In the lead-up to the Victorian state election on Saturday 28 November, The Riv invited candidates to outline some of their party’s policies so voters can make an informed choice.
The one condition was every policy discussed be costed, either by an independent source or by the candidate.
This article is written by Garner Smith, the One Nation candidate for Murray Plains.
ONE NATION COSTED POLICIES MURRAY PLAINS
- Reduce administrative burdens on members of the police force to keep sworn officers in the community fighting crime COST $0
- Maintain, not relax, police recruitment standards COST $0
- Make parents liable for fines and property damage of children under 16 COST $0
- Replace the current Emergency Service and Volunteers Fund with a transparent funding mechanism that supports frontline firefighting rather than losing money in bureaucracy COST $0
- Scrap statewide Treaty and abolish Gellung Warl COST $0
- Introduce automatic expiry dates for Victorian public entities and agencies, requiring an agency to demonstrate its value before it can continue COST $0
- Scrap all net-zero targets and subsidies COST $0
- Cancel the VNI West powerline, started by the federal National Party, that will run straight through the middle of farming land and Murray Plains COST $0
- Create Zone 7A to protect the upgraded, efficient and productive Torrumbarry irrigation system COST $0
- End Victoria's ban on nuclear energy COST $0
- Reverse the ban on gas connections for new homes COST $0
- Change water carryover rules to enable farmers to carry water over and limit carryover ability of investors and the environmental water holder COST $0
- Scrutinise planning applications for wind turbines on farm land and require turbine developers to pay for decommissioning bonds up front COST $0
- Conduct a Ministerial review of the benefits of Victoria being in the Murray Darling Basin Plan introduced by the Federal National Party and signed up to by the Nationals and exit the MDBP of it is not in the best interest of Victoria COST $0
- Support and promote coal fired power in the Latrobe valley as the most affordable form of electricity COST $0
- Reinstate the right to access off-quota/supplementary water to irrigation farmers COST $0
- Cut red tape by requiring two regulations to be removed for every new regulation introduced by the State Government COST $0
- Hold a lazy, complacent and disconnected Labor government to account, unlike the National Party has over the last 12 years COST $0
- Support native timber harvesting, processing and local manufacturing COST $0
- Make Murray Plains front and centre in political circles, instead of being just another safe National Party seat whose electoral outcome is already known and that warrants little attention COST $0
- Refuse to yield to the Liberal Party when they want to sanitise the scope of policies to appease their inner Melbourne audience COST $0
- Publish the condition and funding of every major regional road COST $0
- Throw open the state financial books to scrutiny by the public COST $0
- Protect duck hunting with current bag limits COST $0
- Increase penalties where a firearm is used in a crime COST $0
- Prioritise literacy, numeracy, science, history and civics in education COST $0
- Simplify administrative and cross-curriculum requirement on teachers so they can focus on teaching COST $0
- Redirect every dollar saved from administrative cuts and non-clinical programs in health into more nurses, more doctors and more beds COST $0
- Reclassify large scale wind and solar projects as industrial developments that must meet fire safety standards and attract reflective land tax rates COST $0
- Oppose any proposal that locks out hunters, four-wheel drivers, trail bike riders, horse riders, climbers and fossickers from state forests COST $0
- Remove requirement on councils to have climate change policies and climate impact statements COST $0
- TAKE VICTORIA BACK COST $0