Vic Gender Equality Policy tracker

Victorians deserve a future with quality services that care for us - wherever we live, and whatever we’re going through. But right now, large corporations are putting profits before people, and buying political influence to protect their interests and keep profiting at our expense.

With the Victorian election just weeks away, it's time to find out which candidates are prepared to put people before profits — and who is committed to fight for the quality services and support Victorians deserve.

Find out using Fair Agenda's gender equality policy tracker:

Fair Agenda members voted to focus on six critical areas where political leadership is needed to deliver a fairer, safer and more gender-equal Victoria. And the Fair Agenda team has worked with policy experts to identify the actions needed to advance them in the next parliament.

Our new tracker shows where candidates stand on actions needed to advance six key areas: abortion access, specialist safety services, support for victim-survivors, caring communities, safe and affordable housing, and Treaty.

The Fair Agenda team sent these questions to candidates and party headquarters weeks ago. While we’ve received strong commitments from some parties and uncovered alarming positions from others, we’re still waiting to hear back from Labor and the Liberals.

Right now, our tracker captures public statements by Labor, Liberal and National Parties on all six issues – but there are still too many areas where their position remains unknown.

Particularly on protecting abortion laws and access – which is treated by these parties as an individual ‘conscience’ vote (which means knowing where each candidate stands is absolutely vital).

You can help build the pressure on the parties and candidates who have yet to respond to Fair Agenda’s gender equality policy survey. Here’s how:

Look up your electorate: Head to the tracker website, enter your address in the search tool and see which of your local candidates are committed to act.
Ask candidates with unknown positions to step up: If you click on any candidate who hasn’t responded to the survey, there’s a quick and easy tool you can use to send them an email asking them to commit to act, or at the very least - make their position clear.

Every email is an opportunity to show candidates that people in their electorate are paying attention and that abortion access, women’s safety, caring communities, housing and protecting Treaty are key issues for voters in their electorate.

Together we can demand our representatives champion systems that care for everyone.