Making it easier to do business, own a home, and unleash Victoria’s economic potential.

Foodbank Australia reports that roughly 1 in 3 households have experienced moderate-to-severe food insecurity over the past year, meaning they have either had to compromise on food quality or skip meals entirely.

Victorians are finding it difficult to pay for the high cost of necessities, such as housing, food and fuel.

Australia is a country that is energy abundant and food rich, the idea that we would be squeezed on these essentials demonstrates the damage that has been caused through reckless and irresponsible governance.

As a result of Labor’s economic mismanagement, Victoria’s net debt has now reached $163 billion and is expected to reach $199 billion by the end of the decade.

High debt and the $10 billion (and growing) annual interest bill, leaves us the highest taxed Australians with less being spent on our essential services like hospitals, roads and schools.

Make no mistake – Labor’s high debt, high tax policies are the cause of the rapid decline in our living standards. It makes the cost of living higher for everyone, and it’s harder for businesses to stay afloat, let alone be competitive.

My policies will make it easier to do business, build homes and supply affordable energy.

Since the price of energy is a key factor in the prices of all goods and services, I will promote the right mix of new and traditional energy sources to reduce prices and keep them down. Prioritising energy affordability and grid reliability before imposing unfeasible transition mandates.

Reduce crime through common sense justice and youth prevention programs.

In Victoria, a home is broken into roughly every 20 minutes according to community safety groups like Neighbourhood Watch; insurance data shows a residential break-in claim filed about every two hours. This is unacceptable.

Having worked with Victoria Police as a Kingston City Councillor, it is a small cohort of young repeat offenders that commit most of the crimes in our area.

The role of the government is to keep its citizens safe; Labor is failing our community when it comes to crime.

Fix the broken healthcare system, support our frontline workers, and bolster mental health initiatives.

In May this year Victoria’s surgery waitlist ballooned by more than 4000 in three months, prompting warnings of a return to pandemic-era levels. Ambulance response times are failing to meet targets, and hospital emergency departments are under immense strain. Labor’s mismanagement has pushed our healthcare system to crisis point and it is Victorians who suffer deadly consequences. One report suggests ambulance ramping in Victoria may have been associated with at least 70 preventable deaths in 2018.

Youth Mental Health

Between March 2020 and March 2022, one in four young Australians between 16 and 24 years-old thought about suicide and 15 per cent attempted self-harm. Eighty-two per cent of young people surveyed said they had experienced mental health issues during pandemic. Mental health issues have increased in recent years and have surged since the pandemic. According to the National Mental Health Survey, mental illness in young people has increased by 50% between 2007 and 2022. While nearly a quarter of young Australians seek or receive mental health care, roughly 13% report trying to access professional help but failing to receive it due to wait times, cost, or availability.

I believe the health and wellness of our community is of the utmost importance. Improvements and increased funding into the healthcare system will also help to prevent delays in early diagnosis of cancer, diabetes and early treatment of stroke.

Restoring trust in Victoria’s democracy by sweeping away corruption and ensuring maximum transparency.

As a whistleblower, I’ve experienced Labor’s CFMEU style stand over tactics firsthand. I was targeted for over a year by the Labor State Government in my workplace, allegedly over my opposition to a now defunded Council grant to the Druze religious organisation outside the Kingston City municipality borders.

The Labor State Government spent approximately half a million dollars of ratepayers’ money trying to silence me and have me removed from my democratically elected position. It is alleged that former Local Government Minister Nick Staikos MP threatened the Mayor and CEO of Kingston City Council with the appointment of Labor State Government monitors in April of 2025 to try and shut me up, and months later, he succeeded.

Aside from the deeply undemocratic political interference, we witnessed Canberra-grade waste with a Kingston City Council postcode. One of the monitors, John Tanner AM, invoiced the Council thousands for days he did not work and do not exist.

Staikos is now personally facing a reported $3.5 million lawsuit concerning an allegedly unlawful council suspension of a Mayor in Whittlesea. Nothing screams "confident government" like trying to remove elected representatives and then meeting them again in court with seven figures on the claim form.

I raised concerns with the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and escalated the matters to the Victorian Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush. I will continue to pursue justice for Kingston residents and ratepayers.

My experience with the Labor State Government in politics is not isolated. A redacted section of an integrity report titled ‘Rotting from the Top’ by barrister Geoffrey Watson SC estimated that alleged corruption and criminality within the Victorian branch of the CFMEU has bled taxpayers and major infrastructure projects dry of roughly $15 billion.

That’s our hard-earned money flowing directly into the hands of bikie gangs, underworld figures, and organised crime under the current Labor Government.

We’ve also been hit with a $598 million Commonwealth Games waste, the Daniel Andrews “Bike Boy” allegations and his bungled, draconian pandemic response. Labor has no shortage of corruption scandals in Victoria!

I believe all Victorians deserve trustworthy and transparent representation in our Parliament, and that Labor’s corruption has no place in our society.

Restore Victoria as the place for doing business - not the place where business is driven out by high costs, big taxes, and massive overheads.

Patrick Durkin, quoting a survey in the Australian Financial Review said, “Victoria is the hardest place in Australia to do business.”

As a small business owner of 15 years in this State – I can tell you firsthand he’s not wrong.

I’m a dance school owner. My business was pushed to the edge by the government’s overreach during the pandemic.

In my industry, it is anecdotally reported that a significant number of the state's dance and performing arts studios closed their doors permanently due to prolonged lockdowns and financial distress.

My sector isn’t the only one suffering; while running a business is challenging even in good times, Labor’s anti-business policies are decimating small businesses, leading to a loss of income and business closures.

Small businesses are the backbone of our society, comprising 32% of our total economy. They account for 98% of all businesses and 42% of the total business workforce in Australia. Generating $429 billion to the economy each year serves as a primary engine for local community prosperity and state economic growth.

While large businesses have the resources to deal with ever-increasing government regulation - some of which they have a hand in writing - small businesses don’t.

Labor treats small business as a bottomless pit where they think taxes can be squeezed out of us indefinitely. It only leads to higher prices for consumers and business failure.

I’ll cut commercial energy overheads: cancel Victoria’s gas restrictions and upcoming bans, support reliable gas supply for commercial kitchens, workshops, and homes, and end market-distorting subsidies that drive up energy costs.

Less tax on wages, less tax on land, less paperwork, and cheaper power.

That is how our local high streets and trade precincts stay open.

Labor has treated small businesses with nothing but contempt during their tenure: I believe it’s time small businesses were given a fair go.

Eliminating the barriers to home ownership and restoring the democratic process to residential planning.

Land Tax

Labor slashed Victoria’s land tax threshold from $300,000 down to just $50,000: the lowest in Australia (compared to NSW’s $1,075,000 threshold). Overnight, hundreds of thousands of ordinary owners, small landlords, and local shopkeepers were dragged into an unfair tax net.

Land tax has become a not-so-secret cost-of-living penalty. Landlords pass every extra dollar directly onto weekly residential rents and commercial shop leases. By reversing Labor's threshold cuts and capping state land tax burdens, we stop runaway rent hikes, protect small family enterprises, and keep Clarinda’s local high streets open. Wealth created in Clarinda should stay in Clarinda.

Stamp Duty

Stamp duty is a lock on the front door for Victorians. Seniors remain trapped in large family homes because moving costs tens of thousands in tax, while first-home buyers compete for crumbs.

By removing stamp duty barriers for downsizing seniors, we unlock existing housing stock without spending billions. Seniors move comfortably without being penalised, empty bedrooms become family bedrooms, and young households get access to homes that are currently locked away. Stop taxing people for moving: let’s make the housing we already have work.

Restoring Planning Democracy

Over their nearly 12 years in power, the State Labor Government has stripped away local planning rights, handing sweeping authority to Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny MP to sign away community liveability. Under the Planning Amendment (Better Decisions Made Faster) Act 2026 and Activity Centre mandates, high-rises and high density are forced into Clarinda streets without proper community infrastructure or consultation.

This top-down overreach threatens local green spaces, Port Phillip Bay, and risks dumping billions in drainage upgrades onto local ratepayers. I will fight to reinstate Clarinda residents’ rights to object, participate, and shape the future of their own streets and neighbourhoods.