Billy Brown also criticised the employment of migrants in occupations such as ride-share driving, pizza-making and vape shop retail.

Another major change is the extension of mandatory gas and electrical safety checks to all rental properties, including both new and existing agreements.

“Migrants work hard and they pay taxes. They add to the bottom line and they lift our ambitions as a country by expanding our sense of what is possible.”

People dropping or reducing their cover could add pressure to Australia’s already stretched public health system.

Community advocate Rakesh Raizada has announced he intends to contest Victoria’s November state election as an independent candidate for the Legislative Council’s Western Metropolitan...

“Continuing to delay elections undermines the prospects of a two-state solution.”

Before I finish, I want to leave you with one final thing,” Wilson told the gathering.

The party is campaigning under the message “A Safer, Stronger and Fairer Victoria” and has nominated cost-of-living pressures, community safety and housing as its main areas of focus.

But the union webpage does not identify the poll, provide field dates, publish a seat projection or explain the modelling behind that claim.

It also wants to strip cross-curriculum priorities, including Indigenous histories and cultures, sustainability and engagement with Asia, from some core subjects