Sourced positions
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Economic nationalism recorded votes
Votes on record · 1
- ✓Local Jobs First Amendment Bill 2025Strengthens enforcement of the local-content and jobs commitments suppliers make on government projects: the Local Jobs First Commissioner gets new investigation, reporting and site-inspection powers, and suppliers who fall short can be deprioritised for future contracts.31 Jul 2025 ↗
Economy & tax recorded votes
Votes on record · 13
- ✓State Taxation Further Amendment Bill 2025Raises the congestion levy on parking spaces in the central Melbourne area to $3,030 a space from 2026, in line with Sydney's CBD, with new exemptions and residential spaces excluded. It also adds vacant residential land tax exemptions, including for homes under construction, and changes how foreign-purchaser duty applies to New Zealand citizens.30 Oct 2025 ↗
- ✓Financial Management Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Requires government agencies to keep to their set budgets and report financial risks through an 'early warning system', and strengthens financial accountability when agencies are created or wound up.19 Jun 2025 ↗
- ✓Fire Services Property Amendment (Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund) Bill 2025Replaces the fire services property levy, collected with council rates, with a broader Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund levy from 1 July 2025 that also funds the SES, Triple Zero Victoria and recovery agencies. The speech expects it to raise $610.9 million more in 2025–26. Existing concessions continue, and emergency service volunteers can apply for an offset on their home or farmland.20 Mar 2025 ↗
- ✓Short Stay Levy Bill 2024Puts a levy on bookings of short-stay accommodation such as Airbnb-style rentals from 1 January 2025, collected by the State Revenue Office, with the money going to Homes Victoria for social and affordable housing and a quarter of it to regional Victoria. It also lets owners corporations regulate short stays in apartment buildings.12 Sep 2024 ↗
- ✓State Taxation Amendment Bill 2024Exempts social and emergency housing from land tax, raises the metropolitan waste levy from July 2025, creates a trust to support conservation covenants on private land in Melbourne, and makes other state tax changes from the 2024-25 Budget.15 May 2024 ↗
- ✓State Taxation Acts and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2023Extends the vacant residential land tax, on homes left empty more than six months a year, from inner and middle Melbourne to all of Victoria from 2025, and to unimproved residential land in established parts of Melbourne from 2026. It also makes other duties, land tax and valuation changes.5 Oct 2023 ↗19 Oct 2023 ↗
- ✓Victorian Future Fund Bill 2023Puts the Victorian Future Fund into law as a trust account to pay down State debt, funded by the upfront proceeds of the VicRoads Modernisation Joint Venture and invested for a return, as part of the government's debt stabilisation strategy after COVID-19.31 May 2023 ↗
- ✓State Taxation Acts Amendment Bill 2023Introduces the ten-year COVID Debt Levy: a payroll tax surcharge on employers with national payrolls over $10 million and higher land tax. It also limits the payroll tax exemption for non-government schools to low-fee schools, and raises the stamp duty concession threshold for pensioners.31 May 2023 ↗
Workplace & industrial relations recorded votes
Votes on record · 8
- ✓Associations Incorporation Reform Amendment Bill 2026Stops groups listed under Commonwealth law as terrorist organisations or prohibited hate groups from being incorporated associations, and lets the Registrar refuse registration in the public interest. It also excludes associations with industrial relations purposes, which the minister said belong under industrial relations law.27 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✓Workplace Legislation Amendment (Accident Compensation and Other Matters) Bill 2026Changes Victoria's workers' compensation scheme, including letting self-insuring employers use surety bonds instead of bank guarantees. It also updates the powers of workplace health and safety representatives and authorised representatives, including rules on coercion and misuse of information.27 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✓Education and Training Reform Amendment (Apprenticeships, Traineeships, Schools and Other Matters) Bill 2026Strengthens the regulation of apprenticeships and traineeships and protections for apprentices, following the government's Apprenticeships Taskforce. It also tightens the scheme that lets people teach with permission while not fully registered, and strengthens the orders that protect school staff and students from harm.27 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✓Workplace Protection Orders Bill 2026Lets retail businesses, some train, tram and bus operators, and unions ask a court to bar a person aged 14 or over from a workplace where they have been violent, abusive or threatening to staff and are likely to do it again. Breaching an order carries up to two years' jail, a fine of about $50,000, or both.13 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✓Local Jobs First Amendment Bill 2025Strengthens enforcement of the local-content and jobs commitments suppliers make on government projects: the Local Jobs First Commissioner gets new investigation, reporting and site-inspection powers, and suppliers who fall short can be deprioritised for future contracts.31 Jul 2025 ↗
- ✓Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023Narrows WorkCover eligibility for mental injury to significant, diagnosed injuries predominantly caused by work, excludes claims for stress or burnout from ordinary work events, and requires more than 20 per cent permanent impairment to keep weekly payments beyond 130 weeks.16 Nov 2023 ↗
Abortion & reproductive policy official record
Voted YES on the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2015 (Assembly division, 12 November 2015; AYES 69, NOES 13). He did not speak on the bill, and has no recorded statement on abortion law itself. A March 2022 parliamentary tribute in which he recalled meeting an advocate 'when she was fighting for the decriminalisation of abortion' is praise for that advocate rather than a statement of his own position.
Voluntary assisted dying official record
Supported voluntary assisted dying at every recorded stage. In the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 second-reading debate on 18 October 2017 he said 'Pain can be managed in almost any instance; suffering cannot' and 'I place on record that I will be supporting the legislation,' describing the bill as more conservative and comprehensive than comparable overseas laws, with 'many safeguards against coercion, undue haste and the exploitation of the mentally ill or vulnerable.' He voted YES when the bill passed the Assembly 47-37 on 20 October 2017. He voted YES again on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Amendment Bill 2025 at second reading (28 October 2025; AYES 67, NOES 16) and third reading (29 October 2025; AYES 67, NOES 14); no speech by him on the 2025 bill has been found.
- How Victorian MPs voted on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017
- Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Victoria)
- Victorian Legislative Assembly Hansard, 18 October 2017 — Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 second reading (pp. 3246–3248)
- Votes and Proceedings Nos 147-149 (28, 29 and 30 October 2025) - VAD Amendment Bill divisions
Votes on record · 2
- ✓Voluntary Assisted Dying Amendment Bill 2025Lets doctors and nurse practitioners raise voluntary assisted dying with patients, requires objecting practitioners to give minimum information, sets a single 12-month prognosis for all applicants, shortens the minimum wait between first and final requests from 9 to 5 days, and eases residency rules. It bars practitioners who are family members or beneficiaries from taking part.28 Oct 2025 ↗29 Oct 2025 ↗
Gender & LGBTQ+ policy official record
A consistent supporter of LGBTIQ+ equality by vote and by speech. He voted YES on the Adoption Amendment (Adoption by Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2015 (Assembly division, 22 October 2015) and YES on both divisions on the Justice Legislation Amendment (Anti-vilification and Social Cohesion) Bill 2024 (20 February 2025; AYES 50, NOES 25). His fullest statement came on an Equality motion on 15 May 2025, prompted by attacks on public library inclusion policies: he said libraries 'are for everyone, no matter who you are ... and no matter what your sexual orientation,' defended drag story time, asked 'What is wrong with celebrating diversity,' and warned that letting 'the hard right run, divide and do any more of the Trumpism' would produce 'more division, more social isolation and more harm.' As Minister for Employment he said 'LGBTIQ+ people in our community face higher levels of discrimination than other Victorians.' The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020 passed the Assembly without a division, so no individual vote by him is on record for that bill.
- Votes and Proceedings Nos 45-47 (20, 21 and 22 October 2015) - same-sex adoption division
- Votes and Proceedings Nos 109-111 (18, 19 and 20 February 2025) - anti-vilification divisions
- Victorian Legislative Assembly Hansard, 2025-05-15 - motion on equality (archived copy)
- Improving Employment Outcomes For LGBTIQ+ Victorians
- Votes and Proceedings Nos 86-88 (8, 9 and 10 December 2020) - conversion practices bill passed without division
Votes on record · 1
- ✓Justice Legislation Amendment (Anti-vilification and Social Cohesion) Bill 2024Extends vilification protections beyond race and religion to disability, sex, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity and personal association. Serious vilification offences move into the Crimes Act. Civil protections move into the Equal Opportunity Act and cover public conduct 'likely to' incite hatred, serious contempt, revulsion or severe ridicule. The civil exceptions are kept, with amendment.20 Feb 2025 ↗
Religious freedom recorded votes
Votes on record · 2
- ✓Justice Legislation Amendment (Police and Other Matters) Bill 2025Lets police direct people to remove face coverings at protests (with a fine for refusing), creates offences for locking on at a public protest and for publicly displaying symbols of terrorist organisations, and replaces the offence of disturbing religious worship with modernised offences. It also widens police weapons search powers and adds offences for new weapons such as 3D-printed guns.20 Nov 2025 ↗
- ✓Justice Legislation Amendment (Anti-vilification and Social Cohesion) Bill 2024Extends vilification protections beyond race and religion to disability, sex, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity and personal association. Serious vilification offences move into the Crimes Act. Civil protections move into the Equal Opportunity Act and cover public conduct 'likely to' incite hatred, serious contempt, revulsion or severe ridicule. The civil exceptions are kept, with amendment.20 Feb 2025 ↗
Freedom of speech recorded votes
Votes on record · 4
- –Crimes Amendment Bill 2026Removes the need for the Director of Public Prosecutions to consent before police charge someone with serious vilification, meaning inciting hatred or threatening harm because of a protected attribute, except where the accused is under 18. It also means only police and the DPP, not private citizens, can bring these prosecutions.3 Mar 2026 ↗
- ✓Justice Legislation Amendment (Police and Other Matters) Bill 2025Lets police direct people to remove face coverings at protests (with a fine for refusing), creates offences for locking on at a public protest and for publicly displaying symbols of terrorist organisations, and replaces the offence of disturbing religious worship with modernised offences. It also widens police weapons search powers and adds offences for new weapons such as 3D-printed guns.20 Nov 2025 ↗
- ✓Crimes Amendment (Performance Crime) Bill 2025Creates a new offence of 'performance crime' for people who commit serious crimes and then publish content, mainly on social media, that advertises or draws attention to the offending, on top of the penalty for the crime itself.31 Jul 2025 ↗
- ✓Justice Legislation Amendment (Anti-vilification and Social Cohesion) Bill 2024Extends vilification protections beyond race and religion to disability, sex, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity and personal association. Serious vilification offences move into the Crimes Act. Civil protections move into the Equal Opportunity Act and cover public conduct 'likely to' incite hatred, serious contempt, revulsion or severe ridicule. The civil exceptions are kept, with amendment.20 Feb 2025 ↗
Drugs & law and order official record
Voted YES on the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Pill Testing) Bill 2024 (Assembly division, 17 October 2024; AYES 51, NOES 22) and as Acting Premier said 'No drug is truly ever safe, but the evidence is clear - pill testing saves lives and reduces harm.' On weapons he said 'Our first duty is to keep the community safe, and there will be zero-tolerance for illegal machetes on our streets.' In question time on 6 March 2025 he said young people 'wearing ankle bracelets or GPS monitoring devices are not suitable to be in the mainstream education setting,' calling the decision 'a commonsense call.' His youth-crime framing has been prevention-first since 2020, from a plan to 'prevent crime, reduce reoffending' to 'Keeping children engaged in school is the best tool against youth crime.' As Premier he said his first call was to the Chief Commissioner to tell him police would have 'every resource that he needs,' and his first bill created Workplace Protection Orders: 'Retail and transport workers keep Victoria running and they must be safe at work.'
- Votes and Proceedings Nos 93-95 (15, 16 and 17 October 2024) - Pill Testing Bill division
- Pill Testing Continues To Save Lives Over Summer
- 1300 Weapons In Machete Bins And Off Our Streets
- Victorian Legislative Assembly Hansard, 2025-03-06 - question time - youth justice system
- Labor Has Zero Tolerance For Violence Against Workers
Votes on record · 20
- ✓Associations Incorporation Reform Amendment Bill 2026Stops groups listed under Commonwealth law as terrorist organisations or prohibited hate groups from being incorporated associations, and lets the Registrar refuse registration in the public interest. It also excludes associations with industrial relations purposes, which the minister said belong under industrial relations law.27 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✓Workplace Protection Orders Bill 2026Lets retail businesses, some train, tram and bus operators, and unions ask a court to bar a person aged 14 or over from a workplace where they have been violent, abusive or threatening to staff and are likely to do it again. Breaching an order carries up to two years' jail, a fine of about $50,000, or both.13 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✓Crimes Amendment (Recruitment of Children for Criminal Activity) Bill 2026Creates a new offence, carrying up to life imprisonment, for an adult who recruits a child to commit a crime with a maximum penalty of 15 years or more, such as murder, carjacking, armed robbery or arson. It also extends the existing recruitment offence to adults who are reckless about whether the person is a child.13 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✓Corrections Amendment Bill 2026Allows a prisoner's right to at least an hour a day in the open air to be limited when providing it is not reasonably practicable for operational reasons such as prison security or safety. It also stops the State paying compensation for limits before the change, responding to a 2026 Supreme Court ruling.30 Jul 2026 ↗
- –Crimes Amendment Bill 2026Removes the need for the Director of Public Prosecutions to consent before police charge someone with serious vilification, meaning inciting hatred or threatening harm because of a protected attribute, except where the accused is under 18. It also means only police and the DPP, not private citizens, can bring these prosecutions.3 Mar 2026 ↗
- ✓Justice Legislation Further Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill 2025A package of courts and justice changes. It lets lower courts and VCAT review suppression orders made before 2013, streamlines coroners' procedures and death registration, changes fines and tolling laws, broadens the offence of bestiality and bans possessing or sharing animal-abuse material, and extends the County Court's Drug and Alcohol Treatment Court.5 Feb 2026 ↗
- ✓Justice Legislation Amendment (Community Safety) Bill 2025Lets children aged 14 and over who commit specified violent crimes face adult sentences in adult courts, raises the maximum penalty for aggravated home invasion and aggravated carjacking to life, creates a new knife crime offence, and removes the rule that jail is a last resort for children.2 Dec 2025 ↗
- ✓Justice Legislation Amendment (Police and Other Matters) Bill 2025Lets police direct people to remove face coverings at protests (with a fine for refusing), creates offences for locking on at a public protest and for publicly displaying symbols of terrorist organisations, and replaces the offence of disturbing religious worship with modernised offences. It also widens police weapons search powers and adds offences for new weapons such as 3D-printed guns.20 Nov 2025 ↗
- ✓Bail Further Amendment Bill 2025Adds a new, stricter 'high degree of probability' bail test for people accused of specified repeat serious offences committed on bail, and moves people accused of an indictable offence while already on bail for one to the reverse-onus 'compelling reasons' test. It also lists pregnancy and caring responsibilities as circumstances to consider, and bars electronic monitoring as a bail condition unless provided by a prescribed body.14 Aug 2025 ↗
- ✓Crimes Amendment (Performance Crime) Bill 2025Creates a new offence of 'performance crime' for people who commit serious crimes and then publish content, mainly on social media, that advertises or draws attention to the offending, on top of the penalty for the crime itself.31 Jul 2025 ↗
- ✓Bail Amendment (Tough Bail) Bill 2025Makes community safety the overriding consideration in every bail decision, brings back the offences of committing an indictable offence on bail and breaching a bail condition, and puts people accused of armed robbery, aggravated burglary, home invasion and carjacking under the toughest bail test on a first offence.18 Mar 2025 ↗
- ✓Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Pill Testing) Bill 2024Allows a drug-checking ('pill testing') trial, with mobile services at events such as music festivals and a fixed site, under permits that exempt the service and its users from certain drug offences. It also allows automated machines to dispense the overdose-reversal drug naloxone around the clock.17 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓State Civil Liability (Police Informants) Bill 2024Extinguishes legal claims against the State arising from information Nicola Gobbo or Joseph Acquaro gave Victoria Police as informants, to limit the State's financial liability. The minister made a declaration overriding the Charter of Human Rights because the bill may limit the property rights of people with existing claims.14 Aug 2024 ↗
- ✓Youth Justice Bill 2024Replaces Victoria's youth justice law with a new Youth Justice Act, raises the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 with no exceptions, lets police take a 10- or 11-year-old to a suitable person or a health or welfare agency, changes bail to help young people keep to their conditions, and strengthens the Youth Parole Board's power to transfer young people out of youth detention.1 Aug 2024 ↗
- ✓Special Investigator Repeal Bill 2023Abolishes the Office of the Special Investigator, created after the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants, after the Special Investigator reported its investigations were unlikely to lead to charges. Its records go to the Public Record Office, and IBAC again receives public interest disclosures about police.19 Oct 2023 ↗
- ✓Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Medically Supervised Injecting Centre) Bill 2023Makes the North Richmond medically supervised injecting room an ongoing service rather than a trial, and lets its licence be extended, transferred or reissued to another provider so the service can continue.23 Mar 2023 ↗
- ✓Human Source Management Bill 2023Creates the first law in Australia governing how police register, use and manage informants, following the Royal Commission into Victoria Police's use of the barrister Nicola Gobbo as an informant. It sets stricter rules for vulnerable sources and people with access to privileged information, and external oversight.23 Feb 2023 ↗
Gambling & gaming reform official record
Has voted in eleven gambling divisions in the Legislative Assembly since 2017, consistently supporting government gambling bills and opposing opposition attempts to delay them. He voted aye on the Gambling Regulation Amendment (Gaming Machine Arrangements) Bill 2017 and the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Repeal and Advisory Councils Bill 2024 (which abolished the Foundation), the Gambling Legislation Amendment (Pre-Commitment and Carded Play) Bill 2024 at both the reasoned amendment and second reading on 20 March 2025, the Gambling Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, and the Casino and Gambling Legislation Amendment Bill 2025. His two 'no' votes were on opposition motions to adjourn debate, rather than on the substance of any bill: the December 2017 motion was on the Gambling Legislation Amendment Bill 2017, a separate bill from the Gaming Machine Arrangements Bill, and the September 2025 motion was on the Casino and Gambling Legislation Amendment Bill 2025. The Liquor and Gambling Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 passed both houses without any division on its substance; the only division associated with it was procedural. He has made no recorded speech setting out a gambling policy view. Voted for the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Repeal and Advisory Councils Bill 2024, which abolished the Foundation (Legislative Assembly, second and third reading, 30 May 2024; Ayes 49, Noes 28). Voted for the Gambling Legislation Amendment (Pre-commitment and Carded Play) Bill 2024 (Legislative Assembly, second and third reading, 20 March 2025; Ayes 53, Noes 25). Voted for the second reading of the Gambling Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 (Legislative Assembly, 20 May 2025; Ayes 51, Noes 25). Voted for the second reading of the Casino and Gambling Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 (Legislative Assembly, 11 September 2025; Ayes 73, Noes 3).
- Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings - gambling divisions, 2017 to 2025
- Hansard, Legislative Assembly, 2024-05-30
- Hansard, Legislative Assembly, 2025-03-20
- Hansard, Legislative Assembly, 2025-05-20
- Hansard, Legislative Assembly, 2025-09-11
Votes on record · 4
- ✓Casino and Gambling Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Gives the casino regulator new disciplinary powers over Crown Melbourne's corporate associates and over non-compliance with its transformation plan, requires cashless gaming wallets to link to the patron's own bank account, allows future bans on automatic top-ups, and gives club venues more flexibility in the poker machine entitlements market.11 Sep 2025 ↗
- ✓Gambling Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Changes how the next gaming machine monitoring licence and public lottery licence can be set and priced, lets winnings always be paid by electronic transfer instead of cheque, and requires the Melbourne casino to issue an exclusion order when a person asks to be barred.20 May 2025 ↗
- ✓Gambling Legislation Amendment (Pre-commitment and Carded Play) Bill 2024Creates the framework for mandatory carded play and pre-commitment on poker machines in hotels, clubs and the casino, requires new machines approved after 1 December 2025 to take at least three seconds per game (now 2.14), and bars venues paying out $2000 or more in credits without checking the player's identity.20 Mar 2025 ↗
- ✓Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation Repeal and Advisory Councils Bill 2024Abolishes the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation and moves its gambling harm prevention and support services into government, with a public health approach, and dissolves the Responsible Gambling Ministerial Advisory Council and the Liquor Control Advisory Council.30 May 2024 ↗
Hunting (duck & native birds) recorded votes
Votes on record · 2
- ✓Outdoor Recreation Victoria Bill 2026Merges the regulators for game hunting and for fishing into a new body, Outdoor Recreation Victoria. It keeps their regulatory roles and also takes on promoting outdoor recreation and access to public land.4 Jun 2026 ↗
- –Parks and Public Land Legislation Amendment (Central West and Other Matters) Bill 2025Creates the Mount Buangor, Pyrenees and Wombat-Lerderderg national parks, the Cobaw and Hepburn conservation parks and Mirboo North Conservation Park, and adds Wellsford Forest to Bendigo Regional Park. It also allows seasonal recreational deer hunting by stalking in parts of the three new national parks and in Errinundra and Snowy River national parks.16 Oct 2025 ↗
Native forest logging official record
Voted aye on 30 May 2024 on an amendment moved during the Legislative Assembly's consideration of the Sustainable Forests (Timber) Repeal Bill 2024, which repealed the Sustainable Forests (Timber) Act 2004 following the cessation of native forest logging on 1 January 2024. The question was 'That the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question' (Legislative Assembly, 30 May 2024; Ayes 53, Noes 24; agreed to): an aye vote kept the words the amendment proposed to omit. It was a vote on the amendment, not on the bill.
First Nations & treaty official record
Spoke in support of the Statewide Treaty Bill 2025 at its second reading on 14 October 2025 as Deputy Premier, calling it 'a landmark day and a landmark occasion' and placing Labor as 'the party of Mabo; the party of native title.' He said treaty 'does ensure First Peoples communities are at the heart of decision-making that affects their lives,' acknowledged '65,000 continuous years of wisdom' and that Aboriginal people were Victoria's 'first educators,' and defended the new body Gellung Warl against what he called 'misinterpretations,' reading into Hansard the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation's statement approving use of Gunaikurnai language for its name. The bill passed the Assembly 54-27 on 16 October 2025, but he did not vote in that division: he appears in neither the ayes nor the noes in the Votes and Proceedings. He was in the House that week, voting in the ayes on the government business program motion of 14 October 2025 that timetabled the bill for completion by 5.00 pm on 16 October.
- Statewide Treaty Bill 2025 second reading, Legislative Assembly, 14 October 2025
- Statewide Treaty Bill passed by Parliament
- Votes and Proceedings Nos 144-146 (14-16 October 2025) - Statewide Treaty Bill division
Votes on record · 2
- –Statewide Treaty Bill 2025Makes the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria a permanent representative body, Gellung Warl, which must be told of new laws, can meet cabinet, is consulted by departments and Victoria Police on laws aimed at First Peoples, and can make rules applying to First Peoples organisations. It also creates an accountability office and an ongoing truth-telling body.16 Oct 2025 ↗
- ✓Inquiries Amendment (Yoorrook Justice Commission Records and Other Matters) Bill 2024Lets the Yoorrook Justice Commission, Victoria's First Peoples truth-telling inquiry, make orders closing or restricting access to records of First Peoples' evidence for 99 years after it ends. Freedom of information does not apply to those records for that period, and the Keeper of Public Records must follow the orders.28 Nov 2024 ↗
Integrity & anti-corruption official record
Made a royal commission into the construction sector his first announced act as Premier, saying 'my first action as Premier will be to call a Royal Commission into the Construction Sector' and 'In my Government, integrity will not be optional,' pledging zero tolerance for those who misuse their positions in business, politics or the union movement. He will also 'immediately establish a Special Prosecutor' to work in parallel with the commission and strengthen IBAC with follow-the-money powers: 'Not in 2027, now.' He confirmed both in the Assembly the same day, and the next day said the royal commission 'will have exhaustive terms of reference'; he has said he wants 'no stone unturned, whether it is top-tier contractors, subcontractors, labour hire, government, unions.' He separately announced the Electoral Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2026 to abolish group voting tickets, saying 'Fair elections are the bedrock of democracy.' As Education Minister he ordered a 'root-and-branch review' of the VCAA. As at 29 July 2026 no terms of reference, commissioner or timetable had been published.
- Statement from the Premier
- Victorian Legislative Assembly Hansard, 2026-07-28 — Questions without notice: construction industry
- Victorian Legislative Assembly Hansard, 2026-07-29 — Questions without notice: construction industry
- Victorian politics live blog: Premier Ben Carroll on royal commission terms of reference
- Making Victoria's Elections Fairer And More Transparent
- Rebuilding The VCAA To Give Students Full Confidence
Votes on record · 8
- ✓Local Government Legislation Amendment (Stronger Communities) Bill 2026Requires every council to follow standard governance rules and to use an independently chaired committee on its chief executive's employment, and tightens councillors' conflict-of-interest rules. It also sets up a Local Government Fair Jobs Code for council staff and lets the City of Melbourne widen the gap between its lowest and highest differential rates.27 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✓Electoral Further Amendment Bill 2026Restores rules on political money for Victorian elections after the High Court struck down the previous scheme in April 2026. It sets donation caps and disclosure rules, bans foreign donations, limits anonymous donations, provides State funding, and sets penalties for breaches.3 Jun 2026 ↗
- ✓State Civil Liability (Police Informants) Bill 2024Extinguishes legal claims against the State arising from information Nicola Gobbo or Joseph Acquaro gave Victoria Police as informants, to limit the State's financial liability. The minister made a declaration overriding the Charter of Human Rights because the bill may limit the property rights of people with existing claims.14 Aug 2024 ↗
- ✓Local Government Amendment (Governance and Integrity) Bill 2024Requires all councillors to do annual training and follow a Model Councillor Code of Conduct, lengthens misconduct suspensions from one to three months, and lets the Local Government Minister suspend a councillor for up to 12 months after adverse findings by a monitor or Commission of Inquiry, or recommend disqualification for eight years.30 May 2024 ↗
- ✓Special Investigator Repeal Bill 2023Abolishes the Office of the Special Investigator, created after the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants, after the Special Investigator reported its investigations were unlikely to lead to charges. Its records go to the Public Record Office, and IBAC again receives public interest disclosures about police.19 Oct 2023 ↗
- ✓Human Source Management Bill 2023Creates the first law in Australia governing how police register, use and manage informants, following the Royal Commission into Victoria Police's use of the barrister Nicola Gobbo as an informant. It sets stricter rules for vulnerable sources and people with access to privileged information, and external oversight.23 Feb 2023 ↗
Housing & planning recorded votes
Votes on record · 9
- ✓Building and Plumbing Administration and Enforcement Bill 2026Moves the regulation of building and plumbing into its own Act, run by the Building and Plumbing Commission, the single regulator that took over from the Victorian Building Authority in 2025, and strengthens its powers to enforce building laws.2 Apr 2026 ↗
- ✓Planning Amendment (Better Decisions Made Faster) Bill 2025Overhauls Victoria's planning law so that planning scheme amendments and permit applications follow one of three assessment pathways matched to their complexity and risk, with set steps and timeframes, as part of the government's push to build more homes faster.14 Nov 2025 ↗
- ✓Building Legislation Amendment (Buyer Protections) Bill 2025Moves domestic building insurance to the Victorian Building Authority and makes it 'first-resort' cover for homes of up to three storeys, creates a developer bond for taller apartment buildings, restricts the sale or occupation of apartments with unrectified serious defects, and lets the regulator order defective building work to be fixed.3 Apr 2025 ↗
- ✓Transport Infrastructure and Planning Legislation Amendment Bill 2024Gives the government more powers to plan and deliver Priority Precincts, such as Arden, Fishermans Bend and Sunshine, and major transport projects including the Suburban Rail Loop and North East Link: the Transport Secretary can prepare precinct development and contract for land early, and works can be delivered as a program.31 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓Building Legislation Amendment and Other Matters Bill 2024Lets regulations restrict gas connections and gas appliances in prescribed classes of new buildings, under the government's Gas Substitution Roadmap. It also clarifies building surveyors' power to issue building orders and requires architects to declare they are fit and proper people each year.17 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓Short Stay Levy Bill 2024Puts a levy on bookings of short-stay accommodation such as Airbnb-style rentals from 1 January 2025, collected by the State Revenue Office, with the money going to Homes Victoria for social and affordable housing and a quarter of it to regional Victoria. It also lets owners corporations regulate short stays in apartment buildings.12 Sep 2024 ↗
- ✓State Taxation Acts and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2023Extends the vacant residential land tax, on homes left empty more than six months a year, from inner and middle Melbourne to all of Victoria from 2025, and to unimproved residential land in established parts of Melbourne from 2026. It also makes other duties, land tax and valuation changes.5 Oct 2023 ↗19 Oct 2023 ↗
Health recorded votes
Votes on record · 3
- ✓Agriculture and Food Safety Legislation Amendment Bill 2024Updates the laws behind Victoria's food safety regulators, including PrimeSafe for meat and seafood and Dairy Food Safety Victoria. It lets them share information more easily, adds a fit-and-proper-person test for seafood licences, and tightens the rules on raw milk.31 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Pill Testing) Bill 2024Allows a drug-checking ('pill testing') trial, with mobile services at events such as music festivals and a fixed site, under permits that exempt the service and its users from certain drug offences. It also allows automated machines to dispense the overdose-reversal drug naloxone around the clock.17 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Medically Supervised Injecting Centre) Bill 2023Makes the North Richmond medically supervised injecting room an ongoing service rather than a trial, and lets its licence be extended, transferred or reissued to another provider so the service can continue.23 Mar 2023 ↗
Education official record
Premier of Victoria since 28 July 2026; previously Deputy Premier and Minister for Education. He championed and extended Victoria's classroom mobile-phone ban - which began in public schools in 2020 - introducing legislation to extend it (plus wearable devices such as smartwatches and earbuds) to all Victorian schools including non-government schools from January 2027, making Victoria the first state to legislate restrictions on wearable technology. He said: 'The evidence shows it worked and now we're going further, so every Victorian student, in every Victorian school, can put their phone away and focus on learning.' He frames education support as cost-of-living relief, launching the $400 School Saving Bonus because 'no parent or carer wants to think about their child missing out on the essentials like school uniforms and textbooks, camps, excursions and school sports,' and telling parliament that 'from free kinder to free TAFE to targeted financial support from P-12, we know this support can change a young life forever.' In the 2026 teachers' pay dispute he defended the government's offer as making Victorian teachers and support staff the best paid in the country with the best conditions; members narrowly voted it down (51.18 per cent against) and about 20,000 staff struck and marched through Melbourne in July 2026.
- No More Phones In Non Government Schools
- Ben Carroll | Premier
- $400 School Saving Bonus Is Here
- Ministers statements: education funding, Legislative Assembly, 19 February 2025
- Teachers to rally in droves after voting down pay offer
Votes on record · 1
- ✓Education and Training Reform Amendment (Apprenticeships, Traineeships, Schools and Other Matters) Bill 2026Strengthens the regulation of apprenticeships and traineeships and protections for apprentices, following the government's Apprenticeships Taskforce. It also tightens the scheme that lets people teach with permission while not fully registered, and strengthens the orders that protect school staff and students from harm.27 Aug 2026 ↗
Transport & infrastructure official record
On the Suburban Rail Loop his position as Premier is qualified rather than a re-endorsement. Asked on his first day whether he would confirm the project, he said 'I have been sworn in on day one and I will be addressing all these matters through a cabinet process' and that 'like all of our projects, we are accountable through the budget process.' The following day, asked to rule out cancelling the SRL, he said 'we will not be cancelling contracts. That era is over,' but has not re-committed on the project's cost, scope or staging. He names airport rail as his own priority: 'Airport rail will electrify the north-west. It is a game changer.' On the Commonwealth Games withdrawal he said only 'I am going to be a premier that does not break contracts.' As Minister for Public Transport (2020-2023) he oversaw level crossing removals, and as Minister for Roads and Road Safety (2020-2022) delivered safer-streets packages framed around driving down road trauma.
- Victorian Legislative Assembly Hansard, 2026-07-28 — Questions without notice: Suburban Rail Loop
- Victorian Legislative Assembly Hansard, 2026-07-28 — Questions without notice: Suburban Rail Loop (continued)
- Victorian Legislative Assembly Hansard, 2026-07-29 — Questions without notice: Suburban Rail Loop
- Victorian politics live blog: Premier Ben Carroll on the Suburban Rail Loop and airport rail
- Lilydale Line Officially Level Crossing Free
- New Package Delivers Safer Streets Across Victoria
Votes on record · 3
- ✓State Taxation Further Amendment Bill 2025Raises the congestion levy on parking spaces in the central Melbourne area to $3,030 a space from 2026, in line with Sydney's CBD, with new exemptions and residential spaces excluded. It also adds vacant residential land tax exemptions, including for homes under construction, and changes how foreign-purchaser duty applies to New Zealand citizens.30 Oct 2025 ↗
- ✓Transport Infrastructure and Planning Legislation Amendment Bill 2024Gives the government more powers to plan and deliver Priority Precincts, such as Arden, Fishermans Bend and Sunshine, and major transport projects including the Suburban Rail Loop and North East Link: the Transport Secretary can prepare precinct development and contract for land early, and works can be delivered as a program.31 Oct 2024 ↗
Energy official record
Has spoken for the revived State Electricity Commission from a jobs and training angle rather than as energy minister. Backing the SEC's renewable build-out, he said 'The SEC's plans for more renewables means thousands of jobs for Victorians - and at least 10 per cent of those jobs will be apprenticeships and traineeships, building up our young energy workforce,' pointing to a target of 59,000 jobs across manufacturing, solar, wind and emerging industries, about 6,000 of them traineeships and apprenticeships. The SEC is prohibited from owning, operating or investing in fossil fuel facilities. No statement by him has been found on gas policy, transmission siting or the renewable energy zones.
- Bringing Back Public Power With Leading Energy Experts
- The SEC Is Back: Accelerating Victoria's Renewable Future
Votes on record · 11
- ✓National Electricity (Victoria) Amendment (VicGrid Stage 2 Reform) Bill 2025Turns VicGrid into a statutory corporation that plans Victoria's electricity transmission network for the move to net zero, gives authorised officers power to enter land for electricity works with infringement notices, and sets up payments to landholders, communities and Traditional Owners affected by new transmission, generation and storage.31 Jul 2025 ↗
- ✓Victorian Energy Efficiency Target Amendment (Energy Upgrades for the Future) Bill 2025Extends the Victorian Energy Upgrades program, which discounts energy-efficient products and services, from 2030 to 2045 to match the State's net zero target, lets its 2026 and 2027 targets be set by regulation, and gives its regulator stronger compliance and enforcement powers, including civil penalties.3 Apr 2025 ↗
- ✓Energy and Land Legislation Amendment (Energy Safety) Bill 2025Gives Energy Safe Victoria, the energy safety regulator, stronger powers: to suspend electrical contractors' registrations and workers' licences in the public interest, issue prohibition and improvement notices, and seek court injunctions. It also gives more certainty for complex projects on unreserved Crown land.20 Feb 2025 ↗
- ✓Building Legislation Amendment and Other Matters Bill 2024Lets regulations restrict gas connections and gas appliances in prescribed classes of new buildings, under the government's Gas Substitution Roadmap. It also clarifies building surveyors' power to issue building orders and requires architects to declare they are fit and proper people each year.17 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment Bill 2024Allows the holder of an offshore petroleum production licence to store existing gas in an offshore reservoir for use in peak demand, such as the Golden Beach storage project, without authorising new gas production or affecting the bans on fracking and unconventional gas.17 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓National Electricity (Victoria) Amendment (VicGrid) Bill 2024Gives VicGrid, the State's transmission planner, the job of planning the electricity transmission needed for new renewable energy zones, through a published Victorian Transmission Plan guided by a new planning objective, and provides for payments to eligible landholders hosting transmission.21 Mar 2024 ↗
- ✓State Electricity Commission Amendment Bill 2023Abolishes the old State Electricity Commission of Victoria, transferring its few remaining assets and liabilities to the State, so the name can pass to the new SEC, a government-owned renewable energy company.7 Mar 2024 ↗
- ✓Constitution Amendment (SEC) Bill 2023 and State Electricity Commission Amendment Bill 2023One vote on both SEC bills: writing the new State Electricity Commission, a government-owned renewable energy company, into Victoria's Constitution with a required State controlling interest, and abolishing the old SEC so the new company can use its name.5 Mar 2024 ↗
Environment & water recorded votes
Votes on record · 2
- –Parks and Public Land Legislation Amendment (Central West and Other Matters) Bill 2025Creates the Mount Buangor, Pyrenees and Wombat-Lerderderg national parks, the Cobaw and Hepburn conservation parks and Mirboo North Conservation Park, and adds Wellsford Forest to Bendigo Regional Park. It also allows seasonal recreational deer hunting by stalking in parts of the three new national parks and in Errinundra and Snowy River national parks.16 Oct 2025 ↗
- ✓Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Amendment Bill 2023Replaces the requirement for each mine or quarry to have an approved 'work plan' with a legal duty on operators to eliminate or minimise risks of harm, and changes the approvals process, starting with planning permission, with earlier chances for the public to comment on proposals.3 Aug 2023 ↗
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