Delivering for women

Cheaper childcare and $1 billion to build new centres.
Expanded paid parental leave (26 weeks up from 18 weeks).
Superannuation on Paid Parental Leave.
Closing the gender pay gap to the lowest on record and increased women’s weekly earnings by $173.80 a week.
Opened 22 endometriosis clinics.
10 days paid domestic and family violence leave.
Record investment to end violence against women.
More housing for women escaping violence.
Expanding support for single parents.
Dedicated funding for miscarriage support.
On track to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035.
Addressed period poverty in remote First Nations communities (free pads and tampons).
Respectful relationships education mandatory in schools.
$200 million investment in women’s sport.

Delivering on health and
aged care

Strengthened Medicare for every Australian.
Tripled the bulk billing incentive, with more than 5.8 million additional free visits to the GP.
Making medicines cheaper by freezing the cost of PBS medicines.
Introduced 60 day prescriptions.
Recruited 17,000+ new doctors, with almost 25% increase in GP training numbers.
87 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics opened (50 more coming).
22 clinics for endometriosis and pelvic pain.
Improved access to medicines, focusing on breast cancer, heart disease and more.
Biggest rights-based reforms in a generation in aged care.
$4.3 billion investment in home support services.
Strengthened powers to investigate and penalise poor care.
15% pay rise for aged care workers.
Registered nurse onsite in aged care 99% of the time on average

Helped 200,000 Australians through the Home Guarantee Scheme – twice what the last Government did.
Passed Labor’s Help to Buy law in the Parliament, getting 40,000 more low and middle-income Australians into home ownership with a smaller mortgage and smaller deposit.
Made back-to-back increases to Commonwealth Rent Assistance.
Improving renters’ rights through National Cabinet.
Passed Labor’s Build to Rent legislation in Parliament, getting an extra 80,000 rental properties into the pipeline.
Through the first round of the Housing Australia Future Fund, we’re delivering more than 13,000 new social and affordable homes around the country.

Additional $2.5 billion federal investment in Victorian public schools (the biggest ever).
Permanent introduction of free TAFE to boost the workforce.
A re-elected Labor Government will cut student debt by 20% (average $5,520 off HECS debt).
Ensuring student debt doesn't grow faster than wages.
New support for students on placement with Commonwealth Prac Payment.
15% pay rise for early childhood educators.
Building 160 new childcare centres.