Labor

Australia-wide commitments:

• 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. More here.

Liberal/National

Australia-wide commitments:

• 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; and sector-specific divestiture powers. Details here.

Labor

One Gippsland Priority:

• Planning: $3 million to plan essential road network upgrades for Warragul and Drouin.

Liberal/National

Regional Commitments:

• Roads: $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.

• Roads: $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.

One Gippsland Priority:

• Planning: $3 million to plan essential road network upgrades for Warragul and Drouin.

Labor

Australia-wide commitments:

• Batteries: $2.3 billion Home Batteries Program reducing the cost installed battery by 30 per cent – with over one million new batteries expected by 2030.

• Renewables: to bring the energy grid to 82% renewables by 2030.

• Renewables: $2 billion expansion of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation for renewables investment.

Liberal/National

Australia-wide commitments:

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

• Gas: $300 million Strategic Basin Plan and include gas in the Capacity Investment Scheme; $1 billion for a Critical Gas Infrastructure Fund to increase gas pipeline and storage capacity. Read more.

Labor

Australia-wide commitments:

$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; and

• 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.

• 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

Australia-wide commitments:

• $9.4 billion for health initiatives, including

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

• Bulk billing: boosting Medicare bulk billing

• Medicines; lowering the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme co-payment to $25; 

• Womens Health: $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

Australia-wide commitments:

• Home deposits: 5 per cent deposits for first home buyers;

• 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). 

• First homes: $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.

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

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

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

• $1 billion fund for crisis and transitional accommodation.

Liberal/National

Australia-wide commitments:

• Enabling housing: $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.

Labor

Liberal/National

Regional commitments:

• 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 (also listed under Disaster Resilience).

Labor

Australia-wide commitments:

• TAFE: Make free TAFE permanent.

• Apprenticeships: $626.9 million to expand the New Energy Apprenticeships Program to include critical residential construction jobs (included in 2025-26 budget papers).

• Apprenticeships: $10,000 incentive payments for apprentices in construction.

Liberal/National

Australia-wide commitments:

• Apprenticeships: target of 400,000 apprentices and trainees in training across Australia;

• Apprenticeships: $12,000 for small and medium businesses toward a new apprentice or trainee in critical skills areas for the first two years of their training.

• Technical colleges: $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

Regional commitments:

• Regional Australia Future Fund: to create a guaranteed, on-going annual funding stream for regional, rural and remote Australia. 

Labor

Australia-wide commitments:

• 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 (also listed under Disaster Resilience).

• 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

One Gippsland Priority Area:

• Blackspots: $3 million to improve mobile blackspots on Phillip Island and in Korumburra and Leongatha.

Labor

Australia-wide commitments:

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

Liberal/National

Australia-wide commitments:

• 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 (also listed under Infrastructure).

Labor

Australia-wide commitments:

• Protection: $12 million to support and protect small businesses. Details here.

• Energy rebate: Eligible small businesses to receive extra energy bill rebates of $150 until the end of 2025.

• Tax rebate: Increasing support available under excise remission scheme for beer and sprit producers and the Wine Equalisation Tax rebate.

Liberal/National

Australia-wide commitments:

• Instant asset: Increase the instant asset write-off from $1,000, to $30,000 and make this arrangement ongoing.

• Tax deductions: of up to $20,000 per year for business-related meal expenses.

Labor

Australia-wide commitments:

• 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

Australia-wide commitments:

• 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