Vic Socialists: what they stand for

👍 What Vic Socialists supports 15

• New taxes on big business & wealth

  Tax billionaires' wealth and the banks to pay for services.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Government action on grocery prices

  Cost-price food hubs and capped supermarket prices.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Rent caps or freeze

  A five-year rent freeze.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Large public/social housing build

  150,000 new public homes.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Keep legislated renewable & emissions targets

  Move to 100% publicly owned renewable energy.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Public ownership of energy (SEC)

  Take power into public hands to cap electricity and gas bills.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Cheaper or free public transport

  Free public transport, and reverse transport privatisation.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Legalise cannabis

  Harm reduction based on legalising and regulating drugs.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Shift money from policing to services

  Put police budget increases into housing, youth and social services instead.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Free abortion care

  Free, accessible abortion.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Curb pokies & gambling industry

  Phase out all pokies and ban gambling advertising and political donations.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• End greyhound racing subsidies inferred

  Wants to end the use of animals for sport and entertainment.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Ban corporate/industry donations

  Ban gambling-industry political donations.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Statewide Treaty & Gellung Warl

  A Treaty that delivers material change, not just symbolic recognition.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• LGBTIQA+ equality programs

  Publicly funded gender-affirmation care and an end to religious exemptions from discrimination law.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

👎 What Vic Socialists opposes 3

• Restart native forest logging

  Opposes old-growth logging.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Keep duck hunting legal inferred

  Wants to end the use of animals for sport and entertainment.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

• Sell or transfer public assets

  Opposes selling public land and privatising transport.

  Source: Victorian Socialists

👻 What Vic Socialists doesn't mention 29

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

• Cut land tax
• Cut stamp duty
• 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
• New gas exploration
• Prop up coal power
• Lift the nuclear ban
• Suburban Rail Loop
• Guaranteed regional funding share
• Treat young violent offenders as adults
• Lower the age of criminal responsibility
• Tougher bail laws
• Warrantless knife searches (Jack's Law)
• Expand self-defence rights
• Loosen firearm laws
• Free public dental
• Expanded voluntary assisted dying
• Hospital ED expansion
• AI data centre moratorium
• Construction/Big Build royal commission
• Stronger IBAC powers
• Shrink the public service
• 2026 upper-house voting change
• Ban specific protest phrases
• Lower immigration / population growth

➕ Also promising

• $35 minimum wage on government-funded work; a state bank.
• MPs' pay capped at $96,000.
• Votes at 16.
• Scrap AUKUS (a federal power).