Legislative Assembly · District of Glen Waverley
Brad Cox
Last verified 11 Oct 2026
Seat context — Glen Waverley›
Glen Waverley is a marginal seat in Melbourne's east, recreated at the 2021 redistribution, with a diverse, multicultural population that includes a significant Chinese-Australian community. Labor's John Mullahy won it in 2022 with 40.6% of first preferences and 53.3% to 46.7% two-party-preferred against sitting Liberal MP Neil Angus, a notional Labor gain. Mullahy is recontesting. The 2026 field is four candidates: Mullahy, the Liberals' Jacky Sun, the Greens' Toyo White and the Victorian Socialists' Nicholas Siow (whom Wikipedia's candidates table labels independent). An earlier pass recorded that Sun drew scrutiny in August 2026 over a campaign-recruitment program aimed at international students, but the underlying report could not be retrieved for this pass.
Background
Describes himself as a former producer of International Emmy Award-winning television, a content strategist and business leader with more than 35 years of experience in Australia and overseas. SSelf-stated — ON-COXOne Nation Victoria, "Brad Cox for Glen Waverley"View source
Says his career began at 23, when he and a friend opened a shop on Melbourne's Bourke Street, and that he later worked as a tour coordinator for a major music artist. SSelf-stated — ON-COXOne Nation Victoria, "Brad Cox for Glen Waverley"View source
Says his television work took him around the world with sporting organisations including FIBA, FIFA and the IAAF, and that he worked on US prime-time programs such as The Amazing Race. SSelf-stated — ON-COXOne Nation Victoria, "Brad Cox for Glen Waverley"View source
Says that in recent years he has focused increasingly on helping people in the NDIS community and advocating for Australians struggling with complex systems and bureaucracy. No independent record of these roles or the Emmy credit was found in this pass. SSelf-stated — ON-COXOne Nation Victoria, "Brad Cox for Glen Waverley"View source
Says he is a father of a 16-year-old son and has been married for 17 years to his Indonesian wife, who became an Australian citizen earlier this year. SSelf-stated — ON-COXOne Nation Victoria, "Brad Cox for Glen Waverley"View source
The party profile does not state any residence in, or tie to, Glen Waverley; the contact address given is the party's Pakenham office. SSelf-stated — ON-COXOne Nation Victoria, "Brad Cox for Glen Waverley"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.
From his party profile: faster emergency care, shorter hospital waits and better access to treatments.
Safer streets, safer public transport and a safer CBD.
A less bureaucratic education system focused on core subjects and fundamentals.
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 a Cox-specific statement): wind back Labor's land tax increases on rental properties and small property owners, lift the payroll tax threshold so more small employers are exempt, and abolish the 10 per cent stamp duty on home, contents and car insurance.
Party platform also pledges 12 months without stamp duty on setting up new business entities, and cheaper energy bills as part of a "Lower taxes. Cheaper energy. Affordable housing." plan.
Crime and community safety
Says that, as the father of a 16-year-old son, he is passionate about safer streets, safer public transport and a safer CBD. He gives no specific measures himself.
Party platform aims to make Victoria "the toughest state on crime in Australia": a presumption against bail for repeat offenders and those offending on bail, mandatory supervised bail for serious offences, a 24/7 bail court, and a mandatory minimum sentence for assaulting police, paramedics, nurses or firefighters.
Party platform also proposes sentencing serious child offenders as adults, returning the age of criminal responsibility to 10, and a ninety-day clock from charge to trial for serious violent charges.
Housing affordability and supply
Party platform (not a Cox-specific statement): review fees and charges on new homes, release under-used government land, set a legal clock on planning and building approvals, free up granny flats and spare-room rentals, and raise the foreign purchaser duty on residential property.
The booklet attributes rising rents partly to rapid population growth driven by net overseas migration.
State government debt and fiscal management
Party platform (not a Cox-specific statement): cancel the Suburban Rail Loop and redirect its funding, cut the top layer of the public service while protecting frontline roles, introduce agency sunset reviews, and apply a two-out, one-in rule to regulation.
The party also promises a public site, YourMoney.vic.gov.au, listing all government spending, and Royal Commissions into the Big Build and the COVID response.
Infrastructure and public transport delivery
Party platform (not a Cox-specific statement): cancel the Suburban Rail Loop, which the booklet says returns 60 to 70 cents per dollar spent, and instead electrify the Melton line, complete the Airport Rail Link and finish regional track duplication.
The party would also build new Magistrates' Courts at Melton, Epping and Pakenham. Glen Waverley sits on the Suburban Rail Loop's planned route; Cox has not been found commenting on it himself.
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
Says the education system has become unnecessarily bureaucratic and wants a return to core subjects and the fundamentals so students gain the skills and knowledge to succeed.
Party platform: a knowledge-rich, sequenced syllabus replacing the Victorian Curriculum, systematic phonics and explicit instruction, expanded trade schools, and school vouchers so funding follows the student.
Health and healthcare access
Says he endured the COVID hotel lockdown and 18-hour waits in emergency departments, and believes Australians deserve faster emergency care, shorter hospital wait times and better access to essential treatments.
Party platform: statewide interoperable electronic medical records, a real-time view of surgical waiting lists, nurse-led discharge and nurse prescribing, extra transitional and respite capacity to ease ramping, and a regional healthcare guarantee including 24/7 emergency departments.
Urban planning and housing density
Party platform (not a Cox-specific statement): require genuine community consultation before high-rise development is imposed on established suburbs, and set a legal clock on planning approvals.
Climate and energy transition
Party platform (not a Cox-specific statement): scrap all net-zero targets and subsidies, cancel VNI West and other large transmission projects, back coal power upgrades, and reverse the ban on new gas connections.
The party would also repeal Victoria's nuclear energy prohibition, ban industrial solar, wind and battery projects on irrigated, flood-prone, bushfire-prone or water-catchment land, and disband the Western Renewable Energy Zone.
Treaty and First Nations affairs
Party platform (not a Cox-specific statement): scrap the Statewide Treaty entirely, abolish Gellung Warl and end its legislated funding, which the booklet puts at about $70 million a year rising 2.5 per cent annually.
Regional and rural Victoria
No statement from Cox found; the party's platform has a regional section (water, forestry, roads, fisheries), but it is not specific to this metropolitan seat.
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.
His stated priorities (health access, community safety, education basics) sit within One Nation Victoria's "Restore Safety, Restore Prosperity, Restore Trust" policy booklet. No statement diverging from the party platform was found. SSelf-stated — ON-COX, ON-BOOKOne Nation Victoria, "Brad Cox for Glen Waverley"View sourceOne Nation Victoria, "The Real Deal: One Nation's Policy Platform (policy booklet, October 2026)" (2026-10)View source
Almost everything on record for him on specific policy is the party's own booklet rather than his own words, so the positions above are largely party-line. SSelf-stated — ON-COX, ON-BOOKOne Nation Victoria, "Brad Cox for Glen Waverley"View sourceOne Nation Victoria, "The Real Deal: One Nation's Policy Platform (policy booklet, October 2026)" (2026-10)View source
Track record & prior candidacies
Campaign, money & endorsements
Campaign logistics
Endorsements & Donations
Eligible for public funding if he is elected or receives at least 4% of first-preference votes in Glen Waverley, per the VEC's own funding guidance, accessed 2026-10-11.
Payment is based on his first-preference votes at a set per-vote rate (indexed annually to CPI), capped at his audited campaign expenditure, and must be claimed within 20 weeks of the election. Any advance funding is repayable if he does not reach the threshold.