Our number one focus is helping you with the cost of living.

The re-elected Albanese Labor Government is delivering:

• Tax cuts for every Australian taxpayer.
• Energy bill relief to the end of the 2025 calendar year for every Australian household and around one million small businesses. Every household will receive $75 every quarter until 31 December 2025.
• Action to prevent energy retailers from automatically rolling over contracts to higher cost deals.
• Ban on most non-compete clauses.
• $2.6 billion to increase award wages of aged care nurses from 1 March 2025.
• Even cheaper medicines – cutting cost of PBS medicines to only $25.
• $1.8 billion to list new medicines on the PBS.
• Largest boost to bulk billing in the history of Medicare, which will make 9 out 10 GP visits bulk billed by 2030.
• 20% cut to student debt and making the HECS repayment system fairer.
• Historic wage increases for early childhood education and care workers.
• Expansion of Paid Parental Leave to 26 weeks by 2026.
• Superannuation on government Paid Parental Leave.
• A fair go for families by banning supermarket price gouging.
• Increase to the Medicare levy low-income thresholds by 4.7% for singles, families, and seniors and pensioners from 1 July 2025. This means more than one million Australians on lower incomes will continue to be exempt from paying the Medicare levy or continue to pay a reduced levy rate.
• Boosted funding to the ACCC by $38.8 million to crack down on misleading and deceptive pricing practices and unconscionable conduct in the supermarket and retail sector.
• Action to tackle unfair excessive card surcharges to help consumers get a better deal at the checkout.
• $6.7 million to extend the operation of the National Anti-Scam Centre.
• $1,000 instant tax deduction, allowing taxpayers to choose to claim a $1,000 instant tax deduction instead of claiming individual work-related expenses.

Since we were first elected in 2022, the Albanese Labor Government has:

• Backed annual wage increases for low-paid workers in each of the last three Annual Wage Reviews. Since being elected, the National Minimum Wage has increased by almost $7,500 per year under Labor.
• Legislated that the Fair Work Commission must consider gender equality as an objective in decision making.
• Delivered pay rises for aged care workers.
• Delivered pay rises for early childhood education and care workers.
• Made the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct mandatory.
• Introduced multi-million-dollar penalties for breaches of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct by supermarkets.
• $180 million in anti-scam initiatives, which has seen annual scam losses in Australia decrease by over $1 billion since 2022.
• Free broadband for 30,000 families.
• Cheaper childcare for one million families.