Liza Shaw

Shaw says running her family's small fruit farm in Muckleford gave her firsthand insight into how climate pressures and rising living costs affect regional families — from food security and housing stress to energy affordability.

She lists tackling the cost-of-living crisis among her core reasons for standing in Bendigo West, though without a specific costed mechanism attached in available material.

No personal statement from Shaw on crime or policing was found. The statewide Victorian Greens justice platform (party line, not specific to her campaign) calls to raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14 and to base bail decisions on individual risk rather than offence category alone.

The same statewide platform opposes mandatory sentencing in favour of judicial discretion, backs expanded diversionary programs for young offenders, and would ban transferring child prisoners into adult prisons.

"Expand affordable housing" is one of the four reasons Shaw gives for standing; she connects it to her own observation of housing stress among regional families through her farm and community-health work.

The statewide Greens housing platform her campaign runs under calls for government-implemented rent controls, extending rent-increase/eviction notice periods from 60 to 90 days, and replacing stamp duty with land tax.

That platform also calls for increased public-housing investment to substantially reduce statewide waiting times, without specifying a dollar figure or numeric target.

No infrastructure statement specific to Shaw or Bendigo West was found from her directly. The statewide Greens transport platform proposes permanently free metropolitan and regional trains, trams and buses, plus a new public "Transport Super Agency."

That platform separately proposes increased rail and bus services linking Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo, including reviving the historical Geelong–Ballarat passenger line — relevant to Bendigo West's connectivity, though not confirmed as something Shaw has personally campaigned on.

No personal statement on schools or TAFE from Shaw was found. The statewide Greens education platform calls for fully funding government schools to Gonski-recommended levels and says the state government cut roughly $2.4 billion from public-school funding that should be reinstated.

The same platform sets a benchmark of at least 80% permanent teaching positions in schools and TAFE, and guarantees recurrent public funding to TAFE as the state's primary vocational training provider.

Shaw describes herself as "a local mum, community health worker and climate advocate," giving her a professional health background, but no specific personal statement on hospital funding or wait times was found.

The statewide Greens health platform her campaign operates under calls for more psychologists and psychiatrists in schools and public clinics, plus more funding for drug and alcohol rehabilitation beds.

Shaw calls herself a "climate advocate" and lists protecting the environment first among her reasons for standing, linking it to climate pressures she says she has observed affecting regional families through her Muckleford farm.

The statewide Greens platform her campaign sits under proposes a legislated target of 3 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030 and increasing Victoria's legislated renewable energy target toward 100%.

Shaw names "First Nations justice" as one of her four core reasons for standing in Bendigo West, though her own material does not go beyond that phrase into specific Treaty mechanisms.

The Victorian Greens' own account of the 2025 Statewide Treaty Act says their MPs voted for it in Parliament and frames the new Gellung Warl body (replacing the First Peoples' Assembly) as one the government must consult on all legislation affecting Aboriginal Victorians.

Gellung Warl and the Statewide Treaty framework are established under Victorian law — a matter of public record that exists independently of any party's or candidate's position on it.

Shaw's own framing is the most seat-specific of any issue: she runs a small fruit farm in Muckleford, inside Bendigo West, and says this exposed her directly to food-security, housing-stress and energy-affordability pressures on regional families.

On forestry — a live issue in central Victoria's former timber towns — the statewide Greens platform (native forest logging was already banned across Victoria from January 2024) calls for a maximum five-year transition to plantation/recycled timber only, FSC certification, and retraining or other assistance for affected workers and communities.

Separately, a roughly $160 million Bendigo-area water security and efficiency upgrade — a government project, not a Shaw or Greens proposal — is modernising Coliban Water infrastructure serving Bendigo and surrounding townships, addressing high leakage in the rural supply channels.