Victorian state budget 2017-18: The winners and losers

2. $131 million for child protection services;  450 extra child protection officers

3. $78.4 million to expand substance abuse treatment programs

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.

Funding to tackle family violence leads today's budget announcement. It is a major investment in a feel-good program that everyone can agree is badly needed, and implements every one 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.

Education

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

1. Those who want clarity about school funding beyond 2018

2. City families who desperately want a new Docklands school

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.

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 tree changer squeeze. $311 million

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.

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.

1. Drug and alcohol services: 14 per cent funding increase, including an additional $78m 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.

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.

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 Frankston 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.

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.

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.

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.