Over the past 12 years, the Victorian Labor Government has built a long track record of avoiding independent assessment and scrutiny of its policies and administration. Examples include:-

• Lack of public business plans and independent external cost-benefit assessments of major projects such as the NE Link, Suburban Rail Loop, Westgate Tunnel, and even the Grand Prix.
• Failure to reform and strengthen IBAC in comprehensive and timely fashion
• No proper funding of FOI, IBAC, the Auditor General, and the Victorian Ombudsman
• Failure to respond properly to widespread evidence of rorting and corruption on major projects
• An election funding deal between the major parties that has since been struck down by the High Court because it was fundamentally unfair. 

Whether Labor’s major projects and policies are good or bad is immaterial - the fact is, they were not consistently independently tested beforehand, and the community was not given the ability to make its own informed assessment of their merits. 

And the Liberals are no better. They are equally responsible for the electoral funding debacle. And their Fisherman’s Bend rezoning was disastrous and corrupt - and remains unfixed after 12 years of Labor pushing paperwork around without any funding to make it actually happen.

Major parties can no longer be trusted to establish and follow due process to allow for informed decision-making. 

If elected, I will push for:-

• • Openness and Transparency as a base standard for government in Victoria
  • A Parliamentary Ethics Committee
  • Mandatory independent assessment of major projects as a condition of approval
  • Increased funding for IBAC, the Police, and FOI programs to allow them to effectively undertake their duties.