowly being funnelled into growth corridors in the city's north and west with $50m to plan for a new hospital in Footscray and $162m to fund the Northern Hospital redevelopment. But some hospitals have missed out. Plans for a new hospital in Warragul have been put on the backburner and there's no funding to fit out empty floors in the Ballarat Hospital with operating theatres. Hitting the heartland: The overall effect of the latest round of home loan interest rate rejigs will be to improve bank earnings. Credit:Michele Mossop

Housing/Planning Winners 1. A new $6 million fund to stop inappropriate development along the Yarra River. 2. $3 million for another two years to revitalise Geelong's city centre. 3. A largely industrial area of South Melbourne will get $10 million to help prepare it for a new primary school - part of the Fishermans Bend precinct.

Losers 1. The outer suburbs: $25m cut from fund to help outer suburban councils build infrastructure. 2. Property investors who, despite an easing in the rate of growth of land tax, are still paying more than half a billion dollars extra on the land tax take two years ago. 3. Home purchasers who will pour $6 billion into treasury coffers this financial year, growing to $7.5 billion over the forward estimates. At a Glance

This year's low-key budget for planning follows the once-in-a-generation fireworks of 2016 by minister Richard Wynne, with a total remodelling - largely designed by the private sector - of Victoria's planning system. It also includes a 50 per cent cut to a fund that 10 outer Melbourne councils can apply to for vital community facilities such as ovals, parks and community centres. Canberra has the highest median weekly household income in Australia. Business Winners 1. Payroll tax cuts for 38,000 businesses, with a lower tax-free threshold from July 1.

2. Regional businesses will get a 25 per cent cut, meaning they face some the lowest payroll tax rates in the nation. Losers 1. Some businesses will still face high payroll tax bills - the government expects payroll tax revenue will grow by 3 per cent to $5.9 billion in 2017-18, and 5 per cent over the following years, reflecting an increase in full-time and part-time jobs. At a glance $48 million to bring forward increases to payroll tax-free threshold from July 1, plus payroll tax rate reductions for regional business from 4.85 per cent to 3.65 per cent.

$90 million to attract private sector investment and job creation in manufacturing and aviation and $24.8 million for Visit Victoria to attract tourism. $10.2 million Local Industry Fund for Transition Program supporting those who've lost jobs in automotive industry with retraining and career advice. UNEMPLOYMENT . AFR . 980309 . PIC BY VIRGINIA STAR . Saved In News . 980310 . Generic Employment . CES . Employment National . Jobs . Working . Blue Collar Worker . ***afrphotos.com*** searching job ads career Credit:Virginia Star Jobs Winners

1. $90 million for businesses that want to invest in Victoria. This also includes business subsidies for gas prices. 2. $24.8 million for Visit Victoria, funding to support tourism campaigns and tourism businesses. Losers 1. Anyone facing redundancy. There is only $10.2 million to extend industry transition funding to assist retrenched workers to find new jobs – compared to $266 million committed in the mid-year budget update to the Latrobe Valley Assistance package. At a Glance

Loading Government job policy often flounders on either trying to pick winners or prop up certain struggling industries, and there is the risk of that here. $10.2 million to assist workers find new jobs – particularly in the challenged manufacturing sector – is nothing compared to the money high-profile workers at Hazelwood have already received. And the $90 million fund is essentially an industry subsidy fund, with the biggest benefits flowing directly to large companies, not their employees. Liam Mannix, Henrietta Cook, Nino Bucci, Adam Carey, Rania Spooner, Clay Lucas, Nassim Khadem