Powering Victoria’s Future

The Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has released our 2022 State Election Platform, Powering Victoria’s Future.

It follows extensive consultation with businesses across all sectors around Victoria over the past 12 months including metropolitan and regional roundtable meetings, focus groups, member surveys and the 2021 Victoria Summit which brought together business, education, unions and other key sectors.

As Victoria’s peak business group representing 50,000 members and clients, the Victorian Chamber’s State Election Platform includes 61 recommendations covering four key pillars:

1. Strengthening Victoria’s jobs and skills
2. Building Victoria as the best state to operate a business
3. Driving Victoria’s economy
4. Growing Regional Victoria

The recommendations to power Victoria’s future include:

• Develop a standardised microcredential framework to enable the rapid reskilling and upskilling of the workforce.
• Commit to drive towards zero youth unemployment by 2026 and implement a careers strategy in primary and secondary school curriculum to equip students with the knowledge and tools to make informed skilling and career choices.
• Increase the payroll tax threshold from $750,000 to $1.2 million across Victoria to be comparable with NSW’s payroll tax rate and decrease the rate from 1.21 per cent to zero in Regional Victoria to increase regional attractiveness for business investment and growth.
• Allow businesses seeking to pre-qualify as suppliers to the Victorian Government to fulfil screening requirements via a single form to streamline procurement processes.
• Fund Visit Victoria to develop a detailed 10-year experience economy strategy to restore and retain Victoria’s reputation for great experiences focusing on tourism and events.
• Create and fund a 10-year Victorian Manufacturing Strategy to boost Victoria’s local manufacturing in existing and emerging industries.
• Create a housing development scheme to expand housing supply and planning in Regional Victoria.