The Greens will fight for a better future for our community, our state and our planet.
With more Greens in parliament, we can tackle the climate crisis, make housing affordable and hold the major parties to account.
Here's our plan for a better future for the seat of Albert Park, which includes the suburbs of Albert Park, Middle Park, Port Melbourne, St Kilda West, Southbank, South Melbourne, South Wharf, and parts of St Kilda.
100% renewable energy by 2030
The Greens will stop all new coal and gas projects, including gas drilling next to the 12 Apostles. We will fast-track the transition to 100% renewable energy and end native forest logging in 2023. We will support one million homes to get off gas, including in Albert Park. Find out more here.
More affordable housing
The Greens will build 200,000 new affordable homes, including homes for first home buyers and public housing, stop out of control rent rises, give renters more rights, end homelessness by 2030 and make property developers pay their fair share. Find out more here.
Invest in the arts, festivals and live music
The Greens will provide artists a living wage over three years, establish a $1 billion dollar Secure Art Fund for small and medium arts organisations, and provide $100 million per year for new festivals. In the Port Phillip area, this means we will remove barriers to live music, identify live music precincts and support the Live Music Action Plan. We will also support the St Kilda Festival, arts and other creative industries events. Find out more here.
Clean, plastic free beaches
While we have been successful in gaining progress on getting new single-use plastic bans and setting up a cash for cans scheme in Victoria, the Greens will not stop there. We’ll continue to fight against pointless single-use plastics to keep our beaches and oceans plastic free and our ocean wildlife safe.
We will ban more single-use plastics, including coffee cups, free plastic bags, excess packaging on fruit and veg, take away containers and fruit stickers, with a one year lead time to make sure alternatives are readily available. We’ll help cut bottled water use by installing water bubblers in shopping strips, parks and train stations across the state. And we’ll cut down single use plastic use further with refill stations for products like washing detergent in supermarkets. Find out more here.
Restore and protect beach foreshores and urban biodiversity
We all love our beach foreshore reserves, Albert Park Lake and the Westgate Park Wetlands are a local’s hidden gem. The Greens have committed to a $1 billion a year Zero Extinction Fund, which would protect the bush as well as restoring urban biodiversity, creating thousands of jobs in invasive species management, weeding, tree and vegetation planting and more. This fund will support, for example, the nearby Elsternwick Park, which was a former golf course, to be converted into a nature reserve rich in urban biodiversity. Find out more here.
Pollinator Corridor from Westgate Park to the Royal Botanic Gardens
The Greens have also announced an exciting vision for a connected corridor of pollinator-friendly gardens in Melbourne’s south, to boost native bees, insects, birds and biodiversity in our inner city. We will invest $1.2 million to create a continuous green link from Westgate Park in Port Melbourne to Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, to support the movement of pollinating insects – including native bees, butterflies, moths, dragonflies, and beetles – across inner Melbourne. Find out more about our Melbourne Pollinator Corridor here.
Livable and safe public housing
In Port Phillip Council, six per cent of the population live in social or public housing, however much of the housing is run down and in desperate need of refurbishment. As part of our Big Build of Affordable Housing, the Greens have committed $500m for upgrading and maintenance of public housing. That will benefit the following public housing estates which will be refurbished with quality facilities making them safer and livable:
- Emerald Hill Court Estate, South Melbourne
- Barak Beacon Estate, Port Melbourne
- Stokes Street walk-up, Port Melbourne
- Inkerman Heights Estate, St Kilda
- Pinaroo Village, St Kilda
- Bay-Nott Estate, Port Melbourne
- Park Towers, South Melbourne.
Find out more here.
Safe bike lanes
The Greens will invest $2.5 billion dollars to implement a ‘Big Bike Build’ with hundreds of kilometres of safe and separated bike superhighways across Melbourne. In Albert Park we will invest in more separated bike lanes, more bike lanes, and bike cages at every station. We’ll build a Bike Superhighway from Elsternwick to Coburg, travelling along some of Melbourne’s busiest and most dangerous routes, including St Kilda Road, Royal Parade, Flemington Road and Sydney Road. We’ll build a protected bike corridor, pedestrian crossing and landscaping on Inkerman Street between Hotham Street and St Kilda Road to improve safety and connectivity for riders.Find out more here.
More frequent, accessible trams, trains and buses
The Greens will invest $821.5 million in a massive increase in services, so trains and trams run every 5-10 minutes from 7am-7pm, seven days a week, and every 10 minutes in evenings and early mornings. We will create a solar-powered, high-frequency bus network so that residents also have fast, reliable public transport. Find out more here.
Electric vehicle charging stations
The Greens will scrap Labor’s tax on electric vehicles and make EVs more affordable with an eco-bonus of up to $15,000. We’ll install over 1000 more EV chargers, including across the Albert Park area at shopping villages including the Albert Park Village, South Melbourne Market, Coventry & Clarendon Streets, Fitzroy Street and Acland Street, Bay Street, and Victoria Ave. We’ll subsidise two-way solar chargers on homes and end petrol cars sales from 2030 to tackle the climate crisis. Find out more here.
Build Metro 2 train connection
The Greens will invest $100 million to fast-track planning and early works of the Metro 2 train tunnel, which would run from Clifton Hill to Newport via Parkville and Fishermans Bend. This new tunnel will allow higher frequency train services across the network and provide a direct route from Fishermans Bend to the city, university and hospital precinct in Parkville and to the north. View the route here.
More green space and parks
In Melbourne we are losing too many of our trees and green space creation isn't keeping up with our urbanisation. The Greens' value our green streets and parks. We want to create more livable neighbourhoods. We will:
- Ensure all medium and high density precincts need to provide 20 per cent green open space and 40 per cent canopy cover. This will apply immediately for new zones and be phased in for new development in existing built up zones such as South Bank
- Measures to reduce the loss of canopy cover on private land, including a mandatory developer tree planting contribution and a price on tree loss
- New minimum green space and tree cover requirements for urban development
- Mandatory green roofs and solar for apartment buildings of 5 storeys and above
- Restore the requirement for minimum garden areas at ground level.
Restore planning powers to communities
The Greens will put communities before property developer profits by restoring democracy in the planning system. We’ll ensure property developers can’t bypass the community and council on big developments and get approval straight from VCAT. Too often new developments provide maximum profits for the developer, with little community benefit, such as affordable housing, open space and community facilities. Find out more here.
Pedestrian safe streets
The Greens $2.5 billion dollars to implement a ‘Big Bike Build’ includes funding for pedestrian-friendly streets, which are essential to keep Albert Park healthy, liveable and safe. Our package will fund pedestrian signals at the following locations in Albert Park:
- On Williamstown Road at Beacon Road to support the new Port Melbourne Secondary College and at Raglan Street to replace the existing unsafe zebra crossing.
- At Blessington Street and Marine Parade in St Kilda, to support the Marina Development.
Better regulation of short-stays
The Greens will overhaul the regulation of short-stays in Victoria, in a bid to help address the state’s housing crisis and allow owner corporations to regulate short-stays in their own apartment buildings. The Greens are proposing:
- A cap on how many nights a year Victorians can rent out a property as a short-stay, of 180 days a year. This will encourage more people to rent their properties as long term rentals, rather than short-stays.
- Allowing owners corporations to regulate short-stays for properties that are not a host’s principal residence in their building. This will help ensure apartment dwellers aren't subject to parties in AirBnBs next door regularly.
- Setting up a mandatory register of short-stay operators.
Genuinely free, high quality public schools
The Greens have a plan for high quality, genuinely free, local public schools. We’ll invest $1.46 billion dollars into Victoria’s public schools and make public education genuinely free by removing out-of-pocket school expenses and ‘voluntary’ contributions for families. We will establish an independent school building authority, to ensure funding for upgrades are delivered transparently and based on need. Find out more here.
Fully funded public healthcare
The Greens will increase health funding by an extra $5 billion. We’ll free up hospital beds by investing in more aged care, disability and rehab beds outside hospitals. We’ll make it easier for people to see a free GP or community nurse, invest in preventative care, dental and mental health care, and give our hard-working public health workers better pay. So everyone can get the care they need.
Rainbow Action Plan
The Greens invest $200 million dollars in a Rainbow State Fund for LGBTIQA+ community-led organisations and an ‘Equality Bill’ for Victoria with greater rights to prevent all faith-based schools and organisations from discriminating against LGBTIQA+ students, staff and services users. It will also include expansion of anti-vilification laws. Find out more here.
Clean Air Zones and less trucks
The Greens want to see more trucks off our roads to ensure the health and safety of residents. We support investment in creating clean air zones and moving more freight onto rail.
Phasing out harmful pokies
The Greens will support Council to restrict the hours pokies venues can operate. We’ll also start the work to buy back pokies licences and phase out pokies.