No, Victoria’s average-speed camera network will not be expanded for now. The bill that would have allowed point-to-point enforcement across changing speed limits passed the lower house but lapsed before a final upper-house vote, as the government entered caretaker mode before the 28 November 2026 state election.
Existing average-speed camera rules continue to apply. Any future expansion would need new legislation after the election.
What the bill would have changed
Different speed zones: average speed could have been enforced between two cameras even when the limit changes along the way, such as 100km/h to 80km/h and back.
Longer zones: enforcement could have covered routes with different road names.
Mobile point-to-point cameras: some restrictions on where average-speed systems can be placed would have been lifted.
Penalties: average-speed offences would have used graduated penalties in line with existing speeding offences.
Tolerance: at least 2km/h would have been deducted from the calculated speed before a fine.
No double penalty: drivers could not have been prosecuted twice for the same speeding, such as by police and a camera in the same zone.
What applies to Victorian drivers now
Average-speed enforcement still works only where one speed limit applies between the two detection points. Fixed, mobile and point-to-point cameras continue to operate under the current rules.
What happens next
Bills that lapse when parliament is dissolved do not carry over. Whichever party forms government after 28 November would have to reintroduce the reforms, in the same or a different form, for them to become law.
Drivers should keep to the posted limit throughout any camera zone. The lapse of this bill does not change how existing cameras detect or fine speeding.