Election 2025: Agriculture and regional Australia policies from Labor, Coalition, Greens

Here’s your one-stop shop for all the policies and promises the major parties are making for regional Australians.

With Prime Minister Anthony Albanese firing the starting pistol on a five-week election campaign, The Weekly Times has you covered with all the policies and promises the major parties are making for regional Australians.

Read what each party is proposing to help you inform your vote on May 3.

Return back here to see the latest announcements as they come in over the five-week campaign.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will crisscross the country over the coming five weeks. (Photo by TRACEY NEARMY / AFP)

LABOR

- $10m to establish a new weather radar in regional Queensland (bipartisan support)

- $95m assistance package for the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme (TFES)

- National Food Strategy and Food Council, including looking at biofuels strategy

- Universal Outdoor Mobile Obligation legislation in late 2025 to expand the universal service framework to include mobile coverage

- Provide additional $150 in energy bill relief for every Australian household (announced in budget)

- $20m to support Australian producers through the Buy Australian campaign (announced in budget)

- $23.8m to sponsor agricultural trade events, with the majority going to Beef Australia

- $130m for Rex Airlines, comprising $50m on covering debt owed to Rex’s largest creditor, as well as $80m loan facility to the airline administrators (announced in budget)

- $1.1bn for the Western Highway, $100m of which was singled out to upgrade the Brewery Tap Road intersection near Ballarat (announced in budget)

- $7.2bn for upgrades on the Bruce Highway in Queensland (announced in budget)

- Legislation to ban supermarkets from price gouging, with a new taskforce to determine what unfair pricing practices are

- Extend the instant asset write-off of $20,000 for another year

COALITION

- $10m to establish a new weather radar in regional Queensland (bipartisan support)

- Increase the instant asset write-off to $30k and enshrine it in legislation

- Repeal the live sheep export phase out

- Scrap scope 3 emissions reporting from climate-related financial disclosure obligations

- Promised to cut public service jobs by 41,000

- Bring back the Agricultural Visa for temporary workers

- Introduce an import container levy to lock in biosecurity funding

- Stop planned changes to superannuation where assets over $3m are taxed

- Safeguard the 88-day rule for backpackers

- No more water purchases in the Murray Darling Basin

- Repeal critical minerals legislation

Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt. Picture: Martin Ollman

GREENS

- Establish Green Agriculture Australia, a $250m R&D centre to drive sustainable farming

- End fossil fuel subsidies for all industries except agriculture

- $100m investment to advance the development of alternative proteins

- $28m over four years to strengthen environmental biosecurity

- $80m in R&D to protect Australia from invasive species

- Subsidise on-farm batteries and renewable energy storage infrastructure with $50m to lower costs and drive adoption

- $75m to support beekeepers impacted by varroa mite

- $50m in R&D for commercial seaweed aquaculture and harvesting in Australia

- $3bn Communications Fund to support regional, rural and remote areas

- End native forest logging

- End the live export trade industry entirely

- End factory farming

- Bring forward ban on caged egg production by 2036