Seva Melnikov

Party platform, not a candidate-specific statement: cut taxes that hit families and small employers hardest, namely winding back Labor's land tax increases on rental and small property owners, lifting the payroll tax threshold and abolishing the 10 per cent stamp duty on home, contents and car insurance.

Also pledges no stamp duty on new business structures for 12 months and cheaper power by scrapping net-zero targets. No dollar costings are given for the tax cuts.

Party platform, not a candidate-specific statement: aims to make Victoria the toughest state on crime across police, courts and corrections.

Measures include a 24/7 Bail Court, a presumption against bail for repeat offenders and those offending on bail, mandatory electronic supervision for bail on serious offences, a ninety-day charge-to-trial clock for serious violent charges, and three new Magistrates' Courts at Melton, Epping and Pakenham.

Would restore Intensive Correction Orders, introduce a presumption of escalation and cumulative sentencing, sentence children charged with serious violent offences as adults, lower the age of criminal responsibility back to 10, make parents liable for fines and damage by under-16s, and mandate a minimum sentence for assaults on police and emergency workers.

Also pledges to rebuild police administrative support, add sign-on bonuses for experienced officers, a pepper-spray trial and UK-style home self-defence law.

Party platform, not a candidate-specific statement: attributes housing pressure partly to net overseas migration and government fees and taxes, and would review and cut fees and charges on new homes, wind back land tax rises on rentals, and release under-used government land.

Further pledges: a legal clock on planning and building approvals, freeing up granny flats and spare-room rentals, a higher foreign purchaser duty, incentives for low-cost housing, and genuine community consultation before high-rise is imposed on established suburbs.

Party platform, not a candidate-specific statement: describes Victoria as carrying the country's worst debt, and would cancel the Suburban Rail Loop and abolish the Statewide Treaty body Gellung Warl to redirect funds.

Other measures: cutting top-level public service executives while increasing frontline staff, agency sunset reviews with expiry dates, a two-out-one-in rule on regulation, and a YourMoney.vic.gov.au site publishing all government spending. No overall debt target or budget costings are stated.

Party platform, not a candidate-specific statement: cancel the Suburban Rail Loop (citing a Parliamentary Budget Office return of 60 to 70 cents per dollar) and redirect the money to other infrastructure.

Would electrify the Melton line, complete the Airport Rail Link, finish regional freight and commuter track duplication, support Inland Rail, fix the regional road maintenance backlog and create a public Pothole Portal. Also promises a Royal Commission into the Big Build.

Party platform, not a candidate-specific statement: prioritise literacy, numeracy, science, history and civics, systematic phonics and explicit instruction, and replace the Victorian Curriculum with a knowledge-rich syllabus.

Would also expand trade schools and specialist behaviour support settings, require school behaviour protocols, and introduce school vouchers so funding follows the student.

Party platform, not a candidate-specific statement: interoperable statewide electronic medical records, better theatre utilisation, a real-time statewide waiting-list view, nurse-led discharge and nurse prescribing, and public targets to reduce ambulance ramping through bed capacity and discharge speed.

Also a regional healthcare guarantee (24/7 emergency departments and core maternity and surgical capacity in major regional hospitals), abolishing standalone DEI and ESG programs in health services, and one-step organ donor registration at licence renewal.

Party platform, not a candidate-specific statement: genuine community consultation before high-rise is imposed on established suburbs, and a legal clock on planning and building approvals.

Would also ban new data centres and large batteries on prime agricultural land and require community impact assessment and consultation near homes.

Party platform, not a candidate-specific statement: scrap all net-zero targets and subsidies, cancel VNI West, WRL and other large transmission projects, back upgrading coal power infrastructure, and reverse the ban on gas connections in new homes.

Would repeal the Nuclear Activities (Prohibitions) Act 1983, give Victorian households first call on Victorian gas, support offshore gas exploration, and ban industrial solar, wind, battery and transmission projects on irrigated, flood-prone, bushfire-prone or domestic water catchment land. The booklet does not discuss the SEC.

Party platform, not a candidate-specific statement: scrap the Statewide Treaty entirely, abolish Gellung Warl and end its legislated funding, which the booklet puts at roughly $70 million a year rising 2.5 per cent annually.

Frames this as respecting the 2023 federal Voice referendum result.

Party platform, not a candidate-specific statement: restrict water trading to farmers with land to irrigate, reinstate the 1,500 gigalitre buyback cap, and give full allocation at season start up to 120 per cent where storage allows.

Would rebuild native timber with selective harvesting, back a local-wood-first procurement policy, reinstate 35 fisheries roles, oppose the Great Forest National Park, and fund regional roads and rail.