Labor: what they stand for

👍 What Labor supports 22

• Cut land tax

  Reverse the 2023 land-tax threshold change, lifting it towards $300,000 over six years.

  Source: Victorian Labor, ABC News

• Cap road tolls

  $30/week cap on CityLink, EastLink and West Gate tolls from January 2027, paid as a rebate ($191m).

  Source: Victorian Labor, ABC News

• Large public/social housing build

  $860m over five years for the Social Housing Growth Fund, plus 25,600 homes built with the Commonwealth and reserved for first-home buyers.

  Source: Victorian Government, Victorian Labor

• State-led density near transport

  Put more housing near trains, trams, jobs and services (activity centres).

  Source: Victorian Government

• Keep legislated renewable & emissions targets

  Keep the legislated targets: 65% renewables by 2030 and 95% by 2035, and net-zero emissions by 2045.

  Source: Victorian Government, Victorian Government

• Ban on gas in new homes

  The ban on gas in new homes is existing Labor-government policy. The reviewed material doesn't re-pledge it, but it doesn't propose dropping it either.

  Source: ABC News

• Public ownership of energy (SEC)

  Continue the state-owned SEC investment and workforce program.

  Source: Premier of Victoria

• Suburban Rail Loop

  Go ahead with tunnelling for SRL East.

  Source: Victorian Government

• Cheaper or free public transport

  Half-price fares June–December 2026, then a $30/week cap ($15 concession) for two years from 1 January 2027.

  Source: Victorian Government, Victorian Labor

• Guaranteed regional funding share

  'Royalties for the Regions': 100% of mineral royalties (about $500m over four years) goes back to regional Victoria.

  Source: Victorian Labor, ABC News

• Treat young violent offenders as adults

  'Adult Time for Violent Crime' now applies to children aged 14 and over charged with specified serious offences.

  Source: Premier of Victoria

• Tougher bail laws

  Keep the tougher bail regime, with more prison and youth-justice capacity and more magistrates.

  Source: Premier of Victoria

• Warrantless knife searches (Jack's Law)

  Jack's Law stop-and-search powers statewide by early 2027, with 1,200 hand-held metal detectors.

  Source: Victorian Labor

• Free public dental

  20 free walk-in public dental clinics, open to all ages ($230m).

  Source: Victorian Labor, ABC News

• Free abortion care

  No out-of-pocket costs for abortion under 16 weeks, and the medical-abortion window extended to 10 weeks.

  Source: Victorian Labor, ABC News

• Hospital ED expansion

  Expand 12 emergency departments by 25%, with 1,500 more health workers and 250 beds ($1.5bn).

  Source: Victorian Labor, ABC News

• Keep duck hunting legal

  In January 2024 the government rejected an inquiry's recommendation to ban duck hunting and tightened the rules instead. That is a 2024 decision, not a new pledge.

  Source: ABC News

• Construction/Big Build royal commission

  Carroll committed to a royal commission into the construction sector and a special prosecutor.

  Source: ABC News

• Stronger IBAC powers

  Give IBAC retrospective 'follow-the-money' powers over contractors and labour hire, with reform legislation by end-2027.

  Source: Premier of Victoria

• 2026 upper-house voting change

  The government legislated the abolition of group voting tickets. Voters now number at least five boxes above the line.

  Source: Wikipedia

• Statewide Treaty & Gellung Warl

  Keep and implement the Statewide Treaty Act 2025, with Gellung Warl as the permanent representative body.

  Source: Premier of Victoria

• LGBTIQA+ equality programs

  Keep LGBTIQA+ equality support, including the conversion-practices ban and $1.6m in grants.

  Source: Premier of Victoria

👎 What Labor opposes 3

• Loosen firearm laws

  Tightening: AusCheck background checks, licences generally limited to citizens, tougher trafficking penalties. It did reject a numerical cap on firearms per licensee.

  Source: Premier of Victoria, Premier of Victoria

• Legalise cannabis

  Government spokesperson: "no plans to change laws regarding personal use or possession of cannabis".

  Source: The Daily Aus

• Restart native forest logging

  Keep the end of commercial native timber harvesting, in effect since 1 January 2024.

  Source: DEECA

🤔 It's complicated 1

• Cut stamp duty

  Only a narrow cut: the off-the-plan stamp-duty concession runs to 21 April 2027. No broad stamp-duty cut.

  Source: Victorian Government

👻 What Labor doesn't mention 21

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

• Cut payroll tax
• New taxes on big business & wealth
• Government action on grocery prices
• Rent caps or freezeNo rent cap or freeze appears in Labor's reviewed 2026 material.
• Restrict foreign home buyers
• VNI West & Western Renewables LinkThese are Labor-government projects already under way. Labor's reviewed 2026 material doesn't restate them.
• New gas exploration
• Prop up coal power
• Lift the nuclear ban
• Lower the age of criminal responsibility
• Expand self-defence rights
• Shift money from policing to services
• Expanded voluntary assisted dying
• Curb pokies & gambling industry
• End greyhound racing subsidies
• AI data centre moratorium
• Ban corporate/industry donations
• Shrink the public service
• Sell or transfer public assetsThe Greens say Labor plans to sell Melbourne Water. No such plan appears in Labor's own reviewed material.
• Ban specific protest phrases
• Lower immigration / population growth

➕ Also promising

• Midday Power Saver: three free electricity hours a day (11am–2pm) from 1 October 2026.
• Fair Fuel Plan: daily maximum fuel prices.
• 20% rebate on light-vehicle registration.
• Keep Free Kinder and Free TAFE.

🪑 Labor's 69 sitting MPs

• Nina Taylor · Albert Park
• Matt Fregon · Ashwood
• Jordan Crugnale · Bass
• Jackson Taylor · Bayswater
• Alison Marchant · Bellarine
• Jacinta Allan · Bendigo East
• Maree Edwards · Bendigo West
• Nick Staikos · Bentleigh
• Paul Hamer · Box Hill
• Kathleen Matthews-Ward · Broadmeadows
• Colin Brooks · Bundoora
• Sonya Kilkenny · Carrum
• Meng Heang Tak · Clarinda
• Pauline Richards · Cranbourne
• Gabrielle Williams · Dandenong
• Vicki Ward · Eltham
• Danny Pearson · Essendon
• Michaela Settle · Eureka
• Katie Hall · Footscray
• Paul Edbrooke · Frankston
• Christine Couzens · Geelong
• John Mullahy · Glen Waverley
• Iwan Walters · Greenvale
• Paul Mercurio · Hastings
• Anthony Carbines · Ivanhoe
• Ros Spence · Kalkallo
• Luba Grigorovitch · Kororoit
• Ella George · Lara
• Sarah Connolly · Laverton
• Mary-Anne Thomas · Macedon
• Steve McGhie · Melton
• Lily D'Ambrosio · Mill Park
• Daniela De Martino · Monbulk
• Tim Richardson · Mordialloc
• Eden Foster · Mulgrave
• Belinda Wilson · Narre Warren North
• Gary Maas · Narre Warren South
• Ben Carroll · Niddrie
• Kat Theophanous · Northcote
• Steve Dimopoulos · Oakleigh
• Emma Vulin · Pakenham
• Anthony Cianflone · Pascoe Vale
• Mathew Hilakari · Point Cook
• Nathan Lambert · Preston
• Martha Haylett · Ripon
• Natalie Suleyman · St Albans
• Josh Bull · Sunbury
• Natalie Hutchins · Sydenham
• Dylan Wight · Tarneit
• Bronwyn Halfpenny · Thomastown
• Juliana Addison · Wendouree
• John Lister · Werribee
• Melissa Horne · Williamstown
• Lauren Kathage · Yan Yean
• Harriet Shing · Eastern Victoria Region
• Tom McIntosh · Eastern Victoria Region
• Shaun Leane · North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
• Sonja Terpstra · North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
• Enver Erdogan · Northern Metropolitan Region
• Sheena Watt · Northern Metropolitan Region
• Jaclyn Symes · Northern Victoria Region
• Lee Tarlamis · South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
• Michael Galea · South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
• John Berger · Southern Metropolitan Region
• Ryan Batchelor · Southern Metropolitan Region
• Ingrid Stitt · Western Metropolitan Region
• Lizzie Blandthorn · Western Metropolitan Region
• Gayle Tierney · Western Victoria Region
• Jacinta Ermacora · Western Victoria Region