A group of teachers and education support staff - members of Victorian Socialists who, as part of the Socialists in Schools union group, have played a leading role in the rank-and-file rebellion within the AEU - will be running a targeted campaign in this November’s state election challenging eight sitting Labor MPs, including Premier and former Minister for Education Ben Carroll.
Victorian Socialists
In this November’s state election we’re running candidates across Victoria to make sure everyone has the chance to vote socialist and make a stand against the capitalist major parties and the far-right, anti-worker politics of One Nation.
Victorian Socialists launch statewide election campaign
The following is the text, edited for clarity, of a speech by Victorian Socialists secretary Corey Oakley at the party’s state election campaign launch on Saturday, 1 August. The launch, held at the Aborigines Advancement League in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury, was attended by around 800 party members
Van Thanh Rudd – Victorian Socialists
I’m running in this election because I want to shake up the system and flip it the other way round and put people first, not profit.
Vic Labor delivers second-rate deal that leaves public schools shortchanged | The Australian Greens
The Victorian Greens have criticised the Carroll Labor Government for celebrating a school funding deal that leaves public school students waiting years longer than promised for the bare minimum funding they need.
Victorian teachers are to be the best paid in Australia. A union rebellion helped seal the deal
Salaries will rise 28.3% to 32.4% over four years, an outcome partly shaped by a rank-and-file revolt within the Australian Education Union
CAMPAIGN WIN - Stop Victoria's fake party rort
CAMPAIGN WIN!Thanks to you, the Victorian government has SCRAPPED group voting tickets, meaning fake right-wing parties will no longer be able to funnel votes…
Launching the 2026 State Election Fighting Fund! – Victorian Socialists
This November, Victorian Socialists will run candidates across Victoria in the biggest campaign we've ever mounted. We've launched the State Election Fighting Fund to raise $250,000 from members and supporters — a major contribution to what will be a massive electoral effort. We want to hit that target before the end of September.
Jasmine Duff – Victorian Socialists
We’ve seen how Labor and the Liberals treat ordinary people, and there’s no hope in waiting for them to change. Real change always comes from the bottom up.
Victorian State Voting Intention: L-NP (26%) and ALP (26%) level on primary and ahead of One Nation (23.5%); however, L-NP narrowly leads ALP on two-party preferred basis (51% cf. 49%) - Roy Morgan Research
In early August the L-NP Coalition 26% (up 2% since April) and ALP 26% (up 0.5%) are level on primary vote ahead of One Nation 23.5% (down 1%) and 24.5% (down 1.5%) support Other Parties and Independents including the Greens 12.5% (down 1%), Other Parties 4% (unchanged) and Independents 8% (down 0.5%) according to a special SMS Roy Morgan Poll conducted from August 5-7, 2026, with a representative Victoria-wide cross-section of 2,084 electors.
Victorian Greens launch $18 billion ‘Fair Share’ Plan and make election pitch to young people and voters fed up with the major parties | The Australian Greens
Victorian Greens Leader Ellen Sandell will use the party’s Campaign Conference on Saturday to make the Greens’ clearest pitch yet to young people and voters fed up with the major parties, declaring the Greens are ‘not just here to pressure Labor, we’re here to
Victoria is about to have the most unpredictable election in living memory
Much has been written about the rise of Pauline Hanson's One Nation in the past 12 months. The Victorian election will give us our best look yet at the decline of the two-party system.
Poll shows Hanson’s ‘bomb throwing’ could help Victorian Liberals
Labor’s Ben Carroll could become one of the state’s shortest-serving premiers, with the latest poll suggesting voters will elect a conservative government.
Three oppositions are contesting Victoria's election. The premier leads one
With voters flocking to One Nation and Premier Ben Carroll doing all he can to distance himself from his predecessors, Victoria is gearing up for an unusual election in eight weeks' time.
Populist performance and the working class: the discursive and symbolic appeals of One Nation in the competition for ‘Aussie Battlers’
Since 2016, Pauline Hanson's One Nation has positioned itself as the party of ‘Aussie Battlers’ and workers. While One Nation's exclusionary populist messaging is well-documented, this paper examin...
Victorian teachers vote in favour of new pay deal after long dispute
The Australian Education Union says 79 per cent of its members voted to endorse the latest pay offer from the government.
Making Victoria's Elections Fairer and More Transparent
“Fair elections are the bedrock of democracy, and we are delivering these reforms to ensure Victorians can be confident in their electoral processes.”
