Policies

• For a carbon price

  54 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For a citizenship test

  1 division edited 6 days ago

• For a fast transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy

  13 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For a federal inquiry into Queensland government administration

  2 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For a Free Trade Agreement with China

  3 divisions edited 9 months ago

• For a minerals resource rent tax

  22 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For a national redress scheme for institutional abuse survivors

  2 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For a plebiscite on the carbon pricing mechanism

  1 division edited over 1 year ago

• For a publicly accessible foreign ownership register for agricultural land

  2 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For a review of parliamentary entitlements

  2 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For a Royal Commission into banking

  3 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For a Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability

  2 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For a same-sex marriage plebiscite

  4 divisions edited 11 months ago

• For Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine

  7 divisions edited about 2 months ago

• For allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income to foreign aid

  4 divisions edited 5 months ago

• For an Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)

  6 divisions edited 12 months ago

• For an emissions reduction fund

  5 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For an NBN (using fibre to the premises)

  4 divisions edited about 3 years ago

• For banning all investment in cluster munitions

  2 divisions edited 9 months ago

• For building Australia’s new submarine fleet in South Australia

  2 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For carbon farming

  8 divisions edited about 3 years ago

• For changing the date of Australia Day

  1 division edited 8 months ago

• For changing the wording of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

  2 divisions edited 7 months ago

• For charging postgraduate research students fees

  4 divisions edited over 2 years ago

• For compensating victims of overseas terrorism since the September 11 attack

  2 divisions edited almost 3 years ago

• For Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs)

  1 division edited 11 months ago

• For creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission

  6 divisions edited about 2 months ago

• For criminalising "revenge porn"

  1 division edited 3 months ago

• For decreasing ABC and SBS funding

  5 divisions edited 5 months ago

• For decreasing availability of welfare payments

  27 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For decreasing the gender pay gap

  3 divisions edited over 2 years ago

• For decreasing the private health insurance rebate

  18 divisions edited about 3 years ago

• For deregulating undergraduate university fees

  5 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For drug testing welfare recipients

  4 divisions edited about 1 month ago

• For encouraging Australian-based industry

  10 divisions edited 8 months ago

• For ending illegal logging

  4 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For ending immigration detention on Manus Island

  10 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For ending immigration detention on Nauru

  13 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For equal treatment for all couples

  3 divisions edited 22 days ago

• For extending government benefits to same-sex couples

  6 divisions edited 22 days ago

• For federal action on public housing

  2 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For funding the national school chaplaincy program

  3 divisions edited almost 3 years ago

• For getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates

  4 divisions edited 5 months ago

• For getting rid of the Gold Travel Pass

  4 divisions edited 8 months ago

• For giving apprentices access to a $20,000 loan

  1 division edited over 1 year ago

• For giving approval for mining in the Liverpool Plains

  2 divisions edited 12 days ago

• For government administered paid parental leave

  7 divisions edited about 3 years ago

• For greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations

  4 divisions edited almost 2 years ago

• For high speed rail on the east coast

  1 division edited about 1 year ago

• For implementing refugee and protection conventions

  33 divisions edited 6 days ago

• For imprisoning immigration detention workers who record or reveal information from their work

  2 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For increasing Aboriginal land rights

  8 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For increasing access to medicinal cannabis products

  3 divisions edited 3 months ago

• For increasing access under Freedom of Information law

  6 divisions edited almost 3 years ago

• For increasing accessibility of government data and documents

  19 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For increasing availability of abortion drugs

  7 divisions edited almost 3 years ago

• For increasing beef import standards

  2 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For increasing competition in bulk wheat export

  7 divisions edited about 3 years ago

• For increasing consumer protections

  22 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For increasing fishing restrictions

  9 divisions edited almost 3 years ago

• For increasing freedom of political communication

  11 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For increasing funding for legal aid

  2 divisions edited 6 months ago

• For increasing funding for road infrastructure

  7 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For increasing funding for university education

  10 divisions edited about 1 month ago

• For increasing housing affordability

  3 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For increasing indexation of HECS-HELP debts

  4 divisions edited over 2 years ago

• For increasing investment in renewable energy

  36 divisions edited 10 months ago

• For increasing investment in the coal industry

  12 divisions edited about 2 months ago

• For increasing marine conservation

  22 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For increasing or removing the Government debt limit

  9 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators

  5 divisions edited 7 months ago

• For increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites

  5 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For increasing protection of Australia's fresh water

  45 divisions edited over 2 years ago

• For increasing restrictions on gambling

  8 divisions edited 7 months ago

• For increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management

  34 divisions edited 6 days ago

• For increasing scrutiny of unions

  7 divisions edited 12 months ago

• For increasing support for community radio and TV

  1 division edited over 2 years ago

• For increasing surveillance powers

  18 divisions edited 11 months ago

• For increasing the age pension

  7 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For increasing the diversity of media ownership

  9 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 15%

  2 divisions edited 11 months ago

• For increasing the initial tax rate for working holiday makers to 19%

  3 divisions edited 11 months ago

• For increasing the passenger movement charge ('PMC')

  3 divisions edited 11 months ago

• For increasing the price of subsidised medicine

  3 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For increasing the price of tobacco

  1 division edited about 1 year ago

• For increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace

  27 divisions edited 6 months ago

• For increasing transparency of big business by making information public

  9 divisions edited almost 2 years ago

• For landholders' right to say no to mining and gas exploration

  8 divisions edited almost 2 years ago

• For letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)

  45 divisions edited 6 days ago

• For letting environmental groups challenge the legality of certain government decisions

  4 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For live animal export

  10 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For local community consultation on infrastructure projects

  3 divisions edited 8 months ago

• For maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding

  3 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For maintaining or increasing defence spending

  2 divisions edited 2 months ago

• For making Australians working overseas repay their student debts

  1 division edited almost 2 years ago

• For making sanitary items GST-free

  2 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For more scrutiny of intelligence services & police

  12 divisions edited 11 months ago

• For more scrutiny of the Australian Defence Force

  2 divisions edited 11 months ago

• For offshore processing of asylum seekers

  2 divisions edited 10 months ago

• For Preventative Detention Orders (PDOs)

  2 divisions edited 11 months ago

• For privatising government assets

  15 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For protecting citizens' privacy

  8 divisions edited 12 months ago

• For protecting the Great Barrier Reef

  15 divisions edited about 2 months ago

• For protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats

  6 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For protecting whales within Australian waters

  3 divisions edited almost 3 years ago

• For protecting whistleblowers

  7 divisions edited 12 months ago

• For public transport

  8 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For putting a time limit on immigration detention

  3 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For putting welfare payments onto restricted debit cards

  5 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For re-approving/ re-registering agvet chemicals

  4 divisions edited about 3 years ago

• For recognising local government in the Constitution

  4 divisions edited about 3 years ago

• For reducing the corporate tax rate

  3 divisions edited 6 months ago

• For refugee family reunification

  3 divisions edited 6 days ago

• For regional processing of asylum seekers

  31 divisions edited 2 months ago

• For removing children from immigration detention

  4 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For removing parallel import restrictions for books

  1 division edited over 1 year ago

• For requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records

  8 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For requiring every native title claimant to sign land use agreements

  2 divisions edited 4 months ago

• For requiring Parliamentary approval of military deployments

  3 divisions edited 11 months ago

• For restricting donations to political parties

  16 divisions edited about 2 months ago

• For restricting foreign ownership

  15 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister

  1 division edited almost 2 years ago

• For same-sex marriage equality

  17 divisions edited 22 days ago

• For Senate electoral reform

  6 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)

  83 divisions edited 6 days ago

• For stem cell research

  6 divisions edited almost 3 years ago

• For stopping people who arrive by boat from ever coming to Australia

  2 divisions edited 11 months ago

• For stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation

  10 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For storing all citizens' telecommunications data for access by government agencies

  3 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For strengthening gun control laws

  3 divisions edited 11 months ago

• For suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)

  69 divisions edited 6 days ago

• For technology neutral emission reduction targets

  1 division edited 4 months ago

• For temporary protection visas

  14 divisions edited 23 days ago

• For the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)

  11 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme

  25 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For the Coalition's new schools funding policy ("Gonski 2.0")

  4 divisions edited 3 months ago

• For the Coalition's Youth Jobs PaTH

  2 divisions edited 5 months ago

• For the Intervention in the Northern Territory

  20 divisions edited almost 3 years ago

• For the use of strong encryption technologies

  2 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For tighter means testing of family payments

  15 divisions edited 6 months ago

• For tobacco plain packaging

  3 divisions edited about 3 years ago

• For treating government action on climate change as a matter of urgency

  7 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For unconventional gas mining

  37 divisions edited about 1 year ago

• For uranium export

  17 divisions edited over 2 years ago

• For using natural resource wealth for the benefit of all Australians

  2 divisions edited over 1 year ago

• For voluntary student union fees

  8 divisions edited almost 2 years ago

See also draft policies.