The truth about Labor's policy on dividend imputation credits: You might have heard a lot of lies from Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg about Labor’s policy on dividend imputation credits. Here are the facts on Labor’s policy so you can read the truth for yourself. What is Labor’s policy? A Shorten Labor Government will make...

The original Labor National Broadband Network would have delivered optic fibre to 93 per cent of homes and businesses, providing speeds of up to one gigabit per second on a network easily scalable to much higher speeds in the future. In 2013, Malcolm Turnbull scrapped Labor’s world class fibre-to-the-premises NBN. Instead the Liberals are building...

A Shorten Labor Government will deliver child care support that is fairer and will make early education and care more affordable for families. Our package will give parents the early education and care relief they need now – from 1 January 2017. Under Labor’s plan: Low and middle income families will benefit from an increase...

Labor will give the independent Parliamentary Budget Office ('PBO') an enhanced role in Australia’s macroeconomic reporting to promote stronger fiscal discipline and enhance transparency around Commonwealth Budgets. Under Labor, an enhanced Parliamentary Budget Office will: prepare the macroeconomic forecasts that underpin all key Budget statements and updates; prepare and publish the Intergenerational Report every five...

Australia needs to improve its trade performance. As the Australian economy transitions out of the mining boom we need to find alternative sources of growth and jobs. Lifting – and diversifying – our export performance will be an important part of this strategy. That is why a Shorten Labor Government will pursue trade and investment...