Legislative Assembly · District of Broadmeadows
Mutullah Can Yolbulan
Last verified 22 Sept 2026
Seat context — Broadmeadows›
The Legislative Assembly district of Broadmeadows covers roughly 47 km² in Melbourne's outer north, including Broadmeadows, Campbellfield, Coolaroo, Dallas, Fawkner, Jacana and Meadow Heights, plus parts of Glenroy, Roxburgh Park, Somerton and Westmeadows. It is one of Labor's safest seats, held by the party for almost all of its history since the district's creation in 1955. At the 2022 election Kathleen Matthews-Ward won it for Labor with 51.94% after distribution of preferences against the Liberal candidate.
Background
Says he helped organise and spoke at rallies outside Hume City Council calling for a council motion to divest from companies aiding Israel's actions in Gaza and to support Palestinian refugees. SSelf-stated — VS-YOLBULANVictorian Socialists, "Mutullah Can Yolbulan – Candidate profile"View source
Says he was part of a successful 2025 community campaign for Hume City Council to build a new park in Broadmeadows. SSelf-stated — VS-YOLBULANVictorian Socialists, "Mutullah Can Yolbulan – Candidate profile"View source
Says he has taken part in pickets in Campbellfield connected to Palestinian solidarity activism. SSelf-stated — VS-YOLBULANVictorian Socialists, "Mutullah Can Yolbulan – Candidate profile"View source
Currently lives in Jacana, within the Broadmeadows electorate. SSelf-stated — VS-YOLBULANVictorian Socialists, "Mutullah Can Yolbulan – Candidate profile"View source
Moved to Australia from Türkiye in 2013 to pursue higher education. SSelf-stated — VS-YOLBULANVictorian Socialists, "Mutullah Can Yolbulan – Candidate profile"View source
Platform
Where they stand, issue by issue — grounded in 2026 Victorian polling, not assumed. Every position is tagged with how we know it.
Elect representatives to stand against "the destructive profit-driven agenda of big business and its allies in all levels of government."
Cites deepening social inequality, stagnant wages, and deteriorating essential services in Melbourne's north.
Raises disappearing local parks, and inaccessible or cancelled services for young, elderly and migrant residents.
Opposes substandard rental housing conditions and state government cuts to public housing.
"I can't promise you we will win every fight but I can guarantee you that I will not give up."
What Victorians say matters most
5 poll-led issuesCost of living and crime have ranked 1st or 2nd in every Victorian poll since mid‑2025, with debt and housing close behind — see schema §3 for the polling this grouping is based on (DemosAU, Ipsos Issues Monitor, Roy Morgan). The 0-10 'priorityScore' on each candidate's issue entries is NOT a measure of true importance or an independent ranking of what a candidate actually cares about. It reflects how much detail and specificity exists in what that candidate has actually said publicly on that issue -- a named policy mechanism and a verified voting record score higher than a one-line stated priority, regardless of the issue's real-world weight. Render this distinction in the UI wherever the score appears; do not label it just 'Priority' without the qualifier.
Cost of living
Party platform (not candidate-specific): a "$100 trolley" scheme letting every household buy a week's groceries at cut prices, funded from supermarket profits rather than general taxation.
Party platform: an immediate cap on household electricity and gas bills, funded by windfall taxes on energy companies, and wiping existing household utility debts and arrears.
Party platform: make all public transport permanently free, funded by ending private operator contracts.
Crime and community safety
Party platform: raise the age of criminal responsibility to 16, with a presumption in favour of bail except where there is "an immediate and identifiable risk to a person's safety."
Party platform: frames crime as rooted in inequality rather than individual failing, favouring rehabilitative and restorative justice addressed through housing, jobs, education and health funding.
Party platform: disarm police on patrol, remove military-style weapons from police, reject AI/algorithmic policing, and establish an independent police ombudsman and a Royal Commission into policing and corruption.
Housing affordability and supply
Has raised substandard rental housing conditions and state government cuts to public housing as concerns specific to Broadmeadows.
Party platform: an immediate 25% cut to residential rents followed by a five-year freeze, then rent rises capped at half of CPI or wage growth, whichever is lower, enforced by a proposed Rental Inspectorate Victoria.
Party platform: build 15,000 new public housing units a year for at least ten years, and stop demolition of the 44 public housing towers in favour of refurbishing them.
Party platform: mandatory inclusionary zoning of 30% public housing on all private developments, a cap of two properties per owner, and a ban on owning more than five.
State government debt and fiscal management
Party platform rejects austerity, arguing Victoria has sufficient resources but unequal distribution; funds spending via a 10% annual wealth tax on billionaires and a 5% annual luxury property tax on the top 1% of residences.
Party platform: double payroll tax on large companies with wage bills over $5 million, a 20% bank profits tax on the five biggest banks, and a 20% super-profits tax on retailers earning over $100 million.
Party platform: raise mineral royalties from 2.75–10% to a flat 35%, and end Crown Casino's $1-a-year lease in favour of market rent.
Infrastructure and public transport delivery
Party platform: reverse privatisation of Victoria's trains, trams and buses to full public ownership, with turn-up-and-go frequency on high-frequency routes and some lines running through the night.
Party platform: extend rail to the northern and western growth corridors and build an orbital bus network connecting suburbs to each other, not only to the CBD.
Also on the record
6 substance issuesThese don't top “biggest issue” polling, but carry real 2026 policy weight and genuine differences between parties.
Education and training
Party platform: reduce class sizes to a maximum of 15 (from a current maximum of 25 in secondary and an average of 26 in primary), funding a "Gonski-plus" model for public school spending.
Party platform: hire 12,000 additional teachers and support staff across the state's 1,600 public schools, fully fund the AEU's log of claims in the 2026 Schools Agreement, and abolish VCE in favour of a holistic, strengths-based curriculum.
Party platform: abolish all university fees, reinstate free tertiary education, and boost TAFE funding so most VET providers are publicly funded and controlled.
Health and healthcare access
Has named insufficient healthcare services among his concerns for the electorate.
Party platform: lift public hospital beds to at least 3 per 1,000 Victorians, and raise healthcare worker wages at least 2.5% above inflation immediately and again in 2028.
Party platform: make ambulance services free by removing Ambulance Victoria membership requirements, and establish public community health centres with free GP, dental, mental health and allied-health access.
Urban planning and housing density
Has raised concern about local parks disappearing to residential development in Broadmeadows.
Party platform: mandatory 30% canopy tree coverage on new developments (doubled via levies in the western suburbs), and a permanent extension of Melbourne's Green Wedges to bar rezoning of farmland and green space.
Party platform: no-compensation public acquisition of land where owners unlawfully demolish heritage buildings, and developer liability for structural defects for 30 years.
Climate and energy transition
Party platform: bring Victoria's energy infrastructure back into public ownership — starting with distribution networks and extending to generation and retail — with no shareholder compensation.
Party platform: transition to a 100% renewable grid via offshore wind, utility-scale solar and wind, grid-scale batteries and pumped hydro, expanding the Neighbourhood Battery Initiative and rooftop solar on public housing and schools.
Party platform: cut emissions 75% below 2005 levels by 2030, reach a zero-carbon economy by 2035 and net-negative by 2040, and close the Loy Yang A power station by 2030 — five years early — with worker and community job guarantees.
Treaty and First Nations affairs
Party platform: treaty processes are "only meaningful if they deliver material change," not symbolic recognition alongside ongoing incarceration, child removal and dispossession.
Party platform: extend the powers of statewide and local treaties and support increased First Nations control over First Nations affairs; does not name the Gellung Warl representative body specifically.
Party platform: fund a reparations tax on commercial and investment properties, stolen-wages compensation, and recognition of 26 January as Invasion Day; implement the Yoorrook Justice Commission's and Bringing Them Home's recommendations.
Regional and rural Victoria
Party platform (statewide, not seat-relevant to outer-suburban Broadmeadows): a dedicated rural and regional roads maintenance program, and reversing rural population decline via public housing in regional "worker towns."
Local & party context
2 fieldsNot scored the way the eleven issues above are — these are fixed facts about the seat and the party, not positions with more or less emphasis behind them.
Has named deterioration of essential services in Melbourne's north, and a lack of services for young, elderly and migrant residents, as local concerns. SSelf-stated — VS-YOLBULANVictorian Socialists, "Mutullah Can Yolbulan – Candidate profile"View source
Has raised the loss of local parks to residential development, and substandard rental and public housing conditions, as specific to Broadmeadows. SSelf-stated — VS-YOLBULANVictorian Socialists, "Mutullah Can Yolbulan – Candidate profile"View source
Says he helped organise rallies outside Hume City Council for a motion to divest council investments connected to Israel and support Palestinian refugees, and was part of a successful 2025 campaign for a new Broadmeadows park. SSelf-stated — VS-YOLBULANVictorian Socialists, "Mutullah Can Yolbulan – Candidate profile"View source
His own stated concerns — public housing cuts, substandard rentals, parks lost to development, service gaps for young, elderly and migrant residents, and healthcare shortfalls — map directly onto the party's Housing, Urban Planning and Health platforms, closely aligned rather than a departure. SSelf-stated — VS-YOLBULAN, VS-HOUSING, VS-HEALTHVictorian Socialists, "Mutullah Can Yolbulan – Candidate profile"View sourceVictorian Socialists, "Housing for all"View sourceVictorian Socialists, "Fix the health crisis"View source
No candidate-specific numeric or mechanism-level commitments beyond the party's own were found; every detailed figure found (rent-freeze percentages, housing targets, tax rates, emissions targets) comes from the statewide policy pages, not a personal statement.
Track record & prior candidacies
Contested the Merlynston Creek Ward of Hume City Council in the October 2024 council election, one of nine candidates for one vacancy. VVerified — VEC-HUME2024Victorian Electoral Commission, "2024 Council Election Results — Hume City Council (Merlynston Creek Ward)" (2024)View source
Received 855 first-preference votes (7.78%) and was not elected; Karen Sherry won the seat with 33.29% first preferences, defeating Bassima Hawli 56.29%–43.71% after preference distribution. VVerified — VEC-HUME2024Victorian Electoral Commission, "2024 Council Election Results — Hume City Council (Merlynston Creek Ward)" (2024)View source
Did not contest the 2020 Hume City Council election, and no record found of contesting Merri-bek (formerly Moreland) City Council in 2024. VVerified — VEC-HUME2020, VEC-MERRIBEK2024Victorian Electoral Commission, "2020 Council Election Results — Hume City Council" (2020)View sourceVictorian Electoral Commission, "2024 Council Election Results — Merri-bek City Council" (2024)View source
Is not a prior candidate for the state district of Broadmeadows — the Victorian Socialists' 2022 Broadmeadows candidate was Omar Hassan (2,795 votes, 8.0%), not Yolbulan — and no record found of him contesting the federal Division of Calwell, which covers Broadmeadows. VVerified — WP-BROADMEADOWS-ELECTORATE, WP-CALWELLWikipedia, "Electoral district of Broadmeadows"View sourceWikipedia, "Division of Calwell"View source
His own Victorian Socialists profile does not mention the 2024 council run or any other prior candidacy, framing his political history purely as community activism rather than office-seeking before 2026. SSelf-stated — VS-YOLBULANVictorian Socialists, "Mutullah Can Yolbulan – Candidate profile"View source
Campaign, money & endorsements
Campaign logistics
Endorsements & Donations
Mutullah Can Yolbulan would be eligible for Victorian state election public campaign funding if he receives at least 4% of first-preference votes in Broadmeadows, or is elected. Funding is then calculated as the lesser of his audited campaign-expenditure statement or the statutory per-vote maximum — currently $7.70 per first-preference vote for Legislative Assembly candidates — with amounts indexed annually on 1 July per the Consumer Price Index.
As a Victorian Socialists candidate, any funding claim would be made through the party, which has been continuously registered with the VEC since 6 June 2018 (re-registered 7 November 2024) and remains in active status. No donation disclosure specific to him has been lodged with the VEC as of this date — the expected position for a non-incumbent candidate this early in the cycle (per the VEC's own funding guidance, accessed 2026-09-22).