Labor’s Your Child. Our Future represents the most significant improvement in schools education in Australia for two generations. Improving education is the key to opportunity, to innovation and to the future economic and social prosperity of our nation. No matter what their background, no matter where they live - city, suburb or in the regions...

Labor has launched a new booklet outlining fifty practical policies it will take into the 2016 federal election. A year ago, ALP leader Bill Shorten said Labor would be defined by the power of its ideas and over the course of 2015, the Opposition has rolled out more than fifty practical and positive policies. “These...

Labor will provide an additional $2 million a year to peak disability advocacy organisations so people with disability have a powerful voice on the issues that matter to them. This funding will give certainty to peak disability advocacy organisations that had their funding slashed by the Liberals just before Christmas last year. It will also...

A Shorten Labor Government will further curtail Australia’s biggest preventable cause of disease and death by raising tobacco excise to bring it in line with world’s best practice. Tobacco excise If a Shorten Labor Government is successful at the next election Labor will introduce four annual 12.5 per cent increases in excise on: 1 September...

A Shorten Labor Government will establish a National Redress Scheme for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. The establishment a National Redress Scheme is a key recommendation of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and is a critical part of the process of healing. Labor will contribute $33 million to the...