Legislative Assembly · District of Mill Park
Arthur Tsoutsoulis
Last verified 11 Oct 2026
Seat context — Mill Park›
Mill Park is a very safe Labor seat in Melbourne's north, held by Labor since its 2002 creation, that is an open contest in 2026. Sitting MP Lily D'Ambrosio, Australia's longest-serving energy minister and MP for the seat since 2002, announced on 30 July 2026 that she will not recontest and is stepping down from Cabinet, following a Labor leadership change. The 2026 field is Labor's Elizabeth Nealy, the Liberals' Joel Drysdale, the Greens' Binoy Zacharias and the Victorian Socialists' Jesse Lambourn. At the 2022 election D'Ambrosio won 49.9% of first preferences and 61.6% two-party-preferred against the Liberals' Paige Yap.
Background
Traffic and transport engineer and civil project manager, with "more than 20 years' experience" per One Nation Victoria's candidate profile. SSelf-stated — ON-TSOUTSOULISOne Nation Victoria, "Arthur Tsoutsoulis for Mill Park"View source
Two Greek Australian community outlets repeat the same description of more than 20 years in traffic and transport engineering and civil project management, apparently drawn from the party's material. No employer or professional-register entry was found to confirm it independently. RReported — GREEKHERALD-1026, GCT-1026The Greek Herald, "Four Greek Australians contest Victorian seats for One Nation" (8 Oct 2026)View sourceGreek City Times, "Four Greek Australians Stand for Pauline Hanson's One Nation in Victoria" (9 Oct 2026)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.
Honest government: "transparency on funding, debt, and the information the public is given."
Locally: safer roads, renewed road infrastructure, stronger community safety, and support for local business and local jobs.
Cost of living, affordable housing and homelessness, and an end to "layer upon layer of state taxes on assets people have already paid for."
Greek Australian press coverage of One Nation's Victorian launch summarises his priorities as government transparency, road infrastructure, community safety, local businesses and cost-of-living pressures.
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
Candidate profile names cost of living and "layer upon layer of state taxes on assets people have already paid for" as a campaign focus; no candidate-specific detail beyond that.
Party platform (not a candidate-specific statement): wind back Labor's land tax increases on rental properties and small property owners, lift the payroll tax threshold, and abolish the 10 per cent stamp duty on home, contents and car insurance.
Party platform: remove stamp duty on the establishment of new business entities for 12 months, and apply a "two out, one in" rule to new regulatory requirements.
Crime and community safety
Candidate profile lists "stronger community safety" as a local priority; no personal policy detail found.
Party platform: make Victoria "the toughest state on crime in Australia" through a presumption against bail for repeat offenders and those offending on bail, mandatory supervised bail for listed serious offences, a 24/7 Bail Court, and a ninety-day clock from charge to trial for serious violent charges.
Party platform: serious violent child offenders sentenced as adults, the age of criminal responsibility returned to 10, mandatory minimum sentences for assaults on police and emergency workers, and cumulative sentencing for multiple victims.
Party platform: build three new Magistrates' Courts at Melton, Epping and Pakenham, and double judicial registrars from 18 to 36.
Media coverage of the October 2026 launch reported that crime and bail reform featured in One Nation's announcements, with leader Warren Pickering calling for more police on the streets.
Housing affordability and supply
Candidate profile names affordable housing and homelessness as an area for action, without detail.
Party platform: review every government fee, tax and charge on new homes, release under-used government land, put a legal clock on planning and building approvals, and free up granny flats and spare-room rentals.
Party platform: raise the foreign purchaser duty on residential property, and require genuine community consultation before high-rise development in established suburbs. It attributes rental pressure partly to net overseas migration.
State government debt and fiscal management
Candidate profile puts "transparency on funding, debt" at the centre of his campaign for honest government.
Party platform: cancel the Suburban Rail Loop, cut the executive layer of the public service, introduce agency sunset reviews, and build a public "YourMoney.vic.gov.au" site publishing every dollar of government spending and every project variation.
Party platform: hold Royal Commissions into the Big Build and into Victoria's COVID response.
Infrastructure and public transport delivery
Candidate profile lists safer roads and renewed road infrastructure as local priorities, consistent with his stated traffic and transport engineering background. No specific local project is named.
Party platform: cancel the Suburban Rail Loop and redirect the money, electrify the Melton line, complete the Airport Rail Link, and create a public "Pothole Portal" reporting how long repairs take.
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
No candidate-specific education statement found.
Party platform: replace the Victorian Curriculum with a knowledge-rich syllabus, require systematic phonics and explicit instruction, expand trade schools, and introduce school vouchers so funding follows the student.
Health and healthcare access
No candidate-specific health statement found.
Party platform: a statewide real-time surgical waiting-list view, nurse-led discharge and nurse prescribing, a regional healthcare guarantee including 24/7 emergency departments in major regional hospitals, and abolishing standalone DEI and ESG programs in health services.
Urban planning and housing density
No candidate-specific planning statement found.
Party platform: genuine community consultation before high-rise development in established suburbs, a legal clock on planning approvals, and mandatory emergency-services planning in major new housing developments.
Climate and energy transition
No candidate-specific energy statement found.
Party platform: scrap all net-zero targets and subsidies, cancel VNI West and the Western Renewables Link, repeal the state nuclear ban (Nuclear Activities (Prohibitions) Act 1983), and reverse the ban on gas connections in new homes.
Party platform: disband the Western Renewable Energy Zone and bar industrial solar, wind and battery projects from irrigated, flood-prone, bushfire-prone or domestic-water-catchment land.
Treaty and First Nations affairs
No candidate-specific statement found.
Party platform: scrap the Statewide Treaty entirely, abolish Gellung Warl and end its legislated funding, which the booklet puts at roughly $70 million a year rising 2.5 per cent annually.
Regional and rural Victoria
No candidate-specific statement found; Mill Park is a suburban seat.
Party platform: fund regional roads and publish road-by-road condition data, restrict water trading to irrigators, reinstate the 1,500 GL buyback cap, and rebuild native timber harvesting on a selective model.
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.
Safer roads and renewed road infrastructure are his stated local priorities, alongside community safety and support for local business and jobs. The profile does not name specific roads, intersections or projects. SSelf-stated — ON-TSOUTSOULISOne Nation Victoria, "Arthur Tsoutsoulis for Mill Park"View source
The party booklet does not mention Mill Park. Its one Melbourne-north item is a proposed new Magistrates' Court at Epping. SSelf-stated — ON-BOOKLETOne Nation Victoria, "The Real Deal: One Nation's Policy Platform (Victorian policy booklet, Oct 2026)" (2026-10)View source
Endorsed One Nation candidate; his profile themes (transparency, cost of living, safety, fewer state taxes) line up with the party's three platform pillars of Restore Safety, Restore Prosperity and Restore Trust. SSelf-stated — ON-TSOUTSOULIS, ON-BOOKLETOne Nation Victoria, "Arthur Tsoutsoulis for Mill Park"View sourceOne Nation Victoria, "The Real Deal: One Nation's Policy Platform (Victorian policy booklet, Oct 2026)" (2026-10)View source
No point of divergence from the party platform was found. Most of his personal policy content is a short party-authored profile, so the position entries above lean on the statewide booklet and are labelled as party platform. SSelf-stated — ON-TSOUTSOULISOne Nation Victoria, "Arthur Tsoutsoulis for Mill Park"View source
Track record & prior candidacies
Contested the 2025 federal election for One Nation in the Division of Scullin (Victoria), polling 6,401 first-preference votes (6.63 per cent). Labor's Andrew Giles held the seat with 44.90 per cent of first preferences. VVerified — AEC-SCULLIN25Australian Electoral Commission, "2025 Federal Election — Division of Scullin first preferences"View source
No other prior candidacy was found in the sources reviewed. SSelf-stated — ON-TSOUTSOULISOne Nation Victoria, "Arthur Tsoutsoulis for Mill Park"View source
Campaign, money & endorsements
Campaign logistics
Endorsements & Donations
Per the VEC's public funding guidance (accessed 2026-10-11), a candidate qualifies for public funding only if elected or if they receive at least 4% of first-preference votes in their contest. Entitlement is calculated from first-preference votes at a per-vote rate indexed each 1 July; the VEC's published 2026-27 rate for lower house candidates is $7.70 per vote.
At Mill Park in 2022 no candidate other than Labor and the Liberals exceeded 7.3% of first preferences, so a One Nation result above 4% would be needed. The VEC notes recent changes to Victoria's political finance laws (Electoral Further Amendment Act 2026), so rates and rules should be checked against the VEC's current pages.