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HERE IS WHAT LABOR HAS. ACTUALLY DONE! (As opposed to NO CRED RED!
Here is a snapshot of what the ALP has done since being elected: (please feel free to add;
Industrial Relations:
- Multi Employer bargaining - Allows unions to negotiate more effectively
- Same job, same pay - end labour hire rorts
- Wage theft and industrial manslaughter criminalised
- Increased minimum wage
- Long-term consistent casual employees given right to permanent employment (Employee choice pathway)
- Legislated right for workers to not answer their phones on their days off. (Right to disconnect)
- Employment agreements that prevent employees from discussing their pay with each other have been banned. (Pay secrecy clauses)
Cost of Living:
- $300 energy bill rebate
- Delivery of more housing and sought agreement from the states to streamline zoning and planning regulations (National Housing Accord)
- Establishment of fund to provide long-term consistent funding for social and affordable housing (Housing Australia Future Fund)
- First back‑to‑back increase to Commonwealth Rent Assistance in more than 30 years.
-Expanded (and expanding) length of paid parental leave (PPL). Increased flexibility of PPL. Added superannuation to PPL payments.
International relations:
- Fixed China relationship (tariffs ended)
Environment
- Legislated emissions reduction target - Climate Change Minister must update parliament annually on progress towards target.
- Safeguard mechanism (Reducing big companies carbon pollution)
- Capacity investment scheme - direct govt investment in renewables
- Environmental Protection agency established (In progress - before parliament) - independent from government and makes decisions on development - can regulate state decisions - can increase restrictions on native logging.
- Investment to double Australian recycling capacity
- Massive areas of ocean designated as Marine Parks which bans fishing. This is the biggest contribution to ocean conservation by area for two years in a row - 2023 and 2024.
Finance / Economics
- Double tax on superannuation above $3m.
- Bigger tax cuts for low and mid income earners (stage three tax cuts). Higher taxes for high income earners. Resetting of Morrison's tax bracket flattening for high income earners.
- 2023 budget delivered Australia's largest budget surplus. 2024 surplus the first consecutive surplus in an Australian federal budget since 2007-08.
- Multinational minumum corporate tax rate reforms
- Halved inflation. Wages are now growing faster than inflation.
- Highest level of job creation in a single parliamentary term. Unemployment rate well below OECD average.
- $4 billion dollars in savings from hiring fewer consultants and contractors in the Australian Public Service.
Healthcare
- Medicare Urgent Care Clinics - Bulk billed
- Medicines on PBS cheaper by 30%
- Fixing aged care (Nurse in every nursing home)
- Fixing NDIS rorts (in progress)
- Bulk billing reforms and investment which has stopped the slide and has led to an increase in the proportion of doctors visits that are bulk billed.
Integrity:
- National Anti Corruption Commission
Arts:
- National Culture Policy (more funding, different priorities)
Education:
- 300,000 fee-free TAFE places over three years from 2024
- Prac payment for students of nursing, teaching, physio, etc.