Click the ‘+’ button on the right to see what the major parties have promised of particular interest to peri urban communities.

  • Labor

    • Taxation: the 16 per cent tax rate for income between $18,201 and $45,000 will be reduced to 15 per cent from 1 July 2026 and to 14 per cent in July 2027. More here.

    • Taxation: taxpayers to choose to claim a $1,000 instant tax deduction instead of claiming individual work-related expenses.

    • Energy bills: $150 energy rebates to be extended until the end of 2025.

    • Grocery prices: supermarket price gouging to be made illegal; fix a key gap in Australia’s competition and consumer protection framework; implement recommendations of the ACCC supermarket inquiry report; and set up a taskforce to provide advice on introducing an excessive pricing regime for supermarkets. More here.

    Liberal/National

    • Taxation: Cost of Living tax offset of up to $1200 for low and middle income earners when they lodge their tax returns for the 2025-26 financial year.

    • Fuel prices: $6 billion to halve the fuel excise for 12 months from the first day of a Coalition Government.

    • Future Generations Fund to pay down national debt, invest in national infrastructure and economic reform from windfall receipts variations each year.

    • Grocery prices: new penalties including $2 million on the spot fines for price gouging; increased powers for the ACCC to conduct random audits of major supermarkets; a Supermarket Commissioner for farmers and suppliers to raise pricing concerns confidentially; and sector-specific divestiture powers. Details here.

  • Labor

    Liberal/National

    • On-going funding: Regional Australia Future Fund to provide a guaranteed annual funding stream in perpetuity for regional, rural and remote Australia. Details here.

    • $100 million for a new Raising the Regions program to deliver new approaches to early childhood education and care in regional and rural areas with limited or no services.

  • Labor

    • Home deposits and construction: 5 per cent deposits for first home buyers and $10 billion to construct up to 100,000 homes for first home buyers. Details here.

    • Affordable and social housing: $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund.

    • Construction: $49.3 million to scale up existing projects for prefabricated and modular housing construction (included in 2025-26 budget papers).

    • Home deposits: $4.9 million for the Regional Home Guarantee and Family Home Guarantee streams of the Home Guarantee Scheme (included in 2025-26 budget papers).

    • Buying a home: An extra $800 million in the Help to Buy program.

    • Banning foreign buyers from purchasing existing homes for two years.

    • $1 billion fund for crisis and transitional accommodation.

    Liberal/National

  • Labor

    • Infrastructure: $17.1 billion for new and existing road and rail projects through the Infrastructure Investment Program, including

    • Planning: $3 million to plan essential road network upgrades for Warragul and Drouin to manage growth, ease congestion, and improve safety (local campaign announcement).

    Liberal/National

  • Labor

    Liberal/National

    • Funding: re-establish the Building Better Regions Fund for infrastructure and community development projects across regional, rural and remote Australia.

    • Essential infrastructure and disaster resilience: $500 million funding stream part of the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure (LRCI) Program for local councils to strengthen communities against natural disasters and fund essential infrastructure to support local growth.

  • Labor

    $7.9 billion to strengthen Medicare:

    • GP visits: standard general practitioner (GP) consult to be eligible for a tripled incentive of $32.50 in regional areas and up to $41.10 in very remote areas;

    • Clinics: $644.3 million over three years to expand the Medicare Urgent Care Clinics program by an additional 50 clinics - which 31 are to be located in regional, rural and remote areas;

    • Training: increase capacity across the General Practitioner and Rural Generalist training pipelines – with 50 per cent of the additional General Practitioner trainee places to be in regional and rural areas; and

    • Men: $32 million to support men's health including training for primary health care workers, and initiatives supporting mental health in community settings. 

    • Advice line: $204.5 million to improve and expand Healthdirect services across Australia, including the launch of a free, 24/7 health advice line, 1800MEDICARE.

    Mental health: $1 billion to fill gaps in free, public mental health care.

    Medicine: the maximum price of PBS medicines to drop to $25.

    Liberal/National

    $9.4 billion for health initiatives, including

    • Receiving care: incentivising junior doctors to work as GPs; investing in hospitals; 

    • Cost: boosting Medicare bulk billing; lowering the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme co-payment to $25; 

    • Women: $500 million for women’s health;

    • Mental health: increasing the number of subsidised mental health sessions from 10 to 20; $400 million for youth mental health services and boosting youth mental health services in regional areas. Details here.

    • Regions:$100 million to upgrade regional medical training facilities and deliver 200 additional regional medical Commonwealth Supported Places. Details here.

  • Labor

    Liberal/National

    • National Gas Plan: $300 million Strategic Basin Plan; $1 billion Critical Gas Infrastructure Fund. 

    • Replace retired coal power stations with  nuclear energy in seven locations, including the Latrobe Valley. Details here.

  • Labor

    Liberal/National

    • Blackspots: $3 million to improve mobile blackspots on Phillip Island and in Korumburra and Leongatha (local campaign announcement).

  • Labor

    • Trade: $23.8 million over three years from 2025–26 to sponsor agricultural trade events (2025-26 budget initiative).

    • Pests: $11.0 million in 2025–26 to continue efforts to reduce the economic and environmental burden of established feral animals, pests and weeds (2025-26 budget initiative).

    Liberal/National

    • Biosecurity:  an Import Container Levy by Sea and Air to replace the biosecurity protection levy. Levy proceeds to fund a $2 million pilot for smarter technology to detect diseases. Details here.

    • National Food Security Plan: develop a plan that includes protecting food-producing land and water, reinstating the Agriculture Visa and reviewing the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme.

  • Labor

    Liberal/National

    • Apprenticeships:

      • 400,000 apprentices and trainees to be in training nationally;

      • incentive payments for employers to hire an apprentice; and

      • $12,000 for businesses to take on a new apprentice in critical skills areas.

    • $260 million for12 Australian Technical Colleges for students in years 10 to 12 enrolled in a school-based apprenticeship, traineeship or courses that lead to a Year 12 certificate. 

  • Labor

    Liberal/National

  • Labor

    • $14 million to extend wi-fi at evacuation centres under the Strengthening Telecommunications Against Natural Disasters (STAND) program. Details here.

  • *See also commitments listed under Energy.

    Labor

    Liberal/National