Each position below is sourced exclusively from the party's own published materials — never from media coverage. Click a party for its full platform, donors and members. Individual members' own stated positions are on their record pages.
Australian Labor Party party platform
Labor's materials commit to major transport investment including $10.3 billion for transport infrastructure projects, $3.8 billion for the Suburban Rail Loop East, and $1.75 billion for freight rail upgrades, and state Labor will work with state governments on rail needs and ensure more trains are built in Australia to create skilled manufacturing jobs.
Liberal Party party platform
The party's plan commits to a $250 million increase to the Roads to Recovery program, lifting funding to $1 billion per year from 2025-26 to help local governments maintain and upgrade local roads.
Australian Greens party platform
The platform states transport systems should operate on principles of equity of access, ecological sustainability and public ownership, with commitments to fast, frequent, reliable, affordable and accessible public transport connecting regions to metropolitan centres.
Victorian Socialists party platform
The party calls for public transport to be publicly owned, safe and free, and for airlines, buses, trains, trams, freight and delivery services to be brought back into public ownership, along with accessible transport infrastructure and expanded cycling and pedestrian networks.
The Nationals party platform
The party's plan commits $1 billion to reinstate the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure program, $600 million for a new Ag & Mining Roads program, and reinstatement of the 80:20 federal funding model for nationally significant road projects in regional and remote Australia.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party party platform
The party supports nation-building infrastructure projects across water, rail, roads and energy, combined with a national apprenticeship scheme providing wage subsidies of 75%, 50% and 25% across the first three years. It has also promoted the "Iron Boomerang" east-west rail corridor project and states roadways and ports should be off-limits to foreign investors.
Animal Justice Party party platform
The party's land transport policy calls for a national shift away from road transport toward rail, mass transit, walking and cycling, prioritising walkability and public transport in town planning, steep reductions in private vehicle use in urban areas, and reallocating road and car-park space for native habitat and active transport.
Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party party platform
The NSW platform states it will work to expand and upgrade rural water, rail, road and port infrastructure, particularly in regional NSW, alongside TAFE networks to build necessary skills.
Legalise Cannabis Party party platform
The party advocates reforming drug-driving laws so roadside testing measures actual impairment rather than the mere presence of cannabis, argues current roadside drug testing does not make roads safer and penalises legal medicinal cannabis patients regardless of impairment, and calls for a legal driving defence for medicinal cannabis users.
Katter's Australian Party party platform
The platform supports the CopperString project, a roughly 720km high-voltage electricity transmission line connecting a substation near Woodstock, south of Townsville, to Mount Isa via Cloncurry, valued at around $1.7 billion, alongside advocacy for improved rail freight arrangements to keep bulk freight off North Queensland roads.
Libertarian Party party platform
The party proposes moving transport infrastructure into self-funded public non-financial corporations or the private sector rather than government agencies, and replacing existing transport subsidies with a transport voucher residents could use for mass transit, road tolls or private vehicle costs.
Centre Alliance party platform
Stated election priorities include extending the Seaford rail line to Aldinga, duplicating Main South Road, upgrading public and mass transport, extending the Amy Gillett bikeway, and reinstating Supplementary Road Funding for South Australia.
Democratic Labour Party party platform
The party proposes cutting public transport fares (rail, bus and ferry) by 25%, halving petrol and diesel vehicle registration fees, cutting driver licence charges by 25%, and building very high speed rail links between state capitals and major regional towns.
United Australia Party party platform
The platform proposes establishing fast trains 120km from capital cities to open up affordable land and create satellite cities within a 20-minute commute of a CBD, alongside new transport links to open land for housing and facilitating world-class communications and transport infrastructure.