"This is a constrained budget, this is a responsible budget" - Treasurer Jaclyn Symes
"It's a budget that does nothing to fundamentally fix the big problems Victorians are facing" - Greens leader Ellen Sandell
"This budget fails the basic test. It spends big, plans little, and leaves the next generation to pick up the bill" - Opposition Leader Jess Wilson
"This budget is already unravelling as fast as a ball of wool at a kitten convention" - Nationals leader Danny O'Brien
"We believe there could be additional spending not fully captured in the budget" - S&P Global Ratings analyst Rebecca Hrvatin
"This is a cost-of-living budget that you can actually feel on the way to work" - Victorian Trades Hall Council assistant secretary Danae Bosler
"Our teachers, principals, education support staff, and our students and their families cannot afford to wait any longer for full and fair funding for public schools" - Australian Education Union state branch president Justin Mullaly
"This funding (for reservists) is over and above the police operating budget" - Victorian police union secretary Wayne Gatt
"Victorians deserve a public service that is secure, stable, and staffed by hard-working, talented Victorians. Not disingenuous platitudes" - Community and Public Sector Union Victoria branch assistant secretary Mitch Vandewerdt-Holman
"Budgets are all about choices and business was not chosen today" - Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Sally Curtain
"Business was hardly mentioned in the budget" - Committee for Melbourne chief executive Scott Veenker
"The government is not showing the requisite commitment to delivering housing supply" - Property Council of Australia Victorian executive director Cath Evans
"Until we see real measures ... we're not going to see housing affordability improve" - Urban Development Institute of Australia's Victoria chief executive Linda Allison
"In a tough economic environment, the government has used this budget to help Victorians on the lowest incomes with theirs" - Community Housing Industry Association Victoria chief executive Sarah Toohey
"The reality is that unaddressed family violence costs the economy so much more when governments fail to properly invest" - Safe and Equal interim chief executive Christine Mathieson
"This is a government that has done a lot of heavy lifting on the energy transition, but there are missing pieces that will worsen inequality if left unaddressed" - Environment Victoria campaigns director Alex Merory
"The budget has been sold as Victoria's vision for the future, but is lacking when it comes to detail for regional Victoria" - Victorian Farmers Federation president Peter Star