Victorian Socialists
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Statement
Evidence
Score
Introduce a tax on the excess profits of large corporations (e.g. on banks, gas companies)
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists support imposing a 10 percent wealth tax on billionaires and a 10 percent tax on assets owned by foreign billionaires in Australia, as well as increasing company tax to 50%, increasing royalties on all coal, gas, oil, base and precious metals to 35%. Victorian Socialists support establishing stringent laws that impose jail time for those who try to hide wealth offshore, as well as imposing criminal sanctions for rampant tax evasion by multinationals.
Introduce short-term price caps (e.g. on rent and gas prices)
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists support imposing a five year freeze on rent increases, as well as capping subsequent increases at whichever is lower, at the time, out of the Consumer Price Index and the Wage Price Index.
Support a significant reduction of individuals employed by the public service
We could not find evidence to suggest Victorian Socialists support this policy
Prevent big companies from controlling the market and limiting consumer choice (e.g. supermarkets)
Type: Statement
Summary: Victorian Socialists responded to our survey as being supportive of reforming regulations that increase corporate competition.
Phase out tax concessions for property investors (e.g. negative gearing or capital gains tax discount)
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists are calling to scrap negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount for all investment properties.
Incentivise state/territory government to increase renter rights and protections
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists support the establishment of a National Rental Inspectorate (NRI) tasked with developing and enforcing a set of legally binding minimum rental standards covering amenity, safety, energy efficiency, and thermal comfort. Victorian Socialists support implementing a new system of mandatory “rentworthy checks”, administered by the NRI, to be completed each time a property is advertised for rent and once every two years in between.
Increase investment in public and community housing
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists support tackling homelessness and the housing shortfall by provision of Commonwealth funding for quality, carbon-neutral public housing, with the goal of building 1 million new public housing units over the next decade.
Allow first home-buyers to access their super to help purchase their first home
We could not find evidence to suggest Victorian Socialists support this policy
Incentivise state/territory governments to increase housing supply
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists endorse the introduction of a new national planning framework with mandatory ‘inclusionary zoning’ so that in all Australian states and territories developers will be compelled to include a percentage of truly affordable housing as part of all major developments.
Help first-home buyers with shared equity programs that would allow participants to co-purchase a home with the government
Type: Statement
Summary: Victorian Socialists responded to our survey as being supportive of expanding shared equity programs, but noted that it is “not a long-term solution to the housing crisis as it can end up just fuelling further price growth but in the short term, in conjunction with other measures such as the construction of more public housing and rent caps, it is a supportable policy.”
Introduce energy bill rebates
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists support states providing an energy bill rebate as a short term measure, while also supporting the nationalisation of the energy industry to end the profiteering by private sector operators and lead a transition to renewables. Victorian Socialists also support other measures for reducing household energy bills.
Increase financial support for energy efficiency upgrades
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports establishing public ownership and democratic control over the energy industry, and adopting a whole-of-economy emergency plan to shift to 100 percent of electricity from renewables by 2030. Victorian Socialists supports establishing a new publicly-controlled renewable energy operator with a charter to secure long-term energy security - ensuring cheap, reliable renewable power and generating tens of thousands of well-paid public sector jobs.
Increase funding for community batteries that increase access to solar
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports establishing public ownership and democratic control over the energy industry, and adopting a whole-of-economy emergency plan to shift to 100 percent of electricity from renewables by 2030. Victorian Socialists supports establishing a new publicly-controlled renewable energy operator with a charter to secure long-term energy security - ensuring cheap, reliable renewable power and generating tens of thousands of well-paid public sector jobs.
Strengthen regulations to prevent price-gouging by energy companies
Type: Website and Statement
Summary: Victorian Socialists responded to our survey as being supportive of regulators being given more power to prevent price-gouging, but note that this should be in the absence of nationalisation, which is their end-goal policy.
Make university free
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports the abolition of all university fees and existing student debt (including HECS/HELP/VetFee HELP etc). Victorian Socialists supports the reinstating of free tertiary education.
Source: https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/universities
Cut a portion of existing student debt
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports the abolition of all university fees and existing student debt (including HECS/HELP/VetFee HELP etc). Victorian Socialists supports the reinstating of free tertiary education.
Source: https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/universities
Support more fee-free TAFE places
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports the expansion of and increased funding for the public vocational education and training sector and TAFE.
Source: https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/universities
Increase funding for public schools
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports making high quality public education free at all levels, funded in line with the best public education systems in the world.
Source: https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/education
Increase funding for and access to childcare subsidies
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports establishing universal access to free, quality early childhood education or childcare services, across a longer span of hours.
Stop fossil fuel project approvals and expansions
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports imposing e.g. 'Impose an immediate ban on new coal mines and a ban on coal fired power by 2030. Victorian Socialists supports ending fracking and all unconventional gas extraction, and imposing a ban on new gas projects.
Accelerate the rollout of renewable energy projects
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports the adoption of a whole-of-economy emergency plan to shift to 100 percent of electricity from renewables by 2030. Victorian Socialists supports a transition to a zero emissions economy by 2035.
Strengthen policies that ensure Australia’s biggest polluters genuinely cut their emissions
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports the upholding and further strengthening of the Safeguard Mechanism, while stating they believe it is currently inadequate for achieving the kind of rapid transition to renewables needed.
Increase investment in preventative health programs
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports boosting funding for preventative care and chronic disease management. Victorian Socialists supports expanding community-based health care networks, reproductive and sexual health clinics. Victorian Socialists supports boosting funding to public mental health services and establishing a network of public psychology and psychiatry clinics.
Make GP visits free or more affordable by increasing bulk billing incentives
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports the increase of bulk billing incentives as an interim solution, or in the absence of full nationalisation of GP clinics to ensure bulk billing.
Increase funding to train, attract, and retain more healthcare professionals, especially in regional areas
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports ensuring fully free, universal health care. Victorian Socialists supports increasing federal funding for hospitals to relieve the stress on emergency departments. Victorian Socialists supports the nationalisation of GP clinics to ensure bulk billing.
Increase funding for dental and mental health
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports making dental and mental health care a part of Medicare.
Expand subsidies to make more prescription medicines cheaper
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports making medicines cheaper through the expansion of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
Increase investment in large-scale renewable energy and storage
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports increased public investment into the renewable energy sector to secure long-term energy security. Victorian Socialists supports establishing public ownership and democratic control over the energy industry.
Sources: https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/energy, https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/climate
Require multinational gas companies to prioritise domestic supply, without supporting the approval of new gas projects
Type: Website and Statement
Summary: Victorian Socialists responded to our survey as being supportive of establishing public ownership and democratic control over the energy industry, while supporting reserve mechanisms as an emergency measure.
Invest in nuclear power as a future energy source, while extending the life of coal power and increasing gas use in the interim
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports ending uranium mining and halting any attempt to build an Australian nuclear industry.
Improve access to government-held information about government policies and decisions
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports increasing funding for meeting Freedom of Information requests in line with legislated timeframes. Victorian Socialists supports implementing reforms to close loopholes in existing legislation.
Source: https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/democracy
Protect the ABC and SBS’s independence and funding
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports increasing funding for public and community cultural institutions, facilities and programs, including museums, galleries, theatres, community radio, television, film and festivals.
Source: https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/arts-and-culture
Require all lobbyists that meet with politicians to be publicly disclosed
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports a crack down on behind-closed-doors political lobbying by big business including legislating to increase transparency requirements for MPs (e.g. publication of ministerial diaries).
Source: https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/democracy
Make public transport more frequent and reliable
Type: Website
Summary:
Victorian Socialists supports improved access to public transport through a variety of measures, including using $50 billion of the money slated to be spent on AUKUS to create a national fund that can be drawn on by states to cover costs associated with the reversal of the privatisation of public transport networks and expansion of public transport, bicycle networks and other active transport options.
Source: https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/transport
Improve bike paths and footpaths to encourage active transport
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports the development of a national 'active transport' plan with a focus on the expansion of bike path networks across major cities, with a commitment to spend $20 per person, per year over five years on upgrading and extending cycling infrastructure.
Source: https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/transport
Increase access and affordability of electric and low-emissions vehicles
Type: Website
Summary: Victorian Socialists supports the initiation of a scheme to subsidise low- and moderate-income motorists who upgrade to electric vehicles. Victorian Socialists supports the abolition of car registration costs, and a slow phase-in of an increased petrol tax. Victorian Socialists supports the use of revenue from this tax to offset the costs of subsidising low- and moderate-income motorists who upgrade to electric vehicles.
Source: https://victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/transport
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