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According to ABC News, One Nation has launched its campaign for the 2026 Victorian state election with a platform focused on law-and-order spending, financed through cuts to major projects and government bodies. Victorian leader Warren Pickering appeared with national leader Pauline Hanson and party candidates at the launch at Melbourne’s Crown Casino, where the ABC was not invited and was barred from entering.
The party’s 63-page policy booklet places crime measures at its centre. One Nation said it would recruit ADF veterans through an accelerated program to increase police numbers, use “carefully governed AI” to reduce administrative work, and offer sign-on bonuses and accommodation allowances. It also proposed tougher measures for violent young offenders, including lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 10, trying young people accused of serious violent crimes as adults, and making parents liable for fines and property damage caused by their children.
Its judicial proposals include more magistrates, a 24-hour bail court and three new magistrates’ courts in Melbourne’s outer suburbs. The party also pledged UK-style self-defence in the home laws and said it would explore a tightly controlled trial allowing legal access to capsicum spray.
One Nation said it would scrap the Suburban Rail Loop and redirect funding to projects including the Airport Rail line and electrification of the Melton line. It also proposed abolishing First Peoples’ representative body Gellung Warl, ending the statewide Treaty, reviewing public entities and agencies, and introducing expiry dates for those bodies. Its climate pledges include ending net-zero targets and subsidies, cancelling VNI West and the Western Renewables Link, reversing the ban on gas connections in new homes and repealing the statewide ban on nuclear energy. The party said it would wind back land tax increases and raise the payroll-tax threshold.
Government minister Nick Staikos dismissed the launch, saying the government would not make deals with One Nation. Opposition Leader Jess Wilson said the only way to change the government was to elect a Liberal and Nationals government. About two dozen protesters rallied outside Crown, with protester Julie Monteiro criticising Ms Hanson’s calls for an end to immigration.
