Victorian Socialists

The party's policies include:[26]

• A more progressive tax system and a wealth tax on "the super rich".
• Abolishing the GST.
• Ending subsidies for the mining, banking, and energy private sector.
• Public ownership of energy, public transport, aged care, childcare, hospitals, vocational training and disability services
• Reversing historical government privatisation.
• Removing anti-union laws, reversing casual employment trends, and implementing a right to strike.
• Implementing a guaranteed retirement age of 60 with universal access to an aged pension.
• Creating a bill of rights.
• Negotiating a treaty "to respect Aboriginal sovereignty and land rights".
• Abolishing the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
• Repealing data retention laws.
• Implementing a voting age of 16 years old.
• Abolishing co-payments to "restore free, universal health care" and implementing free dental care.
• Implementing a National Broadband Network with fibre-to-the-premises.
• Re-instating the Commonwealth Employment Service to assist with finding employment, and abolishing Job Network.
• Removing Work for the Dole and "other forms of welfare quarantining".

Victorian Socialists launched its 2018 election manifesto on 24 August at the Brunswick Town Hall, outlining a broadly left-wing and socialist vision. It is based on broad principles of public ownership, workers' rights and equality.[27][28] The party's policies include:

• Support for ongoing Victorian Government reforms, including limiting rent rises per year, limiting bond to 4 weeks' rent and the abolition of no reason vacancy notices
• Five-year freeze on rent increases and subsequent rent increases to be indexed to the Consumer Price Index
• 50,000 new public housing units over the next five years
• Public ownership of energy, public transport, aged care, childcare, hospitals, vocational training and disability services
• Large-scale public investment and cessation of subsidies to private companies
• Stopping public funding of private schools and greater funding of public schools
• Restore full funding for free and public TAFE
• Increase in sector-wide bargaining powers of trade unions and protection of the right to strike
• Addressing crime through addressing root causes such as housing, education and employment
• Large-scale public investment in renewable energy

In 2020, the party announced its positions responding to key COVID-19 challenges faced by society.[29][30]

• Access to high-quality healthcare, education (schools and higher education), childcare, utilities (energy, water, NBN, gas), roads, public transport, are all basic human rights and should be free
• Nationalise all essential industries
• Government takeovers not corporate bailouts for all big companies that require government money to survive
• Jobs in the significantly expanded public sector must be secure, permanent, well-paid jobs, with conditions protected by fighting unions
• Tax the rich. Massively increase corporate taxes and income tax on the very high-income earners. 50 per cent wealth tax on anyone with assets over $10 million
• The travel ban has led to a massive crisis in the higher education sector. The Federal government must step in to fully fund higher education
• Ban evictions & suspend rent payments for all those without a steady income
• Free childcare should be maintained after the pandemic and the childcare system overhauled by ending privatisation and providing 24-hour childcare to meet the needs of shift workers
• Oppose all industrial relations reforms that reduce workers’ rights. Restore and expand workers rights to collective bargaining and to strike
• Defend the right to protest safely and take industrial action
• Take over private hospitals and integrate them into the public health system