Victorian Policy

Education and Parental Rights

  • Protect parental consent and freedom of belief in school curricula.
  • Support home-schooling and independent education providers.
  • De-politicise curriculum content and ban ideological indoctrination.
  • Link funding to educational outcomes, not bureaucratic input.
  • Prioritise reading, writing, mathematics, science, history and civics, including explicit instruction and systematic phonics.
  • Teach practical financial literacy and publish a clear year-by-year curriculum.
  • Improve teacher training, school behaviour support and pathways through trade schools and apprenticeships.
  • Examine a student-directed funding model that allows parental choice across government, independent, faith-based and eligible home education, while addressing accountability.
  • Protect appropriate parental notice on significant school matters and fair employment protections for faith-based schools.

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Families and Education

Defend traditional family structures and parental authority, consider a childcare subsidy that follows a child and household income splitting, and link funding to educational outcomes.

Family and Community Institutions

Defend traditional family structures and parental authority, reinstate biological definitions in law and policy, and protect faith-based charities and community services.

Civil Liberties and Judicial Fairness

Introduce the Equality of Arms Principle and a Public Justice Equality Scheme, review advocates’ immunity and protect freedom of speech, conscience and religious practice.

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