Decreased the price of medicines. Increased PBS subsidies. That has benefited Australians to the tune of $250 million.

Voted six times in the Senate to stop it. As Health Minister, the Opposition Leader wanted to jack up the price of essential medicines by $5 per script.

Introduced Urgent care clinics – a GP open late, bulk billed, near you

As health Minister Peter Dutton tried to introduce higher fees for GP visits

Increased GP bulk billing rates - 360,000 extra appointments

Peter Dutton was voted the worst Health Minister in 40 years by doctors.

Super on paid parental leave. A major contributor to women’s poverty in retirement was that women weren’t receiving super while on maternity leave – costing them thousands in retirement.

Some Liberals want to cut the superannuation guarantee to 9%. Politicians including Peter Dutton receive 15.4%

30% tax on super balances above 3million

Encourage first home buyers to raid their super, pushing up house prices and ruining young peoples’ retirement savings.

Payday super. A simple change – employers need to pay super on the same day they pay salary. You earn interest on that super, instead of your employer holding it. An average employee will earn about $6000 more by the time they retire.

Child care affordability improved by 13.2 per cent nationally (ABS). The changes to the Child Care Subsidy are benefiting around 1.2 million families across the country.

Jane Hume:  “It’s certainly not the policy that we would have introduced.”

A 15%  pay increase will help recruit and retain more early childhood educators, giving more Australian children the best start we can. Government is providing $3.6billion to fund the pay rise through a grant to providers, conditional on not increasing fees by more than 4.4%

Coalition is committed to repealing the Multi-Employer bargaining system that enabled workers to win this pay rise.

Paid placements of childcare workers, health workers, social workers and others

Mandated a registered nurse always be on site at aged care homes, minimum number of care minutes and staff in aged care facilities (prevent under-staffing)  and demanded increased transparency around how money is being used in the sector. 

The Liberals will not commit to mandating the minimum care minutes.

Supported an Aged care pay increase. approximately 400,000 aged care workers have benefited from increases to their wages.

Unions were able to argue the increase because Labor directed Fair Work to consider the undervaluation of women’s work.

The Liberals do not support the pay increase for aged care workers.

In residential aged care, new entrants will pay a supplement if they have more than $238,000 in assets, $95,400 in annual income or a combination of the two — but the treatment of the family home will remain unchanged.

Supported the Labor policy.

Support at Home program – 300,000 Australians will have support for nursing care, OT, everyday living. Stay at home longer. Means tested.

All 55 recommendations of the Respect@Work report are being implemented.

Thinks gender equality is a woke agenda, wants to remove programs like respectful relationships from schools

the Fair Work Commission (FWC) now has to take into account gender equality when exercising its functions and powers, including addressing gender pay gaps, eliminating gender-based undervaluation, ensuring equal remuneration, and providing workplace conditions that facilitate women's full economic participation.

Supported Award wages increases As a result, the 1.7 million Australian women employed under awards are now $119 a week better off, or $6,200 a year better off, compared to their average annual take-home pay three years ago.

Pay transparency laws – it is no longer legal to prevent workers discussing pay

strengthened the rights of workers to flexible working arrangements, transforming it from a mere ‘right to request’ to a substantive right to a change in working arrangements.

Ten days paid family and domestic violence leave.
workers impacted by family and domestic violence, including those escaping a violent relationship – nearly always women - don’t have to choose between their safety and their livelihood

Increased paid parental leave from 18 weeks to 26 weeks by 1 July 2026. Incentivises shared parenting by reserving 4 weeks leave for dads/non-birth parents

$3 billion to advance Australia’s plan to become a renewable energy superpower

The Liberals want to build nuclear reactors in communities across Australia.

In just two years, Labor has ticked off 65 renewable energy projects – enough to power more than seven million homes

It’s a waste of time, a waste of money, it will kill jobs, and he still won’t say where he wants to put the radioactive waste.

released the nation’s first National Battery Strategy, supporting a Future Made in Australia

 additional funding to support and increase social and affordable housing.

Since 2022, Labor has invested nearly 20x more in crisis housing programs than the Coalition did in a decade. $1 billion has been spent on housing for domestic violence victims and homeless Australians.

Increase the cost of housing by allowing first home buyers to raid their super.

$2 billion Social Housing Accelerator to deliver thousands of new social homes across Australia.

Voted against housing Australia future fund

Minimum quality standards for rental properties

Peter Dutton has reportedly made $30million of property transactions over 35 years, making him one of richest-ever contenders for Prime Minister.

 if a university want to bring in more international students – they have to build more student accommodation.

Rights for renters - ban on soliciting rent bidding, standard of no more than one rent increase per year, appeals against retaliatory eviction notices

$300 off your power bill

Flood the Australian market with gas to bring down gas prices.

Wage growth has picked up to its fastest annual rate since 2009,

Wants to remove the legislation that enabled pay rises.

Pushed for minimum wage increase

Claimed any increase in the minimum wage will “wreck” the economy.

$300 off your power bill

Proudly voted against the legislation.  Member for New England claiming cheaper power bills was “Venezuelan communism”.

All 13.6 million taxpayers will get a tax cut.

Remove casualisation loopholes: it is no longer legitimate for employers to continue claiming an employee is casual just because they were originally engaged as a casual. Casuals may apply to be considered permanent.

Peter Dutton has promised that “everything’s on the table” when it comes to our rights at work – threatening to rip up “Same Job Same Pay” , revert to old definition of casual.

Multi-employer bargaining

New laws allow employees to come together across different workplaces within the same industry, to collectively negotiate. And when we stand together, we win!

This is how workers in early childhood education have won wage increases of 15%. Workers are collectively bargaining in the community sector, private schools, disability and aged care.

This is giving more workers access to the power of collective agreements. Employees on collective agreements are now getting about $200/week more than workers not on collective agreements.

Voted against new industrial relations laws; claiming they will return Australia to the “dark ages”, “close down” the economy and leave supermarket shelves “bare”.

Right to disconnect. 33% decrease in unpaid overtime.

 vowed to repeal the right to disconnect.

Closing the Labour-hire Loopholes Companies were using “labour hire” to drive down wages - paying people doing the same job different wages in a race to the bottom.

Eg., Rather than directly employ flight attendants on decent conditions, Qantas was contracting work contracts out to 14 different companies - all on different pay and conditions, but all working on the same shift, same airline wearing the same uniform. Now, because of the changes, Qantas have to pay these labour hire workers at least the same as directly employed cabin crew - these workers have received pay rises of up to 28% - or $20,000.

Workers across the economy, from mining to meatworks, are now going through the process of winning these same job same pay orders. Real wages have gradually increased each quarter since Same Job Same Pay.

Supporting union officials to investigate wage theft

supporting union delegates to receive training to support their coworkers

Closing loopholes that allowed big businesses to avoid paying entitlements to workers by masquerading as small businesses

Supporting first responders who suffer PTSD to receive assistance

Support to eradicate silica

Protecting gig workers: The Fair Work Commission will now be able to make binding minimum standards orders for these ‘employee-like’ workers, effectively setting a floor for things like payment, record keeping, consultation and insurance. Treating "unfair deactivations" like unfair dismissals.

Teacher Workload Reduction Fund- funding new, state-based pilot programs aimed at reducing teacher workload.

Rather than support more people into education and training that benefits Australia, the Liberal Party’s plan for education is to launch an ideological attack on teachers, similar to Donald Trump’s approach in the USA.

Peter Dutton has promised he would “condition” funding for schools based on what he thinks students should be taught. The Liberals opposed childcare subsidies, fee-free TAFE and public school support.

Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships worth up to $40,000 each. To be eligible you have to commit to working in a public school for up to four years.

Oppose Free TAFE.  Deputy Liberal Leader said it was a “waste” of taxpayer dollars.

Instead they would spend an equivalent amount on tax-free business lunches - up to $20,000 in tax breaks for business bosses wining and dining!

Commonwealth Prac Payment to support student teachers and others, who are undertaking the workplace placements that are such a crucial and mandatory part of their studies. $319.50 per week to around 68,000 eligible higher education students and 5000 vocational education students during their clinical and professional placement periods, to remove a barrier for low-income student teachers.

(The Commonwealth Fee-Free TAFE agreement costs $1.5billion. Treasury has costed the Coalition’s tax-free lunches policy at $1.6billion)

Wiping $3 billion off HECS and other HELP debts.

$16 billion in additional funding for public schools – this would be the biggest ever increase in Commonwealth funding to public schools.

$12.6 billion for a landmark National Skills Agreement

Fee-free TAFE places.

Paid placements of childcare workers, health workers, social workers and others