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So what can the party do for you? Election promises are flowing thick and fast.
ELECTION promises have been flowing thick and fast, and we can expect a few more in the coming weeks.
Stay up to date with who’s promised what the Post’s election commitment tracker.
We'll report specific commitments for Bass Coast and also general commitments that are likely to have a major impact on Bass Coast residents.
This list is compiled from announcement by the candidates and the One Gippsland Election Commitment Tracker.
Here are the commitments so far, in strictly alphabetical order. The tracker will be updated as new announcements are made.
Bass Coast commitments
Nil
General and locally relevant
- $350m for 10 public supermarkets, 5 in regional areas. Sites not named.
- $4 billion for 88,000 public homes
- Free public transport and publicly delivered road maintenance
- $3 billion over 10 years to expand free public dental care, starting with 20 seven-day clinics and stronger regional services. Sites not named.
Bass Coast commitments
- Expand Wonthaggi Hospital emergency department by 25 per cent to reduce waiting times. (Not individually costed but $1.5 billion across 12 hospitals.)
- Up to $120,000 for a new scoreboard and solar panels on the clubrooms at Dalyston Recreation Reserve.
- $400,000 for improvements to the Phillip Island Bowling Club.
- $1.6m for Inverloch Kongwak FNC clubrooms.
General
- $53.6 million to lift Victorian Patient Transport Assistance Scheme support: fuel assistance from 21c to 35c per km and accommodation assistance to $125 per night.
- Bring state road maintenance programs back in-house, introduce statewide road quality and safety standards, launch a public road-issue reporting website and give the Gippsland road region more power to prioritise repairs.
- Regional Energy Jobs Guarantee delivering more than $18 billion in wages to regional Victoria from renewable energy projects between 2026 and 2040, with $4.62 billion allocated to Gippsland.
- Cap public transport fares at $30 weekly ($15 concession) for two years.
Already announced
- A five-year Phillip Island Supercars Finals Series agreement for 2027–2031. Amount not specified.
Bass Coast commitments
- $350 million to finish stages two and three of Wonthaggi Hospital redevelopment.
- $10 million towards the Phillip Island Sporting Precinct
- Wonthaggi Technical College - $222 million for 10 technical colleges over eight years, with five in a first term. To be co-located with existing secondary schools and TAFE institutes.
- $7 million for new clubrooms for the Inverloch Kongwak Football Netball Club
- $100,000 for the inaugural Phillip Island Festival of Motoring in March 2027
- $5.5 million to repair and reopen Corinella Jetty and address lighting, boat launching and safety concerns at Lang Lang Jetty.
- $450,000 for a permanent clubhouse for the Corinella Boating and Angling Club.
General and locally relevant
- $40 million over four years for a Victorian Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme, offering incentives of up to $10,000 a year for doctors, nurses, midwives and allied health professionals taking hard-to-fill regional positions.
- $53.6 million to boost the Victorian Patient Transport Assistance Scheme, lifting accommodation from $49.50 to $125 per night, vehicle assistance from 21 cents to 35 cents per kilometre.
- $288 million over four years for untied local road and bridge funding, with each eligible rural and regional council to receive $1.5 million annually.
- Require councils to provide weekly general rubbish collection, review the landfill levy and apply the rates cap to council waste charges.
- Repeal the mandated separate glass bin, let councils choose the waste system that suits their communities
- $5 billion over four years to repair and rebuild Victoria's roads, eliminate one million potholes and lift road maintenance funding by 25 per cent.
- 25 per cent of all new Victorian Government infrastructure expenditure to be allocated to regional Victoria.
Bass Coast commitments (uncosted)
- Investigate a San Remo Emergency Services Precinct, bringing Police, Ambulance, SES and CFA together in one precinct.
- Implement Phillip Island and San Remo Visitor Economy Plan.
- Examine feasibility of Phillip Island-Mornington Peninsula vehicle ferry.
- Make funding of National Vietnam Veterans Museum a priority.
General and locally relevant (uncosted)
- Clear the HECS debt of health graduates who spend five years working in regional Victoria.
- Scrap net-zero targets and subsidies, cancelling VNI West, Western Renewables Link and other large-scale transmission.
- Back coal plant upgrades and mandate Loy Yang to continue operating beyond 2035.
- Repeal ban on nuclear energy.
- Ban industrial-scale energy on prime agricultural and catchment land.
- Protect productive agricultural land and ensure greater rights for landholders affected by major energy and transmission infrastructure.
- Proposes ongoing regional roads maintenance, a public report on road condition and funding, and a 'Pothole Portal'. No dollar allocation.
- Support native timber harvesting, selective harvesting and forestry training.
- Reinstate 35 fisheries roles.
- Abolish stamp duty on insurance, reform land tax and lift the payroll-tax threshold.
- Long-term CFA fleet replacement and greater investment in frontline capability.
Bass Coast commitments (uncosted)
- Protection of the Old Wonthaggi TAFE site on McBride Avenue from commercial interests
- Significant financial investment to ensure the Old Wonthaggi TAFE can become a hub for not-for-profit community services, such as libraries, community refuge, learning spaces, art, social connection and more
- Immediate approval of an interim Environmental Significance Overlay on the Western Port Woodlands.
- Removal of the Extractive Industry Interest Area overlay from the Western Port Woodlands.
- Establish Western Port Woodlands National Park, co-managed with the Bunurong Land Council.
- Implement and fund the Westernport Framework.
- Advocate for necessary funding to allow the Wonthaggi RSL to provide temporary shelter for people sleeping rough through a Winter Shelter program, and to create a Resilience Hub for people during local emergencies.
- Extend the subsidy given to Zoos Victoria to Moonlit Sanctuary to provide free entry on weekends, public holidays and school holidays to support access to family friendly nature-based conservation tourism in the Southeast corridor.
General commitments (uncosted)
- Homes for all – five-year rent freeze, build public housing
- Tax billionaires and big corporations, raise wages
- Reverse privatisation - energy, public transport and essential services back in public hands
- Put politicians on a workers’s wage
- Fix the crisis in schools - more teachers, lower class sizes
- Price caps on supermarket essentials
- Free public childcare, five days a week
- Free, nutritious lunches in public primary schools