Helping Australians With The Cost Of Living Is Our Number One Priority

It is the number one issue I hear from people in the Burdekin and across Dawson which is why we need a government that will grow our economy and deliver real cost of living relief for Australians.

Our Labor government is focused on bringing down inflation, increasing wages, and delivering this relief.

Labor has provided tax cuts, energy bill relief, cheaper medicines, student debt relief and more, to help Australians with the cost of living.

But we know we have more to do. So here is what we will deliver:

● More free GP appointments. Labor will make the single largest investment in Medicare ever. This will deliver an additional 18 million bulk billed GP visits every year so Australians can see a bulk billing GP.

● A tax cut for all 14 million Australian taxpayers, on top of our tax relief that is already rolling out.

● By delivering the biggest ever reduction in the cost of PBS prescriptions and freezing the cost of PBS medicines, Labor is making hundreds of medicines cheaper. The most you will pay for a PBS medicine is just $25 a script.

● An additional $150 in Energy Bill Relief for every Australian household and around one million small businesses.

We are also focused on strengthening Medicare and upgrading our key roads.

Labor is boosting hospital funding by $1.7 billion – delivering more money for public hospitals in every state and territory.

We are delivering more doctors and nurses in regions like ours where we need it most.

Labor will grow the health workforce to deliver more doctors and nurses than ever before, including the largest GP training program in Australian history, and hundreds of scholarships for nurses and midwives to extend their skills and qualifications.

I also know how important it is that we get funding for our Bruce Highway.

It is an essential road in our region and it is unacceptable that it’s been neglected for over nine years when the Coalition was in government.

Labor has announced $7.2 billion to upgrade and fix the Bruce Highway, with the priority areas including Bowen to Townsville and Ingham to Innisfail.

This historic funding is the single largest investment ever into the Bruce Highway and it’s fantastic news for our region.

Through all this, we are making sure our careful economic management helps Australians with the cost of living today, at the same time as we set our country up for the future.

Inflation is now less than half of what it was when Labor was elected and interest rates are coming down.

Unemployment is low and debt is down.

Our plan will ensure we are delivering a better future for all Australians, focussed on creating a strong economy and delivering cost of living relief.

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