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Josh
Bill
We have made real progress, but we know the job is not done.
We received an exercise in numerology.
We believe in: Reward for effort. The power of aspiration and enterprise. Upholding personal responsibility. And always providing a helping hand to those who need it.
We believe government has a responsibility to leave the place better than we found it.
We want Australians to have a go and to get a fair go.
We believe Australia does best when working class and middle class Australia gets a fair go.
We are reducing the debt and this interest bill.
We're going to stop the intergenerational unfairness in our tax system.
We want Australians to earn more and to keep more of what they earn.
We won't back a plan that gives a retail worker on $35,000 less than $5 a week while an investment banker pockets more than $11,000 a year.
We passed into law a three step plan to deliver $144 billion in personal income tax cuts.
We will not be signing-up to the Liberals' radical, right-wing, flat-tax experiment, way off in the future.
We believe there should be limits to the amount you are taxed.
We choose our health care system over bigger tax loopholes.
We will put a speed limit on taxes, while our opponents will put a speed limit on the economy.
We will consult with employers and the independent umpire, and of course we will take into account the capacity of business in the economy to sustain the wages' growth.
We want small businesses to prosper, and we are backing them to do so.
We backed a tax cut for small and medium businesses.
We provide an additional $60 million for Export Market Development Grants to allow small and medium-sized businesses to capitalise on those opportunities.
We will legislate to restore the arbitrary cuts to Sunday and public holiday penalty rates in our first 100 days.
We believe in lower taxes but we also believe everyone should pay their fair share.
We will help the 1.2 million lowest-paid Australians, by creating a living wage.
We have implemented tough new laws, which helped raise more than $12 billion.
We will stop companies using sham contracts and dodgy labour hire arrangements to cut people's pay.
We provide additional support to the Tax Office to continue these efforts.
We also provide additional resources to our financial regulators following the Banking Royal Commission.
We will deliver new infrastructure projects.
We will reinvigorate jobs in the construction sector.
We know you want to be there for the school drop off, to help the kids with their homework and spend more time together at the dinner table.
We are increasing the Urban Congestion Fund four-fold from $1 billion to $4 billion.
We are providing $2 billion in this Budget for fast-rail between Melbourne and Geelong, slashing travel times in half.
We will deliver $1.5 billion to upgrade the Gateway Motorway from Bracken Ridge to the Pine River - and the next stage of the Bruce Highway from the Northern Suburbs to Caboolture.
We are getting on with the job of building infrastructure.
We'll make the rule that 1 in 10 people employed must be an Australian apprentice [in Commonwealth funded projects].
We will establish a new $3.9 billion Emergency Response Fund that will ensure additional resourcing is available to support future natural disaster recovery efforts.
We need to ensure all Australians of all ages have the skills they need for the jobs of today and the jobs of tomorrow.
We'll uncap university places, opening the doors of higher education to an additional 200,000 Australians.
We will create 80,000 new apprenticeships in industries with skills shortages.
We will help train 150,000 apprentices for the jobs of the future.
We'll create an Apprentice Advocate.
We will double incentive payments to employers to $8,000 per placement.
We will provide additional support for businesses which take them on – both young people and mature age workers looking to re-train and to learn new skills.
We announce tonight ten new training hubs connecting schools, local industries and young people in regional areas with high youth unemployment.
We choose fair wages and good jobs.
We are going to double the size of our Rebuilding TAFE fund – up to $200 million to renovate campuses in regional and outer-suburban Australia.
We choose TAFE and apprenticeships.
We are also investing $62 million to boost literacy, numeracy and digital skills.
We provide further funding to increase participation for women and girls in STEM.
We will make Tanya Plibersek the Minister for Education.
We are also backing the industries of the future.
We are investing $9 billion this year in science, research and technology, including its commercialisation.
We will invest in industries where Australia can be best in the world.
We are committing around $300 billion to all schools, a total increase of 63 per cent.
We will put back every single dollar the Liberals have cut from public schools and public hospitals.
We want our children to get the best possible start in life.
We will guarantee universal access to pre-school or kinder for every three year old and every four year old in Australia.
We established the $20 billion Medical Research Future Fund, with dividends going to new clinical trials and research into areas such as tuberculosis and traumatic brain injury.
We will continue to support our scientists in their work, we will invest in the research and the clinical trials.
We can guarantee the essential services that Australians need and deserve.
We put back the $83 million the Liberals cut from the ABC.
We choose the ABC.
We'll provide another $10 million to support regional news and emergency broadcasting, especially in areas affected by natural disasters such as Townsville, Tasmania and regional Victoria.
We are offering a genuine alternative for regional Australia.
We also list more medicines on the PBS to treat kidney, bladder, liver and skin cancer.
We choose the best support possible for people with cancer.
We will invest $600 million towards eliminating all of the out-of-pocket costs for diagnostic imaging.
We announce the listing of Besponsa, a medicine for people with acute Leukaemia.
We are adding new services to the Medicare Benefits Schedule, including diagnostic imaging for breast cancer and heart health checks.
We will provide new MRI machines to communities where they are needed most.
We will guarantee that every single MRI machine which meets national standards, every single machine is covered by Medicare for cancer scans - full stop.
We are establishing a Heart Kids Project for new research to treat and prevent heart disease which affects thousands of Australian children.
We established the Royal Commission into aged care.
We also recognise the pressure energy bills place on those who can least afford it.
We are providing additional cost of living relief for pensioners through a one-off Energy Assistance Payment of $75 for singles and $125 for couples.
We know that Australia's carers are our nation's unsung heroes.
We will put people with disability back at the centre of decision-making in the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
We are announcing $84 million to enable carers to leave a loved one in safe hands and get a much needed break.
We will lift the NDIA cap on staff numbers, so we can get the support out the door, keep the promises made to people with disabilities.
We will get the NDIS back on track.
We have also set aside half a billion dollars for a Royal Commission into the mistreatment of people with disability.
We will beat our international emission reduction targets.
We choose renewables and we choose real action on climate change.
We must also change attitudes as the path to violence begins with disrespect.
We will invest in safe accommodation for women fleeing violent relationships.
We are funding new practical training to give kids, parents and teachers the knowledge and skills necessary to keep our children safe online.
We extend its roll out [cashless debit card].
We choose a Voice for the First Australians enshrined in our constitution.
We announce $337 million in new funding for our comprehensive drug strategy.
We are providing the Federal Police and ASIO with $570 million to keep Australians safe from these threats.
We choose hope over fear.
We are also allocating an additional $680 million to support our service men and women deployed abroad.
We are adding to the $278 million invested in our last two Budgets to improve the wellbeing of our veterans and their families.
We delivered ahead of schedule on our promise to create one million new jobs.
We have set the course for an even better and brighter Australia.
We believe the Australian people are hungry for a united, stable government with a real vision for the future, one that can make hard decisions.
We choose the future over the past.
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