
Click the ‘+’ button on the right to see what the major parties have promised of particular interest to peri urban communities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Housing infrastructure: $5 billion for essential infrastructure to build 500,000 new homes. Details here.
Home deposits: First home buyers to access up to $50,000 of their super for a home deposit.
Mortgage help: First Home Buyer Mortgage Deductibility Scheme to allow first home buyers to claim a tax deduction on mortgage interest payments for new build homes for the first five years.
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Labor
Infrastructure: $17.1 billion for new and existing road and rail projects through the Infrastructure Investment Program, including
$1.1 billion for the Western Freeway, and
$68 million for Barwon Heads Road.
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
Road works: $600 million to establish a new Agriculture and Mining Roads program to seal, widen and strengthen critical regional roads, highways and bridges to improve access for trucks.
Road works: $500 million for regional councils to fix potholes, maintain and improve local roads under the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure (LRCI) Program.
Funding model: Reinstate the 80:20 federal funding model for nationally significant road projects in regional and remote Australia.
Local roads: an extra $250 million for the Roads to Recovery program to help councils maintain and upgrade local roads.
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Labor
Liberal/National
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.
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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.
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Labor
Renewable energy to bring the energy grid to 82% renewables by 2030.
$2 billion expansion of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation for renewables investment.
$2.3 billion Home Batteries Program reducing the cost installed battery by 30 per cent – with over one million new batteries expected by 2030.
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.
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Labor
Telecommunications: Introduce legislation in 2025 to expand the universal service framework to require mobile carriers to provide mobile voice and SMS almost everywhere across Australia.
WiFi: $14 million for to extend critical community Wi-Fi services at evacuation centres across Australia under the Strengthening Telecommunications Against Natural Disasters (STAND)program.
NBN: $3 billion to upgrade the remaining national fibre-to-the node (FTTN) network. (NBN Co to contribute $800m). Guarantee NBN Co will remain publicly owned.
Liberal/National
Blackspots: $3 million to improve mobile blackspots on Phillip Island and in Korumburra and Leongatha (local campaign announcement).
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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.
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Labor
Make free TAFE permanent.
$626.9 million to expand the New Energy Apprenticeships Program to include critical residential construction jobs (included in 2025-26 budget papers).
$78 million for the Advanced Entry Trades Training program to fast-track the qualification of 6,000 tradies to help build more homes.
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.
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Labor
$12 million to support and protect small businesses. Details here.
Eligible small businesses to receive extra energy bill rebates of $150 until the end of 2025.
Increasing support available under excise remission scheme for beer and sprit producers and the Wine Equalisation Tax rebate.
Liberal/National
Increase the instant asset write-off from $1,000, to $30,000 and make this arrangement ongoing.
Deductions of up to $20,000 per year for business-related meal expenses.
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Labor
$14 million to extend wi-fi at evacuation centres under the Strengthening Telecommunications Against Natural Disasters (STAND) program. Details here.