Energy

Victoria is an energy-rich state sitting on coal, gas and uranium, yet too many families cannot afford to turn the heater on. That is a policy failure, not a resource problem: net-zero ideology and the decision to send Victorian gas interstate and overseas while households here pay the price.

Our Policies

Power Bills

Nuclear Energy

Data Centres & Storage

Environment

Power Bills

What we will do:

Scrap all net-zero targets and subsidies. Energy policy will be judged on price, reliability and what is best for Victorian families and industry, not on ideology.
Cancel VNI West, WRL and other multi-billion-dollar large-scale transmission projects driven by the net-zero agenda. These projects drive up network charges on every power bill, lock in higher system costs, damage productive farmland and regional communities, and are unnecessary when Victoria prioritises reliable local generation and existing transmission infrastructure.
Provide long-term industry security to encourage investment into upgrading coal power infrastructure.
Give Victorian household and industrial demand first call on Victorian gas. Genuine surplus can still be exported. We will not run a rigid reservation that damages local producers who mainly supply the domestic market. The principle is simple: Victorians come first.
Price discipline: the price paid by Victorian users should not be higher than the export price. If gas is cheaper in Tokyo than in Traralgon, the system is broken.
Support continued exploration for commercial offshore gas reserves so Victoria maintains long-term supply.
Reverse the ban on gas connections in new homes. Victorians should be free to choose the energy source that works best for them.

Victoria has the resources. What has been missing is a government prepared to put Victorian households and manufacturers first.

Nuclear Energy

Victoria’s nuclear ban is outdated, ideological, and blocks the state from even considering one of the most reliable forms of baseload power. Australia has more than a quarter of the world’s known uranium reserves, yet Victorian law still forbids the use of nuclear technology. One Nation will change that.

What we will do:

Repeal the Nuclear Activities (Prohibitions) Act 1983.
End Victoria’s state ban on nuclear energy so the state can consider modern nuclear technology as part of a proper, technology-neutral energy mix.

Reliable, affordable power should not be ruled out by a four-decade-old prohibition.

Data Centres & Battery Storage

Victoria is seeing a rush of large data centres and battery storage proposals. Data centres draw heavy power and cooling water. Large batteries raise fire and amenity questions when they sit near homes. Both have too often been pushed through facilitation pathways that leave communities without a real say.

Labor’s late 150-metre buffer and industry carve-outs do not fix applications already lodged beside neighbourhoods. They do nothing for farming families watching prime land absorbed by industrial energy projects.

Communities and productive land come first. Households should not carry the grid stress, water risk or planning surprises of big-tech and battery projects. The same principle we apply to industrial renewables on farmland applies here: communities and productive land come first.

What we will do:

Ban new data centres and large battery storage on prime agricultural land. Food-producing land is not a dumping ground for power-hungry industrial sites and batteries.
Assess community impact before a major project proceeds: energy demand, water for cooling and operations, drinking-water catchments, fire risk, noise and traffic, and publish the assessment.
Require genuine community consultation before approval near homes. Facilitation pathways that bypass local voice will be scrapped.
No retrospective carve-outs. Residents already living next to a proposed or expanding campus get the same protection as anyone else. A buffer announced after the application is lodged is not a buffer.
Protect residential amenity with siting rules and buffers from homes. Site large batteries to fire-service standards, not developer convenience.
Protect drinking water. Where cooling water is required, use recycled or non-drinking supply. Do not treat the tap as an industrial coolant.
Align this with farmland protection: no compulsory acquisition for industrial energy sprawl that treats regional Victoria as spare dirt.

Data centres and large batteries should not override neighbourhoods, farms or the household power bill. One Nation will put Victorians first.

Environment

Victoria’s natural environment is an asset that must be managed properly for the benefit of local communities, agriculture, tourism, and future generations. Good environmental policy is practical. It prioritises prevention of bushfires, protection of water quality, responsible land management, and continued public access to forests and parks.

What we will do:

Bushfire and land management

Reintroduce proper fire breaks and back-burning as core bushfire prevention tools.
Allow controlled firewood collection in appropriate areas.
Strengthen early warning systems and floodplain management.
Support practical, on-ground management by the people who live and work in these landscapes.

Energy projects and rehabilitation

Require full rehabilitation bonds on every energy project so the cost of decommissioning and site restoration falls on the proponent, not the landholder or the taxpayer.
Protect productive agricultural land, water catchments, and high-risk areas from incompatible industrial energy development.

Water quality and pest species

Improve water quality monitoring, including testing for PFAS (“forever chemicals”) in domestic water catchments.
Pursue eradication programs for European carp and redfin that damage native waterways.

Public access

Defend public access to national parks and state forests.
Oppose the Great Forest National Park and any proposal that locks out hunters, four-wheel drivers, trail bike riders and horse riders, climbers, and fossickers from state forest.

Victoria’s environment is best protected by practical management, not by locking people out or covering productive land with industrial infrastructure. One Nation will focus on what works on the ground.