Where the Victorian Socialists stands — platform positions
20 position(s), each sourced exclusively from the party's own published materials (websites, platform documents, white papers) — never from media coverage. Where the party's own materials don't state a position, nothing is shown.
Immigration party platform
The party states solidarity with refugees against Australia's "border-protection regime" and with migrants, and calls to build a mass movement to overturn what it describes as decades of bipartisan policy toward refugees, in support of refugee and migrant rights.
Economic nationalism party platform
The platform proposes increasing the company tax rate to 50 percent, imposing criminal sanctions and jail time for multinational tax evasion and offshore wealth concealment, and a 10 percent tax on assets owned by foreign billionaires in Australia.
Foreign policy & aid party platform
The platform calls to tear up the AUKUS agreement, scrap the US alliance, and close US military bases and surveillance infrastructure on Australian soil, opposing Australia's involvement in "great power rivalry" and future wars in the Asia-Pacific; it also calls to end political, military and economic ties with Israel.
Abortion & reproductive policy party platform
The platform states support for the right to control one's body and reproductive function "at any point in a pregnancy," and calls to enshrine publicly funded abortion and contraception, funding GP training and nurse-led abortion care models to expand access.
Voluntary assisted dying party platform
The health policy platform includes legislating to support people's choice to die with dignity.
Gender & LGBTQ+ policy party platform
The party states solidarity with LGBTIQ people who experience oppression as a result of their gender or sexual identity and describes itself as unequivocal in defending the rights of LGBTI people as part of its broader platform.
Religious freedom party platform
The party's aims state that socialists uphold universal freedom and human rights, including freedom of speech, freedom to organise, and freedom of conscience and religion, and freedom from persecution or discrimination.
Drugs & law and order party platform
The platform calls to decriminalise possession and non-commercial production/small-scale distribution of drugs for personal use, legalise a regulated and taxed cannabis market for adult use, expand publicly funded treatment facilities, and release and expunge the records of prisoners convicted of nonviolent drug offences; it also calls to divert police and state surveillance funding into social services.
Gambling & gaming reform party platform
The platform calls to phase out all poker machines within five years, ban gambling industry advertising and sports sponsorship, mandate gambling shutdown hours at Crown Casino and licensed venues, require display of real-odds information, ban political donations from the gambling industry, and increase taxes on the gambling industry.
Sex work decriminalisation party platform
The platform calls for full decriminalisation of sex work and recognition of sex workers' right to organise collectively for their pay and conditions.
Native forest logging party platform
The federal platform calls for a ban on the logging of old-growth forests and an urgent program of reforestation, sustainable farming and biodiversity protection.
First Nations & treaty party platform
The platform calls for pursuing Treaties with First Nations people to secure justice, sovereignty and land rights, states that a socialist society should not unilaterally impose its laws over Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and commits to recognising Aboriginal land rights and the right to self-determination.
Nuclear & uranium party platform
The platform states opposition to nuclear weapons and nuclear energy programs, calling for an end to uranium mining and exports and opposing any attempt to build an Australian nuclear industry.
Integrity & anti-corruption party platform
The party states that socialist democracy should guarantee the right to recall elected representatives, give elected representatives no special privileges, and subject all political and civic institutions to democratic control.
Housing & planning party platform
The party proposes building 1 million new public housing units over a decade via a public builder, a five-year freeze on rent increases (based on 2022 prices) with subsequent caps tied to CPI or wage growth, a National Rental Inspectorate to set minimum rental standards, scrapping negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount on investment properties, mandatory 30 percent public housing inclusionary zoning in major new developments, and seizure of properties left vacant for 12 months for allocation to the public housing waitlist.
Health party platform
The platform calls for fully free universal health care, increased federal hospital funding, nationalising GP clinics with bulk-billing, replacing the NDIS with Medicare-funded publicly run disability services, adding dental and mental health care to Medicare, expanding the PBS, mandated nurse and aged-care staffing ratios, and ending subsidies to private health insurers.
Education party platform
The platform calls for free public education at all levels, abolishing all university fees and reinstating free tertiary education, cancelling student debt (HECS/HELP etc.), increasing TAFE/VET funding, banning universities from profit-seeking and from employing more than 5 percent of staff casually, and ending land tax exemptions for private schools.
Transport & infrastructure 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.
Energy party platform
The party calls for 100 percent of electricity from renewables by 2030, a zero-emissions economy by 2035, bringing the energy sector under public ownership, an immediate ban on new coal mines, a ban on coal-fired power by 2030, an end to fracking and unconventional gas extraction, and a ban on new gas projects, alongside guaranteed alternative jobs for fossil fuel workers.
Environment & water party platform
The platform calls for a ban on logging of old-growth forests and an urgent program of reforestation, sustainable farming and biodiversity protection; it also criticises profit-driven industrial farming for water pollution, river depletion, land clearing and biodiversity loss, proposing a transition to regenerative farming practices.
Compare with other parties: Immigration · Economic nationalism · Foreign policy & aid · Abortion & reproductive policy · Voluntary assisted dying · Gender & LGBTQ+ policy · Religious freedom · Drugs & law and order · Gambling & gaming reform · Sex work decriminalisation · Native forest logging · First Nations & treaty · Nuclear & uranium · Integrity & anti-corruption · Housing & planning · Health · Education · Transport & infrastructure · Energy · Environment & water.
Who donates to the Victorian Socialists?
Disclosed total: $40,000 AUD · 2 disclosed donor(s)
AEC detailed receipts (donations above the disclosure threshold only). Party-owned entities and branch transfers appear tagged.
| Donor | Amount (AUD) |
|---|---|
| Fernanda Trecenti | $20,000 |
| Margaret Perrott | $20,000 |
Source: AEC Transparency Register
Political compass placement
Economic -9, social -7 (high confidence) — researched party-level placement, not a score computed from this database. Explicitly anti-capitalist, calling for collective worker ownership and a socialist republic (extreme economic left); socially libertarian, campaigning for refugee rights, drug decriminalisation and against expanded police powers.
Members & candidates on record
- Jasmine Duff — Victorian Socialists · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Assembly · Footscray (VIC) · candidate · Victoria 2026
- Sue Munro — Victorian Socialists · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Assembly · Werribee (VIC) · candidate · Victoria 2026
- Jordan van den Lamb — Victorian Socialists · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Assembly · Melbourne (VIC) · candidate · Victoria 2026
- John Stanley — Victorian Socialists · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Assembly · Warrandyte (VIC) · candidate · Victoria 2026
- Saravina Afaj — Victorian Socialists · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Assembly · Box Hill (VIC) · candidate · Victoria 2026
- Jack McMahon — Victorian Socialists · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Assembly · Dandenong (VIC) · candidate · Victoria 2026
- Connor Buchanan — Victorian Socialists · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Assembly · Mulgrave (VIC) · candidate · Victoria 2026
- Jack Gardner — Victorian Socialists · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Assembly · Ringwood (VIC) · candidate · Victoria 2026
- Catherine Wilson — Victorian Socialists · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Assembly · Macedon (VIC) · candidate · Victoria 2026
- Nalinda Amarasiri Gunawardana — Victorian Socialists · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Assembly · Berwick (VIC) · candidate · Victoria 2026