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My policies

Having just finished high school in 2017, with me continuing on to tertiary studies and with many years of leadership experience at the helm, I know that I am very capable enough to deliver the things that really matters to you. My willingness to campaign for a place in state parliament is driven by the fact that I really care about you, and your quality and cost of living. So take a look below about the issues that I will try to address, as a whole of Victoria. There could even be more added to this, so keep your eyes peeled for that!

Health

There will be substantial amounts of funding provided for Victoria's hospitals and health system. This includes:

  • New hospitals in Melton and Waurn Ponds

  • Designating Monash Medical Centre, Sunshine Hospital and Geelong University Hospital as additional major adult trauma centres

  • Funding to improve mental health services, and services for alcohol and drug addiction

  • Funding for 100 ambulance vehicles, 2 ambulance helicopters and 500 paramedics

  • Hiring additional doctors and dentists, and extending opening hours for GPs and dental services across Victoria

  • Upgrading and expanding hospital emergency departments, and hiring extra ED staff across the state to reduce hospital wait times

  • Incentives for hospital staff who are also willing to work in regional Victoria

  • Funding for medical research, with the ultimate goal of curing all cancers and diseases

  • Research into allergies and asthma

  • Provide additional training for those in the medical profession along with medical students

  • More aged care facilities in Victoria to support our ageing population

  • Funding for suicide prevention hotlines such as Lifeline and Beyond Blue

  • Funding for extra highly skilled surgeons which reduces elective surgery waiting times

Infrastructure

investments in transport and infrastructure will help keep Victoria moving. Here are just a few:

  • New airport rail link, later extending to Bendigo and Seymour train lines

  • Melton and Wyndham Vale incorporated into the suburban rail network

  • Conversion of highway between Geelong and Warrnambool, between Traralgon and Bairnsdale, and between Ballarat and Horsham to freeway standard, to be completed in the next 10 years

  • High speed rail of at least 200 km/h between Melbourne and Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton/Albury, Traralgon, Mildura and Warrnambool, and between Geelong and Adelaide/Ballarat

  • Building East West Link, Outer Metropolitan Ring Road, North East Link and new tunnel between Dingley Bypass and Eastern Freeway

  • New Surf Coast Freeway between Geelong Ring Road and Aireys Inlet, and second Geelong bypass

  • Bypasses of regional centres such as Shepparton, Colac, Warrnambool, Mildura, Traralgon, Sale and Bairnsdale, and an eastern bypass of Bendigo, all to be completed within the next 15 years

  • Upgrades to existing regional Victorian freeways, and increasing speed limits on the entire regional Victorian freeway network to as high as 140 km/h

  • Removing intersections and more railway crossings across Melbourne and regional Victoria, supported by traffic modelling and community consultation

  • Major upgrades to Southern Cross Station including separate facilities for interstate train services

  • Extensions to the Victorian rail network including rail links to Doncaster and Rowville, the Surf Coast rail link to as far as Aireys Inlet, and rail connections to the Bellarine Peninsula, South Gippsland, Hamilton and Lakes Entrance

  • Incentives for employers willing to offer flexible working hours, a work from home option and/or decentralise the workforce to reduce traffic congestion

Education

We all know that education is a key component to success for the rest of our lives. This is why investments in the education and training system will ensure the younger generations of Victoria have the skills and knowledge they need. Those policies include:

  • Funding for additional teacher training

  • New classrooms at schools across the state which enables reduced class sizes

  • Reviewing Victoria's curriculum, ensuring they align with student's needs and wants and the demands of the future society

  • Additional technical schools across the state

  • New and upgraded universities in Melbourne's outer suburbs including the Berwick campus, and a new university in Geelong's northern suburbs and Melbourne's outer north aneast

  • More than 20 new schools added in the next four years

  • Investments in STEM education

  • Ensuring student representation across all Victorian schools

  • Ensuring all high school students have choices of which subjects they wanted to study

  • Ensuring as many VCE subjects as possible are available to international students studying on the northern hemisphere timetable

  • Incentives for teachers who are also willing to work in regional Victoria

Law and order

Victoria's liveability can be highly dependent on safety and security. Our laws and legal system helps to achieve this whilst also ensuring ethical rights for Victorians. However there is always room for improvement. Investments and policies relating to law and order include:

  • New magistrates court in Box Hill and upgrade to the Supreme Court of Victoria

  • Five new additional police stations over the next four years

  • Funding for programs to prevent youth crime, domestic/family violence and terrorism

  • Campaigns and updated legislation targeted at reducing domestic and family violence

  • Abolishing peer passenger restrictions for P1 drivers

  • Reviewing Victoria's sentencing laws to ease the burden on correctional facilities whilst keeping the community safe

  • Abolishing lockout laws in the city of Ballarat

  • Reviewing laws to make it easier for Victorians to adopt children

  • Building a 200 to 300 seat courtroom in or near the Supreme Court so that court cases of higher public interest can be accommodated

  • Ensuring laws keep up with technological change

Employment and economy

Victoria's economic plan will focus on jobs, which will play a part in ensuring goals by the federal government, of strong and sustainable economic growth (3-3.5% GDP per annum) and full employment (4.5-5% unemployment rate) are achieved. Here is how this can be done:

  • Extra support for workers affected by the demise of the Australian car manufacturing industry and the closure of Hazelwood power station

  • Extra support for taxi drivers affected by the arrival of ride sharing service Uber

  • Ensuring jobs growth aligns with population growth, by employing people into sectors of high demand

  • Relocating both VicRoads and the Education Department headquarters to Ballarat, ensuring jobs across the public sector are spread out

  • More support to ensure Victorians involved in workplace accidents return to work as soon as possible

  • Work with the Federal Government to ease visa restrictions to ensure skills shortages are utilised

  • Ensuring the wellbeing of the Victorian workforce. Provisions will be made for paid stress leave, and domestic violence leave where necessary

  • Increase capacity for STEM related jobs, in which those who are unemployed due to technological changes or changes in business operations might get into

  • Provide subsidies for small businesses in order to continue their operations

  • Developing and enhancing links between Victorian and international businesses and companies which increases our international competitiveness

  • Extending trading hours for shopping centres in Melbourne CBD, as well as Chadstone, The Glen, Box Hill, Eastland and Highpoint shopping centres

Tourism and major events

We can all do our bit to ensure Victoria is more attractive for visitors to enjoy. The following initiatives will enhance Victoria's reputation as a great place to visit. These include:

  • Building Victoria's second casino in either Geelong, Ballarat or Bendigo

  • Expand White Night to more regional centres such as Echuca, Shepparton and Warrnambool

  • Work with event organisers to ensure the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix stays in Victoria. After 2023 this event can either stay in Melbourne or be relocated to either Geelong, Ballarat or Phillip Island

  • Improve amenity for visitors to the Great Ocean Road and other popular tourist attractions, and investigate the feasibility of building a new airport near the 12 Apostles

  • Increase hotel capacity across Victoria including Melbourne CBD and Geelong

  • New convention centres and theme parks to be built in Geelong and Wodonga

  • Upgrade facilities at Mount Buller and the roads leading up to the resort

  • Investigate the prospect of Melbourne bidding for a future Olympic Games after all important commitments are made, and support a regional Victorian bid for a future Commonwealth Games

  • Work with relevant organisers to secure other key major events

  • Increasing the capacity of the Flemington Racecourse to 150,000 people and shifting the Melbourne Cup Carnival to late November so more students can also have the opportunity to attend after their exams

  • Building visitor facilities and upgrading the racecourse and outdoor concert venue at Hanging Rock

  • Establishing multicultural hubs in more of Melbourne's suburbs as well as Shepparton

Land and Environment

Ensuring Victoria is habitable for future generations is critical. This is why a number of policies will be targeted at ensuring Victoria’s sustainability. This includes:

  • Funding for renewable energy including subsidies for solar energy and wind energy projects in south western and central Victoria

  • Ensuring our important agricultural areas (particularly the Goulburn Valley) and dams are protected from development, thus ensuring food and water security respectively

  • Linking technological change with sustainability

  • Legislation to ensure all new homes built have at least a 4 star energy rating

  • Increase planting of trees and declare more areas as national parks

  • Extra recruitment of volunteer firefighters and SES personnel to manage a potential increase in bushfires and extreme weather events

  • Expanding water quality forecasting service to all of Victoria’s beaches

  • Noise walls installed in sections of Victoria’s future high speed rail network

  • Establishing a botanical garden in Melbourne’s west

Housing

With Victoria’s ever expanding population, there is pressure on supply of affordable housing. Initiatives that will help combat this issue include:

  • Higher density housing in Melbourne’s middle and outer suburbs such as Box Hill, Dandenong, Ringwood, Werribee, Clayton and Caulfield, and regional centres such as Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo

  • Establishment of new estates in appropriate areas

  • Ensuring there is a buffer between developments in Melbourne and Geelong where possible

  • Ensuring the homeless get top priority for public housing

  • Abolish stamp duty for those who are living in Melbourne’s inner city as well as first home buyers

  • Increase development near key public transport links

  • Managing foreign investment in the housing market

  • Ensure old but significant buildings get placed into the Victorian Heritage Register

  • Ensure any houses needed to be vacant to make way for major construction projects is offset by more housing developments

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