Greens: what they stand for

👍 What Greens supports 14

• Cut stamp duty

  Cut stamp duty (the party says the average buyer saves about $60,000), paid for by taxing big banks and investors with more than $5m in homes they don't live in.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• New taxes on big business & wealth

  Tax big banks, gambling companies and large corporations, and double coal and gas royalties.

  Source: Victorian Greens, Victorian Greens

• Government action on grocery prices

  Trial 10 publicly owned supermarkets, aiming for up to 30% off essentials ($300–350m).

  Source: Victorian Greens, ABC News

• Rent caps or freeze

  Freeze rents, then cap increases so they never outpace wages.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Large public/social housing build

  Build 88,000 public homes, starting with $4bn. Opposes demolishing the 44 public housing towers.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Keep legislated renewable & emissions targets

  Go further: publicly owned renewables, solar on public buildings, and earlier closure of coal plants.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Public ownership of energy (SEC)

  A public energy retailer inside the SEC.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Cheaper or free public transport

  Make public transport permanently free, with more frequent services.

  Source: Victorian Greens, Victorian Greens

• Free public dental

  Free dental for all Victorians ($3bn), funded by taxing gambling corporations.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Curb pokies & gambling industry

  Tax gambling corporations and block their influence on politics. No specific pokies limits in the platform.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• AI data centre moratorium

  A moratorium on new AI data centres until protective laws exist.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Stronger IBAC powers

  Give the anti-corruption commission stronger powers.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Ban corporate/industry donations

  Ban big corporate donations and fossil-fuel donations to politicians.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Statewide Treaty & Gellung Warl

  Supports Treaty with First Nations communities.

  Source: Victorian Greens

👎 What Greens opposes 5

• New gas exploration

  Ban gas drilling in Victoria's oceans and oppose new fossil fuel projects.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Prop up coal power

  Close the remaining coal power stations earlier.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Restart native forest logging

  Close anti-logging loopholes and create new national parks.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Keep duck hunting legal

  End duck shooting.

  Source: Victorian Greens

• Sell or transfer public assets

  Legislate against selling off essential services, oppose any Melbourne Water sale, and bring road maintenance and electricity back into public hands.

  Source: Victorian Greens

👻 What Greens doesn't mention 28

Not in anything we reviewed for 2026. Silence isn't neutral, so worth asking candidates about.

• Cut land tax
• Cut payroll tax
• Cap road tolls
• State-led density near transport
• Restrict foreign home buyers
• VNI West & Western Renewables Link
• Ban on gas in new homes
• Lift the nuclear ban
• Suburban Rail LoopThe reviewed platform page doesn't take a position on the SRL.
• Guaranteed regional funding share
• Treat young violent offenders as adultsThe platform proposes 24/7 crisis outreach teams but says nothing on youth sentencing.
• Lower the age of criminal responsibility
• Tougher bail laws
• Warrantless knife searches (Jack's Law)
• Expand self-defence rights
• Loosen firearm laws
• Legalise cannabisDrug policy isn't on the reviewed platform page. The party may have a separate policy page.
• Shift money from policing to services
• Free abortion care
• Expanded voluntary assisted dying
• Hospital ED expansion
• End greyhound racing subsidies
• Construction/Big Build royal commission
• Shrink the public service
• 2026 upper-house voting change
• LGBTIQA+ equality programs
• Ban specific protest phrases
• Lower immigration / population growth

➕ Also promising

• $3,000 'Greens Power' voucher for renters and homeowners; up to $3,000 off EVs and e-bikes.
• Make big polluters fund climate-disaster clean-up.
• Reverse environment funding cuts.

🪑 Greens's 6 sitting MPs

• Ellen Sandell · Melbourne
• Gabrielle de Vietri · Richmond
• Aiv Puglielli · North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
• Anasina Gray-Barberio · Northern Metropolitan Region
• Katherine Copsey · Southern Metropolitan Region
• Sarah Mansfield · Western Victoria Region