Victorian Labor has gone fishing for votes, promising to dump some boating fees and upgrade a regional hospital, while the opposition is promising to tackle the cost of hospital car parking and build a new road.
On day three of the Victorian election campaign, both leaders again spruiked promises in marginal seats.
Premier Daniel Andrews announced a boat and trailer registration fund to go towards waterway infrastructure and the scrapping of parking and ramping fees in marginal Mordialloc.
"This is complex, it's costly, it's just not right," he said of the fees.
Recreational boaters and fishers pay $300 to $400 a year in parking and launching fees to councils and management committees, he added.
Under the plan, which is similar to one already put forward by the Liberal-Nationals, the government would instead pay about $4 million a year directly to councils and committees.
Commercial fishing would also be banned in the Gippsland Lakes in a bid to preserve the waterway and boost tourism, with the government to buy-out remaining licences.
The decision would jeopardise up to 100 jobs and was based on no research, evidence, rationale or consultation, Victorian Seafood Industry spokesman Jonathan Davies told ABC radio.
Liberal leader Matthew Guy said he would match Labor's promise on dumping parking fees but argued they had not bettered the coalition's pledge that all licensing money go directly to the boating and fishing industry.
Mr Guy on Wednesday promised $10 million a year to subsidise 125,000 car spaces at hospitals for concession card holders, pensioners and people visiting direct relatives.
He then went to Kilmore in the Nationals-held seat of Euroa to announce a $162.6 million bypass road, and on to Romsey in Labor's Macedon district to spruik tax cuts.
Meanwhile Mr Andrews and Health Minister Jill Hennessy promised $100 million to redevelop Maryborough Hospital in Liberal-held, marginal Ripon.
Both Mr Guy and Mr Andrews say they're open to a leaders debate but the two came head-to-head sooner than expected, with their campaign buses passing as they returned to the CBD.
Attorney-General Martin Pakula and counterpart John Pesutto also faced-off alongside retired judge Lex Lasry and Law Institute of Victoria president Belinda Wilson at a Melbourne Press Club politics and crime debate.
The opposition in particular has campaigned heavily on law and order and Mr Pesutto told the audience he was concerned about an inward-looking judiciary and people in outer suburbs and regions feeling neglected over crime.
Victorians go to the polls on November 24 and early voting opens November 12.
