Treating older Australians with the respect they deserve Older Australians helped build this country. They worked hard, paid their taxes and raised their families. They rightly expected that the Federal Government would support them in their frailer years. That’s what...
Policy
Home Equity Housing Scheme
An Albanese Labor Government will help more people buy a home sooner by cutting the cost of buying a home by up to 40 per cent. This will mean a smaller deposit, a smaller mortgage and smaller mortgage repayments. Help to Buy will be open to 10,000 Australians each...
Housing Future Fund
An Albanese Labor Government will create a $10 billion off-budget Housing Australia Future Fund to build social and affordable housing and create thousands of jobs now and in the long term. Each year investment returns will be transferred to the National Housing...
Federal Labor Policy
Anthony Albanese and Labor have a plan for a better future. Australians deserve a leader who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work needed to get things done. But after nearly a decade in office, Scott Morrison still refuses to take...
Child Care
Labor is committed to providing cheaper child care for all families. Working families with kids in child care are struggling right now. Families know how expensive and difficult the child care system is to navigate. Australians pay some of the highest child care...
Women’s Safety
Labor will legislate to make it clear that employers have a positive duty to reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate sex discrimination, sexual harassment and victimisation, as far as possible. The National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian...
Medicare
Labor built Medicare. Defending it is in our DNA. The Liberals opposed Medicare. Cutting it is in theirs. Under cover of the National focus on the Covid-19 pandemic, the Prime Minister has snuck out almost 1000 changes to Medicare Benefits. Including cuts to funding...
Climate Change
Australia has the natural resources and the people to be a renewable energy superpower – creating jobs, cutting power bills at home and for businesses, and exporting new sources of energy to the world - while importantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The world’s...