Election 2025: Full list of policies and promises from Labor, Coalition and Greens

Here are the major policies from Labor, Coalition and Greens so far in Australia as the election draws closer. See the list.

These are the policies that have been announced by the major parties which dominate the Australian political landscape as the federal election continues.

See the list below and what they stand for:

Childcare

Labor:

Guaranteed three days of subsidised care for every family

Scrap activity test

$1bn to build 160 childcare centres in areas of shortage over four years

Liberals:

Supporting “local solutions” for better access

Greens:

Yet to announce details about the push for free, universal education but recognise that a $10 a day fee would be “an improvement”

Backs calls for a Royal Commission into privatised early childhood education

Health

Labor:

$8.5bn to triple GP bulk billing

$573m for women’s health

$644m for 50 new Urgent Care Clinics

Capping the price of medication on the PBS to $25

$1bn to establish and upgrade at least 100 mental health centres

$10m for CareFlight to purchase a plane in the Northern Territory

$200m for more beds and new emergency debt at St John of God Midland Public Hospital in WA

$150m new health service for Adelaide’s south

$8m for Burnie health hub in Tasmania

$120m for a birthing service at Rouse Hill Hospital in Sydney

$60m for a new residential aged care home in Darwin

$2.6m for Street Side Medics - a mobile GP service supporting people experiencing homelessness in Victoria and NSW

Legislate to guarantee that working parents dealing with stillbirth and early infant death can continue to access their employer-paid paid parental leave (PPL).

Liberals:

$500m to increase Medicare-subsidised psychological sessions from 10 to 20

$8.5bn to match Labor’s GP bulk-billing announcement

$9m to review women-specific health items on the MBS and PBS and invest in Ovarian Cancer Australia

$573.3m to match Labor’s women’s health funding

Match Labor’s commitment to reduce PBS scripts to no more than $25

Additional $400m in youth mental health services

$3m over three years to support Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision (MRV)

$15m for Suicide Prevention Australia

$10.1m for CareFlight to purchase a plane in the Northern Territory

Greens:

Free GP, nurse, mental health, and dental appointments at new local clinics under a $54bn plan over the next decade

$30bn for public hospitals over the decade

$181m for free ADHD and autism assessments

Pill testing facilities, toothbrushes and mental health support through schools, increase access to medicinal cannabis

Add dental to Medicare

Cost of living

Labor:

Two tax cuts saving the average working Australian $268 a year in 2026-27 and $538 a year in 2027-28

Any taxpayer can automatically claim work expenses up to $1000 without receipts

Banning non-compete clauses for low and medium income workers, making it easier to move jobs

$2.6bn pay rise for 60,000 nurses

Write to Fair Work Commission asking for above inflation wage rise for award workers

Legislate to protect penalty rates in awards

Liberals:

Slashing 25c per litre off fuel saving motorists an average of $14 to fill up their tank

Taxpayers earning $45,000-$104,000 will get a one-off $1200 tax offset. Workers earning below $45,000 or $104,000-$140,000 will get a partial offset

Repealing Labor’s tax cuts for 2026-27 and 2027-28

Introducing divestiture powers to break up supermarkets

Cutting ‘wasteful’ government spending in a bid to drive down inflation

A two year cut to permanent migration program from 185,000 to 140,000

$50m to expand food charities like Foodbank, SecondBite and OzHarvest

Greens:

50 cent public transport fares

Make supermarket price gouging illegal and break up the duopoly

$800-a-year back-to-school payment

Wipe all student HECS debt

Raise Centrelink payments and the pension

Discount mortgages

Education/Training

Labor:

Cut 20 per cent of all HECS student loans

$10,000 incentive payment for construction apprentices starting July 1

New funding deals for all public and state schools with all jurisdictions

$1.5bn to make fee-free TAFE permanent

$25m for community schools to teach kids from diverse communities their mother tongue

Liberals:

Matching dollar-for-dollar agreements already announced by the Federal Government for schools funding

Introducing incentive payments, including $12,000 to small and medium businesses, to hit a target of 400,000 apprentices

$3.8m for ‘Ready to Read’ program for young Australians

Greens:

Fully funded public schools and abolition of fees and charges

Make all TAFE and university courses free

$800 annual back to school payments

Climate change

Labor:

Continue to pursue 2030 emissions reduction target of 43 per cent based on 2005 levels

Strengthen the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act

Match Coalition promise for new $10m weather radar in Western Queensland

$10m Great Barrier Reef program to get more schools to visit the region

Housing

Liberals:

‘Practical initiatives’ to address climate change

Defunding the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO)

$10m for weather radar in Western Queensland to assist Bureau of Meteorology

Greens:

Stop new coal and gas projects

Expand publicly owned renewable energy

End fossil fuel subsidies for all industries except agriculture

End native forest logging

Housing

Labor:

Any first home buyer can buy a house with only 5% deposit, regardless of income or property value

Build 100,000 houses for first home buyers

Ban foreign investors from buying established homes for at least two years

$8.9m to ATO and Treasury to crack down on foreign land banking

$800m expansion of Help to Buy policy

$54m for boosting prefabricated homes technology

Liberals:

First-time buyers of new homes will be able to deduct interest payments on up to $650,000 of mortgages from their taxable incomes, for first five years of repayments.

$5bn to fund infrastructure to support 500,000 new home builds

Allowing first homebuyers to access $50,000 from their superannuation for a deposit

Two-year ban on foreign investors buying existing Australian homes.

Lower borrowing requirements for first home buyers with lenders mortgage insurance (LMI) saving up to $2,500 a year

Greens:

Cap rent increases and establish a National Renters Protection Authority

End tax concessions for wealthy property investors

Create a public property developer to build, sell and rent cheaper homes to Australians

Economy

Labor:

Tax cut of up to $268 from July 2026 and up to $536 from July 2027

$50m for industries impacted by US tariffs

Establish $1bn interest free loan facility to support businesses impacted by US tariffs

Liberals:

Repeal the right to disconnect

Set a cap on the amount of government spending as a percentage of GDP

Reduce Commonwealth public service by 41,000 workers over five years using voluntary redundancies and natural attrition

Establish $20bn fund for Regional Australia Future Fund

Greens:

A 40 per cent tax on the excessive profits of big corporations to fund significant cost of living support

Make Australia’s 150 billionaires pay an annual 10 per cent tax on their net wealth

Target multinational tax avoidance

Cap CEO remuneration by removing tax deductions for salaries over 15 times the average weekly earnings

Energy

Labor:

$150 off energy bills

$2.3bn for households to save 30% on home batteries up to $4,000 per household

Fine car manufacturers who don’t meet National Vehicles Emissions Standards

$24m to support renewables transition for Boyer Paper Mill in Tasmania

Liberals:

$331bn to build seven nuclear power plants by 2050

Ramping up gas production, including fast tracking the North West Shelf project in Western Australia

National gas plan that would secure domestically produced gas for an additional 10 to 20 per cent of the east coast’s demand

Modelling shows the gas plan would save industrial users 15% and households 7% on gas bills, as well as 8% and 3% off electricity

Scrap fines for car manufacturers who don’t meet National Vehicles Emissions Standards

Greens:

Subsidise batteries and solar for homes and businesses

Grants and low-interest loans to electrify, cut emissions and energy bills

Allow renters to force landlords to install solar panels with upfront cost covered by $10bn fund offering concessional loans

Business

Labor:

Two-year tax freeze on draught beer excise

Banning non-compete clauses for workers earning less than $175,000 a year

12-month extension of the $20,000 instant asset write off for small and medium businesses

Liberals:

$20,000 in annual tax deductions for business related meals and entertainment

Raising instant asset write off to $30,000 and making it permanent

Greens:

Grants of up to $250,000 for start ups and cooperatives

Extending the $20,000 instant asset write-off and the Small Business Energy Incentive Scheme to 1 July 2026

Infrastructure

Labor:

$3bn for fibre optic cable upgrades to the NBN

$1bn to upgrade Fifth Avenue near Western Sydney Airport

$1bn to start buying up land for southwest Sydney rail extensions

$16m for Bega War Memorial Pool

$1.8bn for Victorian roads

Liberals:

Matching Labor’s $1bn to upgrade Fifth Avenue near Western Sydney Airport

Matching Labor’s $1bn to start buying up land for southwest Sydney rail extensions

Reinstating an 80/20 federal-state funding split for major projects

Scrap $2.2bn for Melbourne suburban rail loop

$1.5bn for Melbourne airport rail link

$80m to duplicate the Bass Highway in Tasmania between Launceston and Deloraine.

$840m to build the Greater Adelaide Freight Bypass. WFH backflip

$245m for Barron River Bridge in North Queensland

Greens:

Make parks, schools, libraries, active and public transport accessible

High speed rail network from Brisbane to Melbourne by 2040

First Nations

Labor:

$842.6 million over six years for the Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Investment

$70.9m for Indigenous Business Australia’s Indigenous Home Ownership Program

Liberals:

Full audit of all government programs and expenditure in Indigenous affairs

Launch a Royal Commission into Sexual Abuse in Indigenous Communities

Greens:

Establish a National Truth and Justice Commission and consult on models for a national treaty or treaties

Stronger cultural heritage laws

Overhaul the Native Title Act

National Security/Defence

Labor:

Bring forward $1bn in Defence spending

Continue diplomatic focus on building relationships with Pacific region

Liberals:

Supports raising defence spending with a figure yet to be determined

$3b to buy 28 new F-35 fighter jets

Add question on anti-semitism to the citizenship test

Consider a referendum to allow governments to strip citizenship of dual nationals who commit serious offences

$35 million to support the rebuilding of the Adass Israel Synagogue

Greens:

Stop the purchase of AUKUS nuclear submarines

Go to the ALP website for more information.

Go to the Liberal Party website or the Nationals website for more information.

Go to the Greens website for more information.

Originally published as Election 2025: Full list of policies and promises from Labor, Coalition and Greens