The Greens plan would phase out the CGT discount by 10% each year from 1 July 2016 until there was no longer any discount from 1 July 2020. The Parliamentary Budget Office costings show this measure, combined with our proposal to phase out negative gearing, would generate $7 billion over forward estimates, and $119.5 billion...

The Liberal Party are delivering over 15,000 additional new, real jobs for South Australia through the following initiatives: our decision to build 12 submarines will create 1,100 direct submarine building jobs in Adelaide and a further 1,700 jobs in various parts of the supply chain around the country, including in South Australia our decision to...

A Shorten Labor Government will invest an additional $100 million to support Indigenous students to succeed at school, and boost the number of Indigenous teachers. This is part of Labor’s plan to help close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. Currently, the gap between outcomes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students is unacceptably high. Indigenous...

Tobacco consumption continues to have serious health and economic impacts for individuals, their families and society. Each year in Australia tobacco still kills more than 15,000 people and has more than $31.5 billion in health and economic costs. Results from the 2013 National Drug Strategy Household Survey show approximately 12.8 per cent of Australians -...

Labor will develop a far reaching blueprint required to tackle the serious skills deficits holding back the sector and preventing us from extracting the great economic advantage that comes from embracing innovation. Reflecting the huge local and international demand for skills and talent, we need a National Digital Workforce plan that can meet the needs...