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

  • 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. 

    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.

  • 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.