A Tax Cut for Every Taxpayer 

The Albanese Labor Government is cutting taxes for all 14 million Australian taxpayers.

A worker on average earnings ($79,000) will benefit by $268 per year in 2026-27, and $536 per year from 2027-28 onwards.

Along with the tax cuts we’ve already delivered while in government, that means the average worker will pay around $30,000 less in tax over the next decade compared to the 2023-24 tax rate.

Peter Dutton and the Liberals have already made it clear that you will pay more tax under Dutton.

No matter where you live or what you do for a living, your wages will go further under Labor.

More Energy Bill Relief

Labor is extending energy bill relief to every household and eligible small businesses until the end of 2025.

That means you’ll get $75 off each power bill for the rest of the year – on top of the $300 in energy bill relief that Labor has rolled out to every Australian household already.

The new $75 payments will be paid in July/August and October, with the rebate provided on an account basis.

Under Labor, more relief is on its way.

More Bulk Billing for All Australians – Strengthening Medicare

A re-elected Albanese Labor Government will make the single largest investment in Medicare ever. This will deliver an additional 18 million bulk billed GP visits every year.

This will mean 9 out of 10 GP visits will be bulk billed by 2030, boosting the number of fully bulk billed practices to around 4800 nationally – triple the current number.

This election is a make or break moment for Medicare: it’s a choice between stronger Medicare with more bulk billing for all Australians under Labor, or more cuts to Medicare under Peter Dutton’s Liberals.

Whether your family needs urgent or ongoing health care, under Labor, every Australian will have access to free healthcare with their Medicare card.

To do this, Labor will:

• Expand the bulk billing incentive to all Australians.

• Boost Medicare payments to general practices that bulk bill every patient.

• Train thousands more nurses and doctors.

There is no question that when it comes to Medicare, you will be worse off under Dutton.

Labor is building Australia’s future by building a stronger Medicare.

Opening a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Coburg

The Albanese Labor Government has delivered 87 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across Australia, and we’ve announced that we will open another 50 clinics if re-elected – including in Coburg and Clifton Hill.

These clinics, including the closest currently open clinic in Carlton, have seen more than a million Australians for urgent, but not life-threatening conditions. Things like burns, cuts and broken bones.

Every trip to a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is fully bulk billed – all you need is your Medicare card, not your credit card.

The Clinics are saving patients a lengthy wait at a hospital emergency department, meaning they get the care they need, when they need it.

Cheaper Medicines will be Even Cheaper

From next January, a re-elected Albanese Labor Government will make sure a prescription on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) costs no more than $25, or $7.70 for pensioners and concession card holders.

The last time PBS medicine cost less than $25 was 2004.

You shouldn’t have to check your bank balance to see if you can afford to buy the medicine you need.

The Albanese Labor Government has already made important reforms to the PBS, with over 2000 different brands of medicine cheaper, 60-day prescriptions to save Australians from extra trips to the pharmacy and GP, made the largest ever cut to the maximum patient co-payment, and cut the amount pensioners pay by 25%.

We’re also delivering more choice for women with new and amended listings for contraception, endometriosis and IVF treatments on the PBS – including Pergoveris, which was previously only available for women on the PBS at later IVF cycles and is now available from the earliest stage of IVF, saving women undergoing IVF up to $3500.

Taking the Next Steps Towards a Universal Early Education System

A re-elected Albanese Labor Government will guarantee eligibility for 3 days of subsided early education a week for children who need it.

These changes mean that a family earning $90,000 a year could save up to $230 a week on childcare.

We’ve already cut the cost of childcare for over one million Australian families. The average family receiving a Child Care Subsidy has saved around $4,400 as a result of our reforms.

Our Government has also delivered a 15% pay rise for early childhood educators to help reward, retain and recruit the educators our children deserve, and we’re training more child care workers through Fee Free TAFE – with over 125,000 educators and teachers currently being trained.

We’re also investing $1 billion into the Building Early Education Fund to build and expand over 160 childcare centres across Australia.

Early education is essential, and no child should miss out on the opportunity of high-quality early learning because of their parents’ circumstances.

Making childcare fairer is part of the Albanese Labor Government’s plan to ease cost of living and deliver a universal childcare system.

20% off Student HECS Debt 

A re-elected Albanese Labor Government will cut student debt by 20% - for everyone.

We’ll also reduce the amount graduates have to repay each year, to take pressure off Australians and to help with the cost of living.

We’ll cut around $5,500 from an average uni student’s debt, and making the repayment system fairer will boost take-home pay for people repaying student debt.

This is about putting money back in your pocket – and putting intergenerational equality back into the system.

Starting the largest house build in Australian History

The Albanese Labor Government has started the largest house build in Australian history, to make homes more affordable.

The simple fact is that Australia has a housing shortage. We need to build more homes, more quickly, in more parts of the country.

That’s why we’ve set an ambitious goal of building 1.2 million homes by the end of the decade. 

We know this is a challenge, but it is a challenge we have to meet.

We’re helping home buyers into a home sooner with just a 2% deposit required through Help to Buy – with almost every first home buyer now eligible for the scheme.

That means more hospitality workers, teachers, cleaners, carers, childcare workers and so many more Australians eligible to buy their first home.

We’re training more tradies to build the homes we need, funding more apprenticeships and growing the construction workforce.  We’re cutting red tape to kickstart construction faster.  We’re providing incentives to state governments to get homes build quickly, and we’re delivering the biggest investment in social housing in more than a decade to help reduce homelessness.

And for renters doing it tough, we have increased rent assistance and introduced protections to end no-grounds evictions.

Whether you’re renting, buying or building, more homes will mean more security for everyone.

Making Free TAFE Permanent

The Albanese Labor Government is locking in free TAFE and making it permanent – nationwide. We’ve legislated to guarantee 100,000 Fee-Free TAFE places, each year.

This will boost Australia’s workforce by training more tradies and construction workers to build more homes, more nurses and healthcare workers to look after our loved ones and provide more opportunities for people in Wills to gain skills and get ahead.

This is what Labor Governments do. We help people under pressure and we build for the future. 

A state-of-the-art national sports and education centre in Coburg

The Albanese Labor Government is partnering with the Bachar Houli Foundation to construct a state-of-the-art national sports and education centre in Coburg.

This $15 million investment will deliver the Aspire Sports Centre – the new, permanent home for the Bachar Houli Foundation and the Islamic College of Sport.

And after hours, it will be a space for both the Muslim and non-Muslim Australian community to connect through sports – with a particular focus on promoting women and girls’ participation.