Family First targets Labor and Greens before Victoria poll
Family First Victoria chair Jane Foreman has urged centre-right parties and voters to stop treating each other as enemies before Victoria’s state election in November 2026.
At the Turning Point Australia election launch in Rowville on 28 August 2026, Foreman said Liberal, One Nation, Libertarian and Family First supporters should focus on defeating Labor and the Greens instead of attacking one another.
Foreman, who is also Family First’s candidate for South-Eastern Metropolitan Region, argued that Victoria could not afford what she called a “circular firing squad” among parties that agree on many of the state’s main problems.
“The Liberal Party, One Nation, the Libertarians and Family First will not agree on everything – and we do not need to,” she said.
She said each party starts from a different priority. Foreman described the Liberal Party as focused on competent government, economic opportunity and responsible financial management. She said One Nation begins with national sovereignty, Australian identity and national interests, while the Libertarians begin with individual liberty, personal responsibility and limited government.
Family First, she argued, starts “one step earlier – with the family”.
Foreman said strong families raise individuals, pass on what she called Australia’s national inheritance, create economic stability and build the responsibility needed to sustain freedom and limited government.
She also tied that argument to policy, saying Family First tests every proposal by asking whether it will strengthen families or weaken them.
Family First links households and business costs
The Rowville speech also focused on small and family business. Family First said 97.3% of Australian businesses are small businesses. It said they employ more than five million Australians, or about 42% of the private-sector workforce.
Foreman used those figures to argue that tax, compliance and power costs hit both workplaces and households, because many family businesses rely on savings, home mortgages and long hours from the same people who run them.
“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,” she said.
She said millions of families have invested savings, mortgaged homes and taken risks to create jobs and serve their communities.
Foreman also accused the Labor-Greens agenda of expanding government, increasing debt and energy costs, interfering with parental rights, burdening enterprise and imposing ideology through institutions.
Family First did not set out any new election policy, preference deal or campaign target in the 28 August statement. It also did not disclose a vote goal for South-Eastern Metropolitan Region.
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