Victorian Electoral Commission

Everyone deserves to be safe going to their job and doing their working day, whether they're a politician or not.

Victoria's Premier Ben Carroll says he's met with the Victorian Electoral Commission and confirmed there'll be additional security measures leading up to the election on November 28.

What has happened must be a turning point for political debate in Victoria and around Australia.

Dr Rob Manwaring is an associate professor specialising in political science and public policy at Flinders University.

And the disturbing thing is that the authorities who regulate political advertising seem to have been caught out on this.

I spent most of yesterday speaking to the Victorian Electoral Commission, the ACMA, to the Advertising Standards Authority, trying to find out what laws there might exist to hold these sort of people to account.

Now, the Electoral Commission seemed flummoxed.

I asked them about AI fakery yesterday and I'm still waiting for a reply.

The election is being closely watched, with the long-term Labor government struggling in the polls.

And thanks to the Victorian Electoral Commission, we've got a bit of insight into what the electorate looks like.

The commission releases statistics on the percentage of voters according to age, demographic, and this election, those categories sit along generational lines.

The biggest cohort happens to be in the under 25s, or that's Gen Y, and also known as millennials, and the other is Gen Z.

I think that's just the way [laughs] that we are at the moment.

So I think it would, would make a difference, and it would be good to be more educated on it.

So how much weight do the young guns have? Gen Z and Gen Y, so the under 45s, make up 44% of the vote, according to the Victorian Electoral Commission.

Compare that to 24% for Gen X and 32% over the age of 60, so that's the baby boomers and the silent generation.

Hey guys, Alana here from the Australian Democrats with a very special announcement.

The Australian Democrats are officially registered with the Victorian Electoral Commission and we will contest the Victorian state election this November, putting Democrats back on a Victorian state ballot for the first time in 20 years.

Twenty years is a long time in politics.

Governments have changed.

The case is expected to set a national precedent for the way fossil fuel approvals take global emissions and local climate change into account.

And Dave Hughes says he's been forced to stop speaking at Liberal Party events after a report to the Victorian Electoral Commission.

Hughes, who's been a vocal critic of Labor since Albanese's negative gearing and CGT changes, had been providing his speaking services free of charge in the lead-up to the Victorian election.

But because of what he usually charges for that service, it could be seen to be in breach of donation limits.

One Nation uses a nominal cost recovery model to do police and other checks on candidate nominees.

All candidate fees have been paid into the Victorian state campaign account in accordance with the Victorian Electoral Commission rules." [pensive music] As the next federal election approaches, One Nation is rapidly attempting to scale up its operation to accommodate their surging vote.

They're going to need more candidates, more volunteers, and more staff to match the trust and money that Australian voters, according to opinion polls, are going to place in them.

And according to the party, they've sorted out their problems of the past.