Significantly higher energy costs.. State debt racing toward $200 billion. Jane Foreman says enough is enough — it's time to put Victorian families before green politics.
Victorian households have faced electricity price rises totalling more than 20% since 2022 — with further increases confirmed from July 2025.
Behind that statistic is a mum in the western suburbs opening her power bill and wondering what to cut. A small business owner in Ballarat deciding whether to reduce staff hours. A retiree in Bendigo turning off the heater in winter. These are the real Victorians paying for the Allan government's ideological rush toward renewables — without a plan to keep the lights on affordably.
"The Allan government has chosen its ideology. Victorian families are paying the bill. Family First will choose families."
Victoria's problem is straightforward: the state has been shutting down reliable baseload power faster than affordable alternatives can replace it. Wholesale electricity prices spike. Retailers pass the cost on. Families and businesses have no choice but to pay. Meanwhile, the Allan government spends billions on a Suburban Rail Loop and hires six-figure diversity advisers — priorities completely disconnected from the kitchen-table crisis facing ordinary Victorians.
Family First's Jane Foreman is committed to an immediate lifting of the moratorium on gas exploration, legislation to keep coal fired power stations open until sufficient firm supply is available, and developing an energy policy built around family budgets rather than inner-city ideology.
"Every policy decision has a human cost. When the government blocks a gas project, that cost lands on a family's kitchen table. When it forces a power station to close before a viable replacement exists, it lands on a small business's bottom line. Family First will always count that cost before we act."
"Affordable energy is not a luxury. It is the foundation of family life. We will fight for it."
"I meet families every week who are doing everything right — working hard, budgeting carefully, putting their kids first — and still falling behind because of energy costs they can't control. That's not their failure. That's a failure of government. And it's exactly why I'm running."
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