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State Election Platform 2022

The Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s 2022 State Election advocacy is centered around Powering Victoria’s Future and building the best state for business.

State Election Platform 2022

Victoria needs a plan to turbocharge the industries that will set us up for success including ensuring we have the appropriate skills, training opportunities and infrastructure to help power Victoria’s future.

The Victorian Chamber’s election platform is based on four pillars: Strengthening Victoria’s jobs and skills, Building Victoria as the best state to operate a business, Driving Victoria’s economy and Growing Regional Victoria. This platform comprises 61 recommendations, including 20 primary recommendations.

Our members helped shape the priorities and recommendations presented in this platform at metropolitan and regional roundtables and participation in an online membership survey that gathered more than one thousand responses.

View our State Election Platform

 

Victorian Chamber Policy Scorecard Tally

  Fully Adopted Partially Adopted Party Total
LABOR 17 6 23
LIBERAL 19 8 27
GREENS 6 2 8
Victorian Chamber Election Recommendations Adopted  30 7  37

Updated 24 November 2022

Pillar 1: Strengthening Victoria’s jobs and skills

Pol220002 State Election Platform 2022 Pillar 1

Businesses are the heart of our communities. They provide essential goods and services, as well as vital employment opportunities. When businesses are doing well, it highlights optimism, confidence, and reassurance for a better future, but also it provides communities with crucial local jobs and a growing skilled workforce.

This is why we need to cultivate the best jobs and skilled workforce in the nation. Labour shortages, lack of skilled talent, inadequate training, and constraints on workforce participation are impeding business productivity and therefore the growth of our communities.

Primary Recommendations

P1 Develop a standardised microcredential framework, including defining the role, accreditation requirements, and funding mechanisms of microcredentials, to enable the rapid reskilling and upskilling of the workforce.
P2 Set up training centres, like the tunnelling centre, linked to major infrastructure projects (e.g. wind farms, circular economy) to provide students with practical training and address specific skills shortages.
P3 Establish a formal internship framework (e.g. template of internship agreement) for industry and education institutions to easily develop partnerships and incentivise businesses (e.g. through tax breaks) to invest in internship programs to provide immediate labour-shortage relief.
P4 Commit to drive towards zero youth unemployment by 2026 and implement a careers strategy in primary and secondary school curriculum to equip students with the knowledge and tools to make informed skilling and career choices.
P5 Scale up the TAFE Teacher Training Scholarship from the current limit of 200 scholarships to provide more teachers to TAFEs across the State.

View the VCCI Policy Scorecard: Pillar 1

Pillar 2: Building Victoria as the best state to operate a business

Pol220002 State Election Platform 2022 Pillar 2 We want Victoria to be the best state in Australia to own and operate a business. To do this, Victoria must improve our regulatory, investment, tax and procurement systems. Through minimising barriers and easing the cost and access to doing business, we can improve the business environment, increasing outcomes and Victoria’s attractiveness as a place to do business.

Primary Recommendations

P6 Increase the payroll tax threshold from $700,000 to $1.2 million across Victoria to be comparable with NSW’s payroll tax threshold and decrease the regional rate from 1.21 per cent to zero in Regional Victoria to increase regional attractiveness for business investment and growth.
P7 Allow businesses seeking to pre-qualify as suppliers to the Victorian Government to fulfil screening requirements via a single form to streamline procurement processes.
P8 Swap property stamp duty with a broad-based land tax system.
P9 Establish a $500 million credit scheme to provide payroll tax and land tax concessions for manufacturing, sustainability, and high-tech businesses.
P10 Fund Better Regulation Victoria and Services Victoria to lead cultural change, develop a ‘one door’ approach for State and Local Government regulations, and be the point of escalation for the Victoria’s regulatory system.

View the VCCI Policy Scorecard: Pillar 2

Pillar 3: Driving Victoria’s economy

Pol220002 State Election Platform 2022 Pillar 3 To drive Victoria’s economy and ensure growth for future generations, our state must urgently invest in long-term planning and funding for advanced manufacturing, clean energy, sustainable infrastructure, our visitor economy and our services industries. By enabling these industries to grow and create further opportunities for communities, our whole state would thrive.

Primary Recommendations

P11 Fund Visit Victoria to develop a detailed 10-year experience economy strategy to restore and retain Victoria’s reputation for great experiences. It should be focused on two pillars – Tourism and Events – with equal importance given to both.
P12 Create with substantive funding a 10-year Victorian Manufacturing Strategy to boost Victoria’s local manufacturing industry in existing and emerging industries.
P13 Fund an energy subsidy scheme to incentivise commercial landlords to install renewable energy infrastructure.
P14 Promote manufacturing jobs and provide incentives to pursue a career in the industry to attract and retain more employees and grow the local manufacturing sector.
P15 Commit to reviewing and implementing ways to regulate the energy market to ensure certainty of supply and certainty of price for users.

View the VCCI Policy Scorecard: Pillar 3

Pillar 4: Growing Regional Victoria

Pol220002 State Election Platform 2022 Pillar 4

Regional Victoria is the lifeblood of Victoria’s economy. Industries like agribusiness, advanced manufacturing, and tourism power our state. The Victorian Chamber is passionate about positioning Regional Victoria for success through improving regional housing, planning and infrastructure as well making meaningful economic strategies to grow our regions.

To grow Regional Victoria, we need to secure our youth’s educational pathways, continue reinforcing economic recovery opportunities and provide good returns on incentivised investment opportunities. By building our regions and incentivising careers that are future facing, all of Victoria will benefit.

Primary Recommendations

P16 Create a housing development scheme to expand housing supply and planning in Regional Victoria, that is supported by comprehensive Place Planning in regional and rural towns.
P17 Fund a targeted, industry-led ‘Work in the Regions’ initiative to encourage new regional Victorians and young people to work in shortage industries.
P18 Create an Agriculture Passport to allow seasonal employees to work across growers and farms, rather than being restricted to just one employer.
P19 Create a Regional Victorian Manufacturing Strategy and Fund to boost Victoria’s local manufacturing industry and capabilities.
P20 Commission a state-wide review of local content procurement processes in collaboration with State Government and at least six regional councils to drive regional business growth. 

View the VCCI Policy Scorecard: Pillar 4

 

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