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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.14 Aug 2025 ↗
Economy & tax recorded votes
Votes on record · 16
- ✓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.18 Nov 2025 ↗
- ✓Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Requires fuel retailers to lock in their maximum price for 24 hours, making it an offence to sell above it, and sets up a voluntary Portable Rental Bond Scheme so renters can move their bond between rental properties, with the State as guarantor.14 Nov 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.12 Aug 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.15 May 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.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.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.17 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓Financial Management Amendment (Gender Responsive Budgeting) Bill 2024Makes it a legal requirement for the Victorian Government to consider the gender impact of its budget, how money is raised and spent, a practice it had followed administratively since 2021.30 May 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.28 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.30 Nov 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.20 Jun 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-19.20 Jun 2023 ↗
- ✓Gambling Taxation Bill 2023Moves Crown Melbourne's casino taxes out of its management agreement and into a new gambling tax law administered by the State Revenue Office, as the Royal Commission into the casino recommended, and brings several other gambling taxes under the same Act.30 May 2023 ↗
Workplace & industrial relations recorded votes
Votes on record · 7
- ✓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.8 Sep 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.27 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.14 Aug 2025 ↗
- ✗Government Construction Projects Integrity Bill 2024A Liberal and Nationals bill, moved in the Legislative Council by Evan Mulholland, requiring everyone on a government-funded major construction contract to ensure employees and contractors have no organised-crime convictions or pending charges, with checks through Victoria Police, and barring unions from issuing worksite entry permits to people linked to organised crime.28 Aug 2024 ↗
- ✓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.5 Mar 2024 ↗
Voluntary assisted dying news report
Voted on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 in the Victorian Legislative Assembly (conscience vote; the bill passed the Assembly 47-37 on 20 October 2017). Lizzie Blandthorn voted NO (against). [Blandthorn (then member for Pascoe Vale in the Assembly; now in the Council)]
- How Victorian MPs voted on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017
- Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Victoria)
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.12 Nov 2025 ↗14 Nov 2025 ↗
Gender & LGBTQ+ policy recorded votes
Votes on record · 4
- ✓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.1 Apr 2025 ↗
- ✓Financial Management Amendment (Gender Responsive Budgeting) Bill 2024Makes it a legal requirement for the Victorian Government to consider the gender impact of its budget, how money is raised and spent, a practice it had followed administratively since 2021.30 May 2024 ↗
- ✗Motion for an inquiry into medical affirmation treatment for gender dysphoric children and adolescentsWould have required the Legal and Social Issues Committee to inquire into, and report within 12 months on, medical affirmation treatment pathways for gender dysphoric children and adolescents in Victoria, including the diagnostic process, the asserted benefits, risks and outcomes, alternative pathways, and the legislation governing the rights of minors, parents and professionals. Negatived.18 Oct 2023 ↗
Religious freedom recorded votes
Votes on record · 4
- ✓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.2 Dec 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.1 Apr 2025 ↗
Freedom of speech recorded votes
Votes on record · 9
- ✓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.5 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.2 Dec 2025 ↗
- ✗Safer Protest with a Registration System and a Ban on Face Coverings Bill 2025A Liberal and Nationals bill, moved in the Legislative Council by David Davis, requiring protest organisers to register events with Victoria Police, banning face coverings at protests without a lawful excuse, restoring stronger police move-on powers, and letting courts ban repeat offenders from public places for up to 12 months.29 Oct 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.14 Aug 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.1 Apr 2025 ↗
- ✓Summary Offences Amendment (Nazi Salute Prohibition) Bill 2023Makes it an offence to perform the Nazi salute or other Nazi gestures, or display other Nazi symbols, in public, extending the 2022 ban on publicly displaying the Nazi Hakenkreuz (swastika).17 Oct 2023 ↗
Drugs & law and order recorded votes
Votes on record · 40
- ✓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.27 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.25 Aug 2026 ↗
- –Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2026Regulates how exit fees and rent increases work for residents of residential parks, updates the rules for motor car traders, and strengthens consumer-law enforcement. It also gives Victorian law enforcement powers to disrupt organised crime in illicit tobacco, in line with other states.14 Aug 2026 ↗
- –Firearms Amendment Bill 2026Adds a citizenship requirement for a firearms licence, met by Australian citizens and New Zealand citizens who are permanent residents, with an exemption for people who need a firearm to earn a living. It also raises penalties for firearms offences aimed at organised crime, including breaches of firearm prohibition orders. It sets no cap on how many firearms a licensee may hold.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.13 Aug 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.5 Mar 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.4 Dec 2025 ↗
- ✓Crimes Amendment (Retail, Fast Food, Hospitality and Transport Worker Harm) Bill 2025Creates new offences for assaulting, threatening or abusing customer-facing workers in retail, hospitality, fast food and passenger transport in connection with their work, and makes using a vehicle to damage a building to get in and commit a burglary (a ram raid) aggravated burglary.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.2 Dec 2025 ↗
- ✗Safer Protest with a Registration System and a Ban on Face Coverings Bill 2025A Liberal and Nationals bill, moved in the Legislative Council by David Davis, requiring protest organisers to register events with Victoria Police, banning face coverings at protests without a lawful excuse, restoring stronger police move-on powers, and letting courts ban repeat offenders from public places for up to 12 months.29 Oct 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.26 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.14 Aug 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.20 Mar 2025 ↗
- ✓Terrorism (Community Protection) and Control of Weapons Amendment Bill 2024Widens who can join the voluntary case management scheme for people at risk of radicalising towards violent extremism, and gives police more flexibility to declare designated areas where they can search people for weapons, with notices published online instead of in newspapers.18 Mar 2025 ↗
- ✓Tobacco Amendment (Tobacco Retailer and Wholesaler Licensing Scheme) Bill 2024Makes it illegal to sell tobacco by retail or wholesale without a licence. The regulator can refuse licences to people who are not fit and proper, impose conditions, and suspend or cancel licences. The bill also adds new illicit tobacco offences and tougher penalties, intended to help police combat organised crime.26 Nov 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.29 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓Criminal Organisations Control Amendment Bill 2024Widens police powers to issue unlawful association notices and makes a single association with a named person an offence, creates serious crime prevention orders, bans publicly displaying the insignia of prescribed organisations such as outlaw motorcycle gangs, and bars their members from Victorian Government worksites.15 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.12 Sep 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.15 Aug 2024 ↗
- –Confiscation Amendment (Unexplained Wealth) Bill 2024Adds a third way for the State to seize property under Victoria's unexplained wealth laws: a new unexplained wealth order, aimed at the unlawfully acquired wealth of organised crime, under which property is forfeited unless shown to be lawfully acquired.30 Jul 2024 ↗
- ✓Firearms and Control of Weapons (Machetes) Amendment Bill 2024Gives police new powers to find and serve a firearm prohibition order on a person, including a magistrate's warrant to search for someone avoiding service, with extra safeguards for children. It also makes clear that a machete is a knife and so a controlled weapon.21 Mar 2024 ↗
- ✗Bail Amendment (Indictable Offences Whilst on Bail) Bill 2024A Liberal and Nationals bill, moved in the Legislative Council by Evan Mulholland, to stop the repeal of the offence of committing an indictable offence while on bail that the Bail Amendment Act 2023 had passed but not yet brought into force, or to re-create it if already repealed.6 Mar 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.2 Nov 2023 ↗
- ✓Summary Offences Amendment (Nazi Salute Prohibition) Bill 2023Makes it an offence to perform the Nazi salute or other Nazi gestures, or display other Nazi symbols, in public, extending the 2022 ban on publicly displaying the Nazi Hakenkreuz (swastika).17 Oct 2023 ↗
- –Bail Amendment Bill 2023Narrows the tougher 'reverse-onus' bail tests to people accused of serious offences, repeals the offences of committing an indictable offence on bail and breaching a bail conduct condition, and bans remand for minor summary offences. People who are a terrorism risk still face the reverse-onus test.5 Oct 2023 ↗
- ✗Corrections Amendment (Parole) Bill 2023A Liberal and Nationals bill, moved in the Legislative Council by Matthew Bach, to stop the serial killer Paul Denyer being released on parole unless the parole board is satisfied he is in imminent danger of death or so incapacitated that he cannot harm anyone.21 Jun 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.4 May 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.2 May 2023 ↗
Gambling & gaming reform recorded votes
Votes on record · 7
- ✓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.17 Jun 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.27 May 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.20 Jun 2024 ↗
- ✓Gambling Taxation Bill 2023Moves Crown Melbourne's casino taxes out of its management agreement and into a new gambling tax law administered by the State Revenue Office, as the Royal Commission into the casino recommended, and brings several other gambling taxes under the same Act.30 May 2023 ↗
Hunting (duck & native birds) recorded votes
Votes on record · 6
- ✓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.18 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.18 Nov 2025 ↗
- ✓Motion on deer hunting in national parksNoted the scale of recreational deer hunting in Victoria (over 48,000 game licences held to hunt deer, around 140,000 deer killed a year) and its economic contribution, and called on the Government to open appropriate parts of national parks, at suitable times, to licensed recreational deer hunters.13 Nov 2024 ↗
- ✓Motion to establish a select committee on recreational native bird huntingEstablished a nine-member select committee to inquire into and report by 31 August 2023 on Victoria's recreational native bird hunting arrangements, including the annual hunting seasons, arrangements in other jurisdictions, their environmental sustainability and impact on amenity, and their social and economic impact.9 Mar 2023 ↗
Native forest logging recorded votes
Votes on record · 1
- ✓Sustainable Forests (Timber) Repeal Bill 2024Repeals the law that allowed large-scale commercial native timber harvesting in State forests, which ended on 1 January 2024, and abolishes VicForests, the State body that ran the harvest, transferring its property and liabilities to the Crown.20 Jun 2024 ↗
First Nations & treaty recorded votes
Votes on record · 6
- ✓Education and Training Reform Amendment Bill 2026Adds a Statement of Recognition of First Nations people to Victoria's main education law, with provisions supporting self-determination and the Treaty process. It also requires every school, government and non-government, to have a policy restricting students' phones and other personal devices during school hours.28 Jul 2026 ↗
- ✓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.28 Oct 2025 ↗30 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.18 Feb 2025 ↗
Nuclear & uranium recorded votes
Votes on record · 1
- ✗Nuclear Activities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill 2023A Libertarian Party bill, moved in the Legislative Council by David Limbrick, to repeal Victoria's 1983 law prohibiting nuclear activities, which would remove the state ban on nuclear power and related activities.15 Nov 2023 ↗
Integrity & anti-corruption recorded votes
Votes on record · 18
- ✓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.10 Sep 2026 ↗
- ✓Electoral Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2026Abolishes group voting tickets, the system that let parties lodge preference orders for above-the-line Legislative Council votes, and instead lets voters number several preferences above the line. It also makes other changes to the Electoral Act before the 2026 election.11 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.4 Jun 2026 ↗
- ✗Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Amendment (Follow the Money) Bill 2026A Liberal and Nationals bill, moved in the Legislative Council by Evan Mulholland, to give IBAC 'follow the money' powers. It defines 'associated entity' to cover contractors, subcontractors, agents, trustees, joint ventures and other third parties linked to publicly funded work, so investigators can trace public money through them.18 Mar 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.12 Sep 2024 ↗
- ✗Government Construction Projects Integrity Bill 2024A Liberal and Nationals bill, moved in the Legislative Council by Evan Mulholland, requiring everyone on a government-funded major construction contract to ensure employees and contractors have no organised-crime convictions or pending charges, with checks through Victoria Police, and barring unions from issuing worksite entry permits to people linked to organised crime.28 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.18 Jun 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.2 Nov 2023 ↗
- ✗Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Amendment (Facilitation of Timely Reporting) Bill 2022A Liberal and Nationals bill, moved in the Legislative Council by David Davis, to speed up the tabling of IBAC reports: courts are to decide related applications as quickly as the Act allows, and people facing adverse comment get three months to respond, after which IBAC can send its report to Parliament.16 Aug 2023 ↗
- ✗Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Amendment (Ending Political Corruption) Bill 2023A Greens bill, moved in the Legislative Council by Samantha Ratnam, to let IBAC investigate corrupt conduct by public officers that is not a criminal offence, such as serious breaches of MPs' and ministers' codes of conduct, pork-barrelling and non-competitive tenders or appointments, including conduct before the change.16 Aug 2023 ↗
- ✗Public Administration and Planning Legislation Amendment (Control of Lobbyists) Bill 2023A Liberal and Nationals bill, moved in the Legislative Council by David Davis, to put into law IBAC's Operation Clara recommendations: lobbyists could not be appointed to public boards whose work they had lobbied on, board directors could not lobby on matters related to their board, and prosecutions for summary offences under the Victorian Planning Authority Act could start up to three years after the offence.31 May 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.2 May 2023 ↗
Housing & planning recorded votes
Votes on record · 19
- –Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2026Regulates how exit fees and rent increases work for residents of residential parks, updates the rules for motor car traders, and strengthens consumer-law enforcement. It also gives Victorian law enforcement powers to disrupt organised crime in illicit tobacco, in line with other states.14 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✓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.12 May 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.9 Dec 2025 ↗
- ✓Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2025Requires fuel retailers to lock in their maximum price for 24 hours, making it an offence to sell above it, and sets up a voluntary Portable Rental Bond Scheme so renters can move their bond between rental properties, with the State as guarantor.14 Nov 2025 ↗
- ✓Domestic Building Contracts Amendment Bill 2025Strengthens protections in home building contracts after the Porter Davis Homes collapse: deposits and progress payments can be capped by regulation and must match work done, and cost escalation clauses are allowed only for contracts of $1 million or more, capped at 5 per cent.11 Sep 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.29 May 2025 ↗
- ✓Consumer and Planning Legislation Amendment (Housing Statement Reform) Bill 2024Extends the notice period for rent increases and notices to vacate from 60 to 90 days, tightens the review of rent increases, requires a rental property to meet minimum standards when it is advertised, standardises rental application forms and requires renters' personal information to be protected and destroyed.6 Mar 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.14 Nov 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.31 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.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.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.17 Oct 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.30 Nov 2023 ↗
Health recorded votes
Votes on record · 9
- ✓Health Safeguards for People Born with Variations in Sex Characteristics Bill 2025Sets legal safeguards, including informed-consent requirements, before non-urgent medical treatment to change the sex characteristics of people born with variations in sex characteristics (sometimes called intersex), particularly infants and young children. Urgent treatment to save a life or prevent serious harm can still go ahead without extra oversight.19 Feb 2026 ↗
- ✓Tobacco Amendment (Tobacco Retailer and Wholesaler Licensing Scheme) Bill 2024Makes it illegal to sell tobacco by retail or wholesale without a licence. The regulator can refuse licences to people who are not fit and proper, impose conditions, and suspend or cancel licences. The bill also adds new illicit tobacco offences and tougher penalties, intended to help police combat organised crime.26 Nov 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.29 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓Health Legislation Amendment (Regulatory Reform) Bill 2024Gives the Department of Health's regulator stronger, graduated compliance and enforcement powers across seven health laws, and transfers regulation of IVF and other assisted reproductive treatment, and the donor conception registers, from the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority to the Department, which abolishes the Authority.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.4 May 2023 ↗
- ✗Health Legislation Amendment (Information Sharing) Bill 2023Sets up a secure electronic system run by the Department of Health so public hospitals and health services can share patients' health information for their care, with new criminal offences for unauthorised access to or use of the information and a review after two years.9 Mar 2023 ↗
- ✓Health Legislation Amendment (Information Sharing) Bill 2023Sets up a secure electronic system run by the Department of Health so public hospitals and health services can share patients' health information for their care, with new criminal offences for unauthorised access to or use of the information and a review after two years.9 Mar 2023 ↗
Education recorded votes
Votes on record · 5
- ✓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.8 Sep 2026 ↗
- ✓Education and Training Reform Amendment Bill 2026Adds a Statement of Recognition of First Nations people to Victoria's main education law, with provisions supporting self-determination and the Treaty process. It also requires every school, government and non-government, to have a policy restricting students' phones and other personal devices during school hours.28 Jul 2026 ↗
- ✓Education and Training Reform Amendment Bill 2024Gives the schools regulator, the VRQA, power to issue notices to produce documents and notices to comply, raises the maximum penalties for running an unregistered school or boarding premises, and lets principals nominate others to arrange students' work experience and structured workplace learning.4 Feb 2025 ↗
- ✓Education and Training Reform Amendment (Land Powers) Bill 2023Extends the Minister's powers to buy and develop land, now used for schools, to early childhood education and care, so the government can build kindergartens and childcare for its free kinder and 'Pre-Prep' reforms.19 Oct 2023 ↗
Transport & infrastructure recorded votes
Votes on record · 4
- ✓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.18 Nov 2025 ↗
- ✓Roads and Ports Legislation Amendment (Road Safety and Other Matters) Bill 2025Gives police up to 24 months (from 12) to prosecute the summary offence of failing to stop and help after a crash, lets authorised Victoria Police employees issue some road safety infringements, regulates mooring service providers at commercial ports, and tightens who can apply for consent to do works on roads.29 Jul 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.14 Nov 2024 ↗
Energy recorded votes
Votes on record · 21
- ✓Energy and Resources Legislation Amendment (VEET Strategic Review and Other Matters) Bill 2026Updates the Victorian Energy Upgrades program, which discounts energy-efficient appliances and upgrades, so it can add new activities more easily and recognise benefits beyond cutting emissions, with reviews every five years until it ends in 2045. It also lets the government regulate energy tariffs and ban specified fees charged to customers.28 Aug 2026 ↗
- ✓Energy and Other Legislation Amendment (Resilience Reforms and Other Matters) Bill 2026Requires electricity distribution companies to prepare network resilience plans, accepted by Energy Safe Victoria, setting out how they will prepare for and respond to storms, fires and floods, and to take all reasonable steps to carry them out. Civil penalties apply if they do not.5 Mar 2026 ↗
- ✓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.28 Aug 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.13 May 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.13 May 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.31 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.29 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓Constitution Amendment (SEC) Bill 2023Writes the State Electricity Commission, the government-owned renewable energy company, into Victoria's Constitution: the State must keep a controlling interest, its objectives include supporting the transition to net zero, and changing these provisions needs a special majority of both Houses.12 Sep 2024 ↗
- ✓Constitution Amendment (SEC) Bill 2023Writes the State Electricity Commission, the government-owned renewable energy company, into Victoria's Constitution: the State must keep a controlling interest, its objectives include supporting the transition to net zero, and changing these provisions needs a special majority of both Houses.12 Sep 2024 ↗
- ✓Constitution Amendment (SEC) Bill 2023Writes the State Electricity Commission, the government-owned renewable energy company, into Victoria's Constitution: the State must keep a controlling interest, its objectives include supporting the transition to net zero, and changing these provisions needs a special majority of both Houses.12 Sep 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.2 May 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.19 Mar 2024 ↗
- –Climate Change and Energy Legislation Amendment (Renewable Energy and Storage Targets) Bill 2023Brings Victoria's net zero emissions target forward to 2045 in law, raises the 2030 renewable electricity target from 50 to 65 per cent and sets 95 per cent by 2035, sets energy storage targets of 2.6 GW by 2030 and 6.3 GW by 2035 and offshore wind targets of 2 GW by 2032, 4 GW by 2035 and 9 GW by 2040, and adds climate change to the objectives of the planning system.7 Mar 2024 ↗
- ✗Nuclear Activities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill 2023A Libertarian Party bill, moved in the Legislative Council by David Limbrick, to repeal Victoria's 1983 law prohibiting nuclear activities, which would remove the state ban on nuclear power and related activities.15 Nov 2023 ↗
- ✓Energy Legislation Amendment (Electricity Outage Emergency Response and Other Matters) Bill 2023Lets the Energy Department's Secretary direct electricity distribution businesses to share information and help with relief during emergency power outages, after the 2021 storms. It also lets the Minister set Victorian Energy Upgrades program fees directly, and confirms the Essential Services Commission can seek civil penalties under the program.1 Jun 2023 ↗
Environment & water recorded votes
Votes on record · 5
- ✓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.18 Nov 2025 ↗
- –Climate Change and Energy Legislation Amendment (Renewable Energy and Storage Targets) Bill 2023Brings Victoria's net zero emissions target forward to 2045 in law, raises the 2030 renewable electricity target from 50 to 65 per cent and sets 95 per cent by 2035, sets energy storage targets of 2.6 GW by 2030 and 6.3 GW by 2035 and offshore wind targets of 2 GW by 2032, 4 GW by 2035 and 9 GW by 2040, and adds climate change to the objectives of the planning system.7 Mar 2024 ↗
- ✓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.17 Aug 2023 ↗
Animal welfare recorded votes
Votes on record · 3
- –Domestic Animals Amendment (Rehoming Cats and Dogs and Other Matters) Bill 2025Creates a voluntary State authorisation scheme for pet rehoming organisations. Authorised groups must meet requirements such as reporting what happens to the animals, and can foster cats and dogs for up to 12 months without council registration and hold adoption days in pet shops. The existing Foster Care Scheme is replaced.16 Oct 2025 ↗
- ✓Motion on transparency in Greyhound Racing Victoria's recordsCalled on the Government to have Greyhound Racing Victoria's annual report count deaths within 10 days of a race or trial injury as racing fatalities, give the reason for every euthanasia including off-track, break down rehoming outside its adoption program, and report positive tests by substance, and to consider measures to reduce the use of prohibited substances.16 Oct 2024 ↗
- ✓Motion on wildlife rescueNoted that wildlife rescue is a largely volunteer-led emergency service whose rescues had risen 40 per cent without extra funding, and called on the Government to investigate reimbursing commonly used self-funded medicines, assess trialling paid full-time wildlife rescuer positions, and hold a roundtable on better supporting wildlife rescue and rehabilitation.20 Mar 2024 ↗
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