The Victorian Liberals are promising new hybrid trains for commuters in Melbourne’s booming west, as a newly upgraded station at Melton opens today.

If elected in November, the Coalition is promising $1.7 billion for 25 new hybrid diesel-electric trains on the Melton and Wyndham Vale lines.

The lines are currently served by smaller V-Line trains, with local communities waiting for promised electrification of the line to run larger, more frequent Metro services. The state government said it would run higher-capacity V-Line trains on the Melton line from next year, while it finishes investigating electrification.

Mt Atkinson resident Jaksha Shah said residents have long been waiting for the line to be electrified so trains can run more often, and for new train stations to be built in growing suburbs at Mt Atkinson and Thornhill Park. Meanwhile, Infrastructure Victoria said hybrid trains were already operating in some areas of Europe, but that it would not be the best long term solution for Melbourne’s west.

In advice to industry published on Monday, the office of the eSafety commissioner warned that while smart glasses with cameras, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban, can offer accessibility benefits to low vision or blind people, companies might pit “accessibility benefits against safety and privacy considerations”, and noted there was already a backlash to the technology.

There are already reports of women being filmed without their consent and their interactions with a glasses-wearing influencer posted on social media. The eSafety commission also said many companies were placing responsibility on consumers to use the glasses safely when “asking people to use a product responsibly is not an adequate safety policy”.

eSafety emphasized that the design features should include clear visual indicators when recording audio or video that cannot be disabled or obscured. They should also not be able to identify members of the public and should automatically blur people’s faces where they have not provided informed consent.

The eSafety commissioner currently has no powers to force the companies to make the changes and the federal government is facing pressure to step in as the market for smart glasses grows. The attorney general will separately release an exposure draft for the government’s second round of privacy reforms that will seek to address rules around smart glasses.

The peak body representing profit-to-member superannuation funds, the Super Members Council, said under-18s were excluded from guaranteed super unless they worked more than 30 hours a week for one employer.

The council said its analysis found about 156,000 teen workers will miss out on an average of $735 in super in 2026-27, adding up to $115 million across the state. It said the average teenage, part-time worker could miss out on $2,500 in super contributions by age 18, which could compound to $11,000 by retirement.

The Super Members Council found young workers in NSW would miss out on $105 million, out of a nationwide total of $411 million in missed super this financial year. Super Members Council chief executive Misha Schubert highlighted that figure was the highest of any state in Australia.

The council is now calling for the law to be scrapped and said it was “out of step with community expectations”. A push to reform the law is being led federally by the Greens, which introduced an amendment bill into parliament earlier this month; they have also secured a Senate inquiry on the issue, which will report to parliament in November.