We live in the greatest country in the world. But at the moment, Australia is being held back.
The Coalition has a strong vision for Australia. We have the experience to get our country back on track.
To make life easier and better for you, your family and all Australians.
Here’s our plan:
1. Lower your cost of living
To alleviate cost-of-living pressures, we need to get inflation down.
To get our economy back on track, we need a back-to-basics economic plan. That’s what a Coalition Government will deliver.
First, we will rein-in inflationary spending to take the pressure off inflation.
Second, we will wind-back Labor’s intervention and remove regulatory roadblocks which are suffocating the economy and stopping businesses from getting ahead
Third, we will remove the complexity and hostility of Labor’s industrial relations agenda which is putting unreasonable burdens on businesses.
For example, we will revert to the former Coalition Government’s simple definition of a casual worker and create certainty for our 2.5 million small businesses.
Fourth, we will provide lower, simpler and fairer taxes for all – because Australians should keep more of what they earn.
Fifth, we will deliver competition policy which gives consumers and smaller businesses a fair go – not lobbyists and big corporations.
And sixth, we will ensure Australians have more affordable and reliable energy.
2. Ease our housing crisis
Australians are struggling to rent and buy – and not always due to lack of money. The great Australian aspiration of home ownership has become out of reach for so many.
It’s wonderful that parents who have the financial means can help their kids into a home, but we will never accept a situation where the only people who can afford to buy a home are people with rich parents.
The Coalition is committed to allowing Australians to access up to $50,000 of their super to buy their first home, including women needing to restart their lives.
The money initially withdrawn from super will need to be returned when the house is sold to support retirement.
Australians need homes now.
We’re at an 11-year low of building approvals and to help Australians now we need to prioritise Australians for existing homes.
We will rebalance the migration program, freeing up around 40,000 homes in our first year of government and well over 100,000 in the next five years.
First, we will implement a two-year ban on foreign investors and temporary residents purchasing existing homes in Australia.
Second, we will reduce the permanent migration program by 25 per cent – from 185,000 to 140,000 for the first two years in recognition of the urgency of this crisis.
3. Get power bills down
The Government’s ‘renewables only’ policy continues to drive-up power prices.
Electricity and gas prices have gone up by 18 and 25 per cent respectively.
You can see this rise in your household power bills.
Our nation has three energy goals: Cheaper power. Consistent power. Cleaner power.
We won’t achieve these goals under Labor’s ‘renewables only’ policy.
But we can achieve all three, by following the other top 20 economies in the world which use zero-emission nuclear power, or are taking steps to put it in their mix.
And by ramping-up domestic gas production for affordable and reliable energy in the more immediate term.
4. Make our communities and our country better and safer
Ask yourself this: Do you feel safer or more secure than you did two years ago?
A Coalition Government will provide much needed leadership in tackling knife crime.
We will work with states and territories to develop uniform knife laws across all jurisdictions.
Laws which give police the powers to stop and search using detector wands – like Queensland’s ‘Jack’s Law’, as well as laws which limit and restrict the sale and possession of knives to minors and dangerous individuals.
Our bail laws need to be tightened. The Coalition will tighten them.
Offences relating to partner and family violence generally fall under state and territory legislation, but there is also a role for the Commonwealth.
A Coalition Government will make it an offence to use mobile phone and computer networks to cause an intimate partner or family member to fear for their personal safety, to track them using spyware, or engage in coercive behaviours.
We will toughen the bail laws that apply to these new Commonwealth offences.
Peter Dutton has a strong history in keeping our nation safe, having cancelled more than 6,300 visas of dangerous non-citizen criminals – with a priority on those committing sexual offences against women and children – driven by his desire to stop these people harming Australians.
If a minister doesn’t have the backbone to do that, they are letting our country and citizens down.
The Coalition will make our country and citizens safer.
5. Support small business by increasing the instant asset write-off to $30,000
Small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities. The Coalition understands small business.
To help small businesses get ahead, we will extend the value of assets eligible for the instant asset write-off to $30,000 and make this ongoing for small businesses.
This will simplify depreciation for millions of small businesses by cutting red tape, boosting investment in productive assets, lowering business costs and prices.
6. Deliver more doctors
Concerningly, Australia is facing a looming shortage of GPs – some 11,000 by 2031. We know firsthand in our community how difficult it can be to find a bulk-billing GP appointment.
We need more GPs across the nation – especially in our suburbs and regional areas.
Junior doctors who enter general practice earn about three-quarters of the salary of their counterparts in hospitals.
Working with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Australian Medical Association, a Coalition Government will invest $400 million to provide junior doctors who train in general practice with incentive payments, assistance with leave entitlements, and support for pre-vocational training.
7. Invest in mental health
When the Albanese Labor Government came to office, they reduced Medicare-subsidised mental health sessions from 20 to just 10, ripping away access to psychology services for more than 240,000 Australians.
Sessions were increased to 20 under the former Liberal Government.
I am deeply concerned that Labor’s decision to halve the sessions has left many Australians unable to access to healthcare and support they need.
A Coalition Government is committed to restoring the full 20 Medicare-subsidised mental health sessions – so all Australians can access the mental health care they deserve.
8. Lower, simpler and fairer taxes
The Coalition has always believed in lower taxes.
We believe Australians should keep more of what they earn.
Our economic plan to lower your cost of living involves providing lower, simpler and fairer taxes for every Australian.
You will hear our tax plan detail ahead of the next election.