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28 August 2026
Labor And The Greens Are The Real Threat: Not Like-Minded Parties
Family First’s Jane Foreman has urged like-minded parties and voters to stop treating one another as the enemy and instead focus on defeating the Labor-Greens political agenda at Victoria’s November state election.
Speaking at the Turning Point Australia election launch in Rowville, Family First Victoria Chair and South-Eastern Metropolitan Region candidate Jane Foreman said Victoria could not afford a “circular firing squad” among parties that agree on many of the state’s most serious problems.
“The Liberal Party, One Nation, the Libertarians and Family First will not agree on everything - and we do not need to,” Mrs Foreman said.”
““But the common threat to the country we love is not found among like-minded parties and voters who are trying to restore freedom, responsibility and common sense.”
““It is the Labor-Greens political agenda that continues to expand government, drive up debt and energy costs, interfere with parental rights, burden enterprise and impose ideology through our institutions.
Mrs Foreman said each of the centre-right parties brought a valuable perspective to the political debate
“The Liberal Party traditionally begins with competent government, economic opportunity and responsible financial management.
“One Nation begins with national sovereignty, Australian identity and the defence of our national interests.
“The Libertarians begin with individual liberty, personal responsibility and limited government.
“Family First begins one step earlier - with the family.”
Mrs Foreman said the family raises the individual, passes on Australia’s national inheritance, creates economic stability and develops the responsibility needed to sustain freedom and limited government.
“Good government depends upon good citizens. National renewal depends upon one generation faithfully preparing the next. Freedom depends upon people capable of exercising responsibility and self-control.
“All three begin in strong families.
“That is why Family First asks one fundamental question of every policy: will this strengthen families - or weaken them?”
Family First also highlighted the contribution of Australia’s small and family businesses, describing them as the practical backbone of the economy.
97.3% of Australian businesses are small businesses, employing more than five million Australians - approximately 42% of the private-sector workforce.
“Behind those figures are millions of families who have invested their savings, mortgaged their homes, worked long hours and taken enormous risks to create employment and serve their communities,” Mrs Foreman said.
“In a family business, the business budget and the household budget are often inseparable. Every new tax, compliance burden and increase in energy costs eventually arrives at the family kitchen table.
“Labor and the Greens too often treat business owners as a source of revenue or another activity to regulate. Family First sees them as families creating opportunity, independence and prosperity.
“We will stand for lower taxes, affordable and reliable energy, less unnecessary red and green tape and government that values enterprise instead of punishing it.”
Mrs Foreman rejected claims that voting for a smaller party was a wasted vote.
Victoria uses preferential voting, allowing Victorians to put Family First first while ranking other centre-right candidates according to the applicable voting rules.
“Your number-one vote is counted first for Family First. It tells every political party that family, life, faith, freedom and parental rights are electoral priorities - not negotiable afterthoughts.
“Putting Family First first does not mean helping Labor or the Greens. Your preferences can continue according to Victoria’s electoral rules if our candidate is not elected.
“But only your first preference records your deliberate support for Family First.”
Where a candidate or Upper House group is elected or reaches the required four per cent of first-preference votes, that support may also help Family First qualify for public campaign funding.
“That funding helps us contest future elections, communicate with more Victorians and build an enduring political voice for families,” Mrs Foreman said.
“A growing Family First vote also changes the incentives of every other party. It encourages like-minded parties to strengthen their positions if they want to earn the support of family-minded voters.
“Vote 1 Family First therefore does three things: it helps elect us, helps build us and helps move the entire political conversation in a more family-friendly direction.”
Mrs Foreman said Family First would work constructively with other parties when principles aligned.
“We are not seeking to weaken our friends. We are seeking to strengthen the cause.
“Our political opponents benefit when like-minded parties spend all their energy attacking one another. Victoria’s families need us to remember what is at stake and who is driving the state in the wrong direction.
“Family First will provide the clear and courageous voice needed to ensure that marriage, family, life, faith, freedom, parental rights and family enterprise are never pushed to the margins again.
“Stronger families mean stronger communities, a stronger economy and a stronger nation.
“That is why we say: Stronger families. Stronger Victoria.”
Mrs Foreman says that Family First is needed in the Legislative Council after November to hold any future government to account.
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