Legislative Council · Eastern Victoria Region
Matt Green
Last verified 30 Sept 2026
Seat context — Eastern Victoria Region›
Eastern Victoria elects 5 MLCs and comprises 11 Legislative Assembly districts spanning the Mornington Peninsula through the Dandenongs to Gippsland — Bass, Evelyn, Gippsland East, Gippsland South, Hastings, Monbulk, Mornington, Morwell, Narracan, Nepean and Pakenham. A bill abolishing group voting tickets for the Council has passed the Assembly and is before the Legislative Council's 11–13 August sitting.
Background
Platform
Where they stand, issue by issue — grounded in 2026 Victorian polling, not assumed. Every position is tagged with how we know it.
No personal statement of priorities was found in the sources retrieved.
A safe and affordable Victoria for children to grow up in, with easy access to education, home ownership and starting a family, and concern about growing debt, crime and cost of living.
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
Sees the rising cost of living as a threat and wants a state that is affordable for young people.
Crime and community safety
Sees increasing crime as a threat and wants safer streets.
Housing affordability and supply
Wants it to be easy for young Victorians to buy a home.
State government debt and fiscal management
Sees Victoria's growing debt as a threat to the state's future.
Infrastructure and public transport delivery
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
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
Wants great education to be easy to access.
Health and healthcare access
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Urban planning and housing density
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Climate and energy transition
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Treaty and First Nations affairs
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Regional and rural Victoria
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
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.
Wikipedia's 2026 candidates table lists them under the Eastern Victoria Region for Liberal. RReported — WIKI-2026CANDSWikipedia, "Candidates of the 2026 Victorian state election"View source
No policy detail was retrieved, so all issues are left empty.
Their profile presents them as part of Jess Wilson's Liberal team, and the policies it names are the party's own plan rather than independent positions of theirs. SSelf-stated — LIBV-MATT-GREENLiberal Victoria, "Matt Green — Liberal candidate profile" (14 May 2026)View source
Track record & prior candidacies
Campaign, money & endorsements
Campaign logistics
Endorsements & Donations
Per the Victorian Electoral Commission's funding guidance (vec.vic.gov.au, accessed 2026-09-29 via search snippets of its independent-candidate and registered-party funding pages), a candidate is eligible for public election funding if they receive at least 4% of first-preference votes in their contest, or are elected. Funding is reimbursed against an audited statement of campaign expenditure, and advance funding must be repaid in full if the threshold is missed.
Green has not previously contested a state election on the sources retrieved, and the Liberals's earlier results in this region were not retrieved.