Eight questions where the sourced records show a genuine choice in direction,
method or scale. Open any party card to see the full claims and original sources.
Selected contrasts, not a ranking. Inclusion here does not mean an
issue is more important than one left out. The short introductions are editorial
summaries of the differences already visible in the source-backed ledger. Party
headlines and detailed claims below are generated from the same records used by the
matrix. Policy cells show only positions with an individually sourced public record (manifesto, press release, Hansard, or Parliamentary Budget Office costing). An empty cell means no sourced position is in the ledger yet — not that a party has no view, and not an editorial judgement of importance.
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Direct oppositionJurisdiction: Fed/State
Should Victoria continue Treaty?
The sourced records divide cleanly between parties supporting the Statewide Treaty framework and parties opposing it or seeking to unwind it.
Greens
Support Treaty, self-determination and stronger land and cultural-heritage rights
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Support Treaty, self-determination and stronger land and cultural-heritage rights
Position
Support the Victorian Statewide Treaty Bill without amendment as a step toward justice, truth and First Nations self-determination.
Treat First Nations peoples as partners in policies and services that affect them and support representative bodies elected and accepted by their communities.
Negotiate Traditional Owner settlements that provide land and asset bases for cultural, social and economic development according to community priorities.
Strengthen the Aboriginal Heritage Act so relevant Registered Aboriginal Parties make heritage decisions and cultural items are returned to and managed by Traditional Owners.
Continue the Aboriginal Justice Agreement and related Koori Courts and justice forums, with targeted action to reduce First Nations over-representation in the justice system.
Implement Victoria's Statewide Treaty and Gellung Warl institutions
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Implement Victoria's Statewide Treaty and Gellung Warl institutions
Position
Maintain and implement the Statewide Treaty Act 2025 and the binding Treaty agreement signed between the Victorian Government and the First Peoples' Assembly. The Act received Royal Assent on 13 November 2025 and Treaty commenced on 12 December 2025.
Support Gellung Warl, established on 1 May 2026, as the permanent First Peoples representative entity comprising an assembly, a truth-telling arm and an independent accountability mechanism.
The Government states that Gellung Warl operates within parliamentary sovereignty, has no veto over policy or legislation and is subject to oversight by bodies including VAGO, IBAC and the Ombudsman.
Use Treaty institutions to develop practical reforms in areas affecting First Peoples, including health, housing and education, while allowing further statewide and traditional-owner treaty negotiations under the established framework.
Oppose and repeal Victoria's Statewide Treaty framework
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Oppose and repeal Victoria's Statewide Treaty framework
Opposition
One Nation Victoria opposed the Statewide Treaty Bill 2025, arguing that it would divide Victorians, create unequal treatment and add costly bureaucracy rather than improve practical outcomes.
One Nation MP Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell is sponsoring a Legislative Council petition calling for repeal of the Statewide Treaty Act 2025 and a return to equal treatment under state law.
The central split is whether new coal and gas should be prohibited, retained for transition and reliability, or expanded as part of Victoria's future energy mix.
Greens
100% renewable energy by 2030, public infrastructure and no new coal or gas
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100% renewable energy by 2030, public infrastructure and no new coal or gas
Pledge
Transition Victoria to 100% renewable energy by 2030 while maintaining a reliable and stable electricity grid.
Use public investment and ownership for storage and transmission infrastructure, including community-owned microgrids, to support energy security, stable prices and the renewable transition.
Establish government-backed loans so households can install efficiency upgrades, solar panels and batteries, with repayment deferred until the home is sold.
Free midday power, legislated renewable targets and storage-backed reliability
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Free midday power, legislated renewable targets and storage-backed reliability
Pledge
From 1 October 2026, participating households will receive three hours of free electricity every day between 11 am and 2 pm under the Midday Power Saver offer. Around 2.6 million households will be eligible, with estimated annual savings varying according to how much usage is shifted to midday.
Maintain Victoria's legislated renewable electricity targets of 65 per cent by 2030 and 95 per cent by 2035, including offshore wind targets of at least 2 GW by 2032, 4 GW by 2035 and 9 GW by 2040.
Deliver at least 2.6 GW of energy storage by 2030 and 6.3 GW by 2035, supported by targeted gas-fired generation for peak demand and periods of low wind and solar generation.
Continue the state-owned SEC investment and workforce program, including an academy intended to train 2,000 electrical trade apprentices over four years and a regional energy jobs plan projected to deliver more than $18 billion in wages from 2026 to 2040.
Reverse the gas ban; urban solar parks; review major transmission projects
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Shared Coalition policy
Reverse the gas ban; urban solar parks; review major transmission projects
Pledge
Reverse Victoria’s restrictions on new gas connections and reopen the state to conventional gas exploration, presenting household energy choice and additional supply as affordability measures.
Reverse the gas ban; urban solar parks; review major transmission projects
Pledge
Reverse Victoria’s restrictions on new gas connections and reopen the state to conventional gas exploration, presenting household energy choice and additional supply as affordability measures.
Energy choice, urban solar parks and a pause on major transmission projects
Pledge
Reverse Victoria’s restrictions on new gas connections and reopen the state to conventional gas exploration, presenting household energy choice and additional supply as affordability measures.
Coal, gas, nuclear and hydro with no new renewable subsidies
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Coal, gas, nuclear and hydro with no new renewable subsidies
Position
One Nation Victoria supports an energy mix including coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro and other technologies, arguing that reliability and affordability should determine investment.
The party proposes changing National Electricity Market rules so coal generation is not disadvantaged and giving long-term policy certainty for upgrades to Victorian coal power infrastructure.
It would prohibit specified wind and solar developments on prime agricultural land, offshore areas, native forests or high bushfire-risk sites, and require rehabilitation bonds for energy projects.
Only one recorded platform proposes a two-year rent freeze followed by permanent caps. The other records emphasise supply, planning, taxation, ownership or population pressures instead.
Greens
Rent controls, 88,000 public homes, stamp-duty reform and affordable-housing rules
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Rent controls, 88,000 public homes, stamp-duty reform and affordable-housing rules
Pledge
Freeze rents for two years, then cap annual increases at wage growth or CPI, whichever is lower; tie increases to the property rather than the tenant.
Require meaningful community participation in planning and mandatory minimum proportions of genuinely affordable or public housing in large residential developments.
Social housing investment, activity-centre density and faster approvals
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Social housing investment, activity-centre density and faster approvals
Costed measure
Invest a further $860 million over five years in the Social Housing Growth Fund, intended to support more than 7,000 additional social homes over the following decade.
Continue concentrating additional housing near train and tram corridors, employment and services rather than returning planning authority entirely to individual councils.
Proceed with tunnelling for Suburban Rail Loop East, which the Government describes as supporting around 70,000 additional homes over 30 years around the first-stage precincts.
Replace Labor’s activity-centre approach with community-led structure plans and restore a stronger role for councils and local communities in middle and outer suburban planning.
Replace Labor’s activity-centre approach with community-led structure plans and restore a stronger role for councils and local communities in middle and outer suburban planning.
Replace Labor’s activity-centre approach with community-led structure plans and restore a stronger role for councils and local communities in middle and outer suburban planning.
Reduce demand, release land and cut taxes and planning delays
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Reduce demand, release land and cut taxes and planning delays
Pledge
One Nation Victoria advocates a ban on foreign ownership of residential property, with existing foreign owners given time to sell, to increase the stock available to Australian buyers.
The party proposes reviewing state fees, taxes, charges and duties with a view to reducing or removing those that increase housing costs, including insurance duty.
One Nation Victoria would allow tax-free room rental in an owner’s principal residence and remove restrictions preventing granny flats being rented to people other than immediate family.
The party proposes faster land releases and building approvals, release of under-used government land, and collaboration with councils to accelerate suitable residential rezoning.
One platform proposes permanently free trains, trams and buses. Other records use temporary fare relief, service investment or do not contain an equivalent statewide fare promise.
Greens
Permanent free public transport, more frequent services and safer active transport
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Permanent free public transport, more frequent services and safer active transport
Pledge
Make trains, trams and buses permanently free across metropolitan and regional Victoria.
Increase train, tram and bus frequency, including high-frequency electric bus networks and early works for additional metropolitan and regional rail capacity.
The Greens secured a legislated share of Melbourne's congestion levy providing five councils with $150 million over a decade for bike lanes, accessible station connections and walking infrastructure.
Roads blitz, locally built trains and regional freight maintenance
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Roads blitz, locally built trains and regional freight maintenance
Costed measure
Invest $1.04 billion in road rebuilding, resurfacing and maintenance, with 70 per cent of the program directed to regional Victoria and works described as equivalent to repairing around 200,000 potholes.
Purchase 25 additional locally built X'Trapolis 2.0 trains, supporting about 750 manufacturing and supply-chain jobs and expanding capacity on Melbourne's rail network.
Invest $127 million in maintenance and renewal of the regional rail freight network, including track, bridges and other infrastructure used by agricultural and industrial freight.
Regional roads and services, restrained major-project spending and PPP delivery
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Regional roads and services, restrained major-project spending and PPP delivery
Pledge
One Nation Victoria supports investment in regional roads, telecommunications, hospitals, schools, sporting facilities and water infrastructure to improve services and supply-chain productivity outside Melbourne.
The party proposes capping expenditure on high-profile projects it regards as wasteful and redirecting investment towards essential and productivity-enhancing infrastructure.
One Nation Victoria supports public-private partnerships for selected major hospital projects, with private finance and construction but continued public ownership and public clinical services.
The records differ over ownership limits, licensing checks and protection of lawful sporting, farming and hunting use. The Liberal and Nationals records are also not identical on every measure.
Greens
Ownership limits, tighter licence checks and restrictions on high-risk firearms
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Ownership limits, tighter licence checks and restrictions on high-risk firearms
Pledge
Introduce strict limits on the number of firearms an individual may own.
Stronger licensing checks, permanent prohibition orders and tougher trafficking penalties
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Stronger licensing checks, permanent prohibition orders and tougher trafficking penalties
Pledge
Require firearms licence applicants and renewing licensees to undergo national AusCheck background checks using criminal and national-security intelligence.
Reject a numerical cap on firearms held by an individual licensee while recognising legitimate use by primary producers, hunters and sporting shooters.
Nationals: Target criminal access while protecting licensed farmers, hunters and sporting shooters
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Party-specific positions
The Nationals have a published Victorian firearms position; no qualifying Victorian Liberal policy is recorded.
Liberal
No sourced position recorded
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Nationals
Target criminal access while protecting licensed farmers, hunters and sporting shooters
Opposition
Oppose numerical caps on firearms held by compliant licence holders, arguing that caps would burden farmers, hunters, sporting shooters and clubs without addressing criminal access.
Permit regulated use of noise-suppression devices for pest, stock and feral-animal management and facilitate supervised junior participation in shooting sports.
Prevention and diversion, or tougher bail and sentencing?
The records expose a broader divide between prevention, diversion and rehabilitation on one side, and tougher bail, sentencing and enforcement measures on the other.
Greens
Justice reinvestment, bail support and stronger rights in police custody
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Justice reinvestment, bail support and stronger rights in police custody
Position
Prioritise evidence-based crime prevention and justice reinvestment in communities over politically driven law-and-order campaigns.
Expand and properly fund community corrections, restorative justice, diversion programs and regional bail-support services, while treating prison as a last resort.
The Better Rights in Police Custody Bill would limit extended detention in police cells, end repeated transfers between stations and give people in police custody equivalent rights to healthcare and visitors.
Tougher bail and youth sentencing alongside permanent violence prevention
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Tougher bail and youth sentencing alongside permanent violence prevention
Costed measure
The 2026–27 Budget provides $1.7 billion for police, courts, corrections, youth justice and emergency services, including additional PSOs and police reservists intended to return sworn officers to frontline duties.
Continue the tougher bail regime brought fully into effect on 31 March 2026, supported by additional prison and youth-justice capacity and seven additional magistrates.
Apply Adult Time for Violent Crime to children aged 14 and over charged with specified serious violent offences, transferring those matters to adult courts where community safety and victim impact receive greater weight.
Make the Violence Reduction Unit a permanent part of the justice system, combining early intervention with police and justice responses to youth and violent crime.
Commission an independent review and rewrite of Victoria's sentencing laws, aimed at clearer, more consistent sentencing aligned with community expectations.
Liberal: Safer Communities Plan — police, bail, Adult Crime Adult Time · Nationals: Coalition Safer Communities Plan (shared with Liberals)
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Shared platform + differences
Shared Safer Communities platform with additional Nationals-specific emphasis.
Liberal
Safer Communities Plan — police, bail, Adult Crime Adult Time
Position
“Only my Liberal and Nationals team has a plan to end Labor’s crime crisis and keep Victorians safe. Labor’s weak laws and revolving-door bail system are putting dangerous offenders back on the street and continuing the cycle of crime. The system must change.”
Under the Liberals and Nationals’ Safer Communities Plan, a future Jess Wilson-led Government will: “Implement genuine Adult Crime, Adult Time laws by expanding the number of serious offences uplifted to the County Court by adding a further twelve offences, including burglary, serious assault and attempted murder.”
“Introduce a strict one-strike bail rule for these uplifted serious offences, meaning offenders on bail who re-offend will be automatically denied bail.”
These bail and sentencing reforms are part of the Liberals and Nationals’ Safer Communities Plan, “which includes hiring 3,000 more police, 200 new PSOs, reopening more than 40 police stations and returning PSOs to 120 train stations, as well as investing in crime prevention and rehabilitation initiatives.”
Coalition Safer Communities Plan (shared with Liberals)
Pledge
Community safety will be restored under a tough new bail and sentencing policy announced by Jess Wilson’s Liberal and Nationals team, including genuine Adult Crime, Adult Time expansion, a one-strike bail rule for uplifted serious offences, and hiring 3,000 more police as part of the Safer Communities Plan.
Nationals Ripon candidate Jo Armstrong: “We have a plan that will scrap taxes and deliver cost-of-living relief, crack down on crime, improve our roads, and build more houses.”
The party supports expanding youth detention capacity and says courts should give community safety greater weight when considering bail for repeat offenders.
One Nation Victoria proposes a victim support program covering counselling, legal assistance and financial help, plus restitution requirements for young offenders where appropriate.
The party would examine structured intervention programs for at-risk young people and a panel to review serious crimes committed by offenders released on bail.
How complete should Victoria's native-forest logging exit be?
The dispute is over whether remaining logging pathways should be closed, and how much room should remain for private-land, salvage, interstate timber and regional forestry activity.
Greens
Close logging loopholes and restore native forests
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Close logging loopholes and restore native forests
Pledge
Prohibit Victorian mills from processing native-forest timber sourced anywhere in Australia and ban commercial native-forest logging on private land.
Substantially increase investment in forest protection, ecological restoration and regional employment, and manage regrowth toward mature forest for biodiversity, carbon storage and water yield.
End native timber harvesting, restore habitat and expand forest recreation
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End native timber harvesting, restore habitat and expand forest recreation
Position
Maintain the end of commercial native timber harvesting in Victoria's state forests, which took effect on 1 January 2024, while plantation forestry and limited regulated forest-produce licensing continue.
Invest in access, recreation and management across 1.8 million hectares of former timber-harvesting state forests, including tracks, trails, amenities, community-designed Healthy Forest Plans and additional rangers.
Continue the BushBank nature-restoration program, which is planting millions of native trees and plants and is intended to restore more than 20,000 hectares of land across Victoria.
Retain the Biodiversity 2037 framework, including habitat restoration, threatened-species conservation, pest and weed control, and a long-term goal of net gains in habitat extent and condition.
Liberal: Agricultural impact tests, landholder protections and a bushfire inquiry · Nationals: Agricultural impact tests, landholder protections and restoration of native forestry
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Shared platform + differences
Shared landholder and transmission commitments with additional Nationals native-forestry policy.
Liberal
Agricultural impact tests, landholder protections and a bushfire inquiry
Pledge
Require independent agricultural and economic impact assessments for major renewable-energy and transmission proposals to protect prime farmland and food production.
Agricultural impact tests, landholder protections and restoration of native forestry
Pledge
Require independent agricultural and economic impact assessments for major renewable-energy and transmission proposals to protect prime farmland and food production.
Pause VNI West and the Western Renewables Link during a transmission-plan review and restore appeal and landholder protections around compulsory acquisition.
Use the Auditor-General’s findings to argue for greater accountability for native-timber transition spending and direct assistance to affected workers and communities.
Practical conservation, fire mitigation and support for forestry
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Practical conservation, fire mitigation and support for forestry
Pledge
One Nation Victoria proposes more firebreaks and planned burning, greater investment in early warning systems, floodplain management and bushfire prevention, and research into disaster-resistant infrastructure.
The party supports targeted conservation, habitat restoration, responsible land and water management, improved access to national parks, and marine conservation research.
One Nation supports expanding plantation forestry for timber self-sufficiency and maintaining regulated native forestry while protecting old-growth forests and environmentally sensitive habitat.
New taxes for services, or tax relief and debt restraint?
The platforms differ over wealth, bank and property taxes, the pace of debt repair, public investment, spending restraint and tax relief.
Greens
Progressive property and bank taxes, public financing and a wellbeing budget
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Progressive property and bank taxes, public financing and a wellbeing budget
Costed measure
Increase land tax to 5.3% for investors holding more than $5 million in residential investment property, with the Greens reporting $6.4 billion in revenue over a decade.
Apply a 0.05% levy to major banks operating in Victoria, which the Greens estimate would raise more than $1 billion a year and $16.5 billion over a decade.
Introduce a wellbeing budget that reports environmental health, equality, public services, infrastructure and community participation alongside conventional financial measures.
Prefer direct public financing and delivery of infrastructure, abolish public-private partnerships and bring outsourced core services back into the public sector.
Budget forecasts show net debt increasing from $165.3 billion in June 2026 to $199.3 billion in June 2030 while the Government expects debt to fall as a share of gross state product from 2026–27 onwards.
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$199.3 billion forecast net debt in 2029–30 taxpayer funded
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Maintain positive net operating cash flows across the forward estimates, which the Budget forecasts at about $6.3 billion to $6.5 billion annually from 2026–27 through 2029–30.
Back-office hiring freeze, cash surplus by 2032 and tighter expenditure controls
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Shared Coalition policy
Back-office hiring freeze, cash surplus by 2032 and tighter expenditure controls
Costed measure
Freeze recruitment into back-office Victorian Public Service roles while excluding frontline teachers, nurses and police; the Coalition estimates natural attrition would save $22 billion over ten years.
Return Victorian Public Service staffing to its population-adjusted 2014–15 level through natural attrition as part of a plan to deliver a cash surplus by 2032 and reduce debt.
Back-office hiring freeze, cash surplus by 2032 and tighter expenditure controls
Costed measure
Freeze recruitment into back-office Victorian Public Service roles while excluding frontline teachers, nurses and police; the Coalition estimates natural attrition would save $22 billion over ten years.
Return Victorian Public Service staffing to its population-adjusted 2014–15 level through natural attrition as part of a plan to deliver a cash surplus by 2032 and reduce debt.
Back-office hiring freeze, cash surplus by 2032 and tighter expenditure controls
Costed measure
Freeze recruitment into back-office Victorian Public Service roles while excluding frontline teachers, nurses and police; the Coalition estimates natural attrition would save $22 billion over ten years.
Return Victorian Public Service staffing to its population-adjusted 2014–15 level through natural attrition as part of a plan to deliver a cash surplus by 2032 and reduce debt.
Spending review, lower debt and a phase-out of payroll tax
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Spending review, lower debt and a phase-out of payroll tax
Pledge
One Nation Victoria proposes a comprehensive review of state government spending to identify and eliminate waste, reduce budget deficits and slow the growth of state debt.
The party would introduce a public, real-time reporting tool for departmental expenditure and cap spending on high-profile projects it regards as wasteful.
One Nation Victoria says it will phase out Victorian payroll tax while using grants and tax incentives to encourage manufacturing, technology and regional investment.
