In its first term, the Albanese Labor Government:
- Delivered a tax cut for every Australian taxpayer.
Labor’s bigger and fairer tax cuts are helping Australians keep more of what they earn. We’ve made sure no one gets left behind.
- Is delivering energy bill relief.
The Albanese Labor Government is providing $300 energy bill relief for every Australian household and $325 for small businesses.
- Strengthened Medicare.
Labor tripled the bulk billing incentive for people who need to see their GP most often - helping pensioners, concession cardholders, and families with children.
Labor has restored bulk billing for 11 million Australians, creating an additional 6 million bulk billed GP visits.
- Delivered cheaper medicines.
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 for Australians.
- Cut student debt, and made sure that it never grows faster than wages.
Labor’s has wiped $3 billion in student debt and fixed the way indexation is calculated on student debt, to help with the cost of degrees and the cost of living.
- Free TAFE
Labor’s Free TAFE is changing lives. Labor is delivering close to 600,000 Free TAFE places, helping Australians to gain skills and get ahead. Whether it’s child care or cybersecurity, accounting or aged care – with TAFE, you can be trained without worrying about the cost.
- Delivered cheaper child care.
Labor’s cheaper child care reforms have helped more than one million families with the cost of living. Cheaper child care is providing working families with more choice, and helping children to access high quality early childhood education and care.
- Delivered real wage increases for Australian workers.
Under Labor, real wages are growing again. And with our tax cuts, Australians are keeping more of what they earn.
Not only have we seen three consecutive pay rises for Australian workers on awards, Labor has delivered pay rises for aged care and early childhood education and care workers.