The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, has ruled out making a deal with the Greens, saying the party has a “toxic cultural problem” around women.

Speaking to reporters while campaigning in the outer suburbs of Melbourne on Sunday, Andrews categorically ruled out striking a minority government deal with the Greens should Labor fail to win a majority at Saturday’s state election.

“For eight years I have been very clear,” Andrews said, “no deal will be offered and no deal will be done” if Labor fails to win majority government.

“I will not sit down, never sit down and negotiate with people who refuse to call out denigration of women.”

His comments come after a Greens candidate, Angus McAlpine, came under fire last week for previously releasing rap music that included misogynistic lyrics including date rape.

The Victorian Greens leader, Samantha Ratnam, told the ABC her party would work with Labor in the event of a hung parliament.

Ratnam said there were different ways a government could be formed, including granting confidence and supply agreements or having positions in government.

“All options are on the table, we would enter the negotiations with all those options on the table and we would see what would deliver us the best policy for the state,” Ratnam told the ABC.

“It’s very hard to imagine us working with the radical right wing, working with the Liberal party whose policies seem to be moving more towards the right wing every single day, they are fanning the flames of division, hatred and fear.”

Labor currently holds 45 out of 88 seats in the Victorian parliament. The Coalition holds 37, while the Greens have three seats and there are two independents.

While polling has shown Labor is slightly ahead, the party faces a significant challenge to hang onto seats from both the left and right.

In inner-city seats such as Richmond and Brunswick the government is facing a significant challenge from the Greens, while in Melbourne’s south-east the marginal seats of Bentleigh, Carrum, Frankston and Mordialloc – all of which Labor won off the Liberal party at the last election – remain key.

Both major parties made competing policy commitments on Sunday, with Andrews announcing Labor would spend $396m to provide free dental checks and treatment for the state’s 620,000 public school students.

The Liberal party leader, Matthew Guy, who has campaigned on a law and order platform, told the Herald Sun newspaper he would give magistrates the power to send non-violent teens to a 12-week bootcamp instead of sentencing them to youth justice centres.

The so-called “tough love” pilot program would be established for low-level offenders in order to “break the cycle of repeat offending”, he told the newspaper.

Participants would have to cook meals, learn trades such as carpentry and participate in team sports such as football and cricket, the Herald Sun reported.