Our economy should work for people, not profiteering corporations including the property developers and big corporations.
People are struggling to keep their head above water because the cost of everything is going up, and wages have flatlined.
The Greens want to improve the standard of living for Victorians with more affordable housing, and cheaper energy, education and transport.
We will also create more well paid, secure jobs and higher wages for teachers, nurses and other workers who provide essential public services.
And we’ll pay for it by making big corporations pay their fair share of tax.
The Greens’ plan to tackle cost of living includes:
- Cheaper energy bills for households through a publicly-owned energy retailer.
- Stop the big supermarkets from price-gouging through targeted price controls on essential groceries.
- Making public schools genuinely free with no out-of-pocket expenses for families.
- Higher wages for essential public sector workers by removing the wages cap for non-executive workers.
- Building more affordable housing and freezing rents.
We can increase revenue to pay for the public services we need, like schools and hospitals, through making big corporations and property developers pay their fair share of tax.
The Greens’ plan to tax big banks and corporations includes:
- End unfair taxes that prioritise property developers and investors over first home buyers and renters
- Introduce a levy on property developers so they have to contribute to public and social housing.
- Doubling the royalty rates for coal, gas and oil.
- Increase taxes on predatory industries like gambling and tobacco t
- Making levies on water corporations fairer, by charging all of them the same rate (5%).
- Reducing congestion in the inner city by immediately increasing the congestion levy.
