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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 ↗
Voluntary assisted dying recorded votes
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 recorded votes
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 recorded votes
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 recorded votes
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 recorded votes
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 recorded votes
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 recorded votes
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 recorded votes
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 recorded votes
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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Record last updated 2026-10-27.