Angelica Di Camillo

Her campaign centres cost-of-living relief on taxing large corporations, stating "1 in 3 big corporations pay no tax" and pledging to end corporate price gouging to fund community services.

"People in Prahran love public transport but it's expensive, and in a cost of living crisis, cutting fares to 50 cents will make a massive difference," she said of the Greens' proposed statewide fare trial.

She has also campaigned to cut stamp duty as a cost-of-living/home-ownership measure.

"People in Prahran are feeling the pain of soaring rents and a worsening housing crisis," Di Camillo says, citing rents rising "2.5 times faster than wages" over the last five years.

"We will cap rent increases so you can afford your home, and even save for the future," the campaign states, alongside a stamp-duty cut to help with home-ownership costs.

She criticises the state Labor government for allowing unlimited rent increases by property investors.

"As a young person living in St Kilda East, I know our community is struggling. Rent keeps going up," she said on being announced as the Greens' candidate.

The campaign pledges to make Victorian public transport "permanently free," saying Melbourne "could be the first major city in the world" to offer zero-cost buses, trams and trains.

As an interim step she backed the Greens' proposed 50-cent statewide fare trial: "It's 2025 and people should be able to tap onto public transport with their phone like you can in other cities," and "If Queensland can have 50c public transport fares — why can't we?"

Locally, she names improving accessibility and reliability of public transport in the area, and upgrading South Yarra station, among her first priorities if elected.

"You only have to walk down Chapel Street to see how dead a lot of the shops are, how empty they are," Di Camillo said, campaigning for a 2% tax on commercial properties left vacant for more than six months.

"We've been working to push this and having discussions around it (with the government)," she said of the vacancy-tax proposal.

The Parliamentary Budget Office estimated the tax would raise about $258 million over four years for traders, artists and pop-up businesses; the Chapel Street Precinct Association called the proposal "ill-considered" and "disconnected from the realities of running a successful business."

Beyond this, statewide Greens planning policy (not specifically restated by her) backs "mixed, medium and high-density development in established centres" alongside strengthened heritage protections.

The campaign pledges to "stop new fossil fuel projects and make big climate polluters pay for the damage they cause," criticising state Labor for prioritising "fossil fuel profits over people's safety" after recent fires and floods.

She commits to "lower bills powered by renewables, helping homes and apartments get off gas," with "no new coal and gas."

An environmental engineer by training, she says she joined the Greens believing political courage was needed on climate after finding "out of date policies were continuously blocking meaningful progression" in her clean-energy career.

Statewide Greens energy policy (not personally restated by her, though consistent with her platform) commits to net-zero stationary-sector emissions "no later than 2030" and a "rapid transition to 100% renewable energy" with publicly/community-owned transmission and storage.