Federal Election 2025 commitment tracker

Area

Labor  

Liberal and National  

• Taxation: the 16 per cent tax rate for income between $18,201 and $45,000 to drop to 15 per cent from  July 2026, then 14 per cent in July 2027.  Details here.
• Taxation: taxpayers to choose to claim a $1,000 instant tax deduction instead of claiming individual work-related expenses.
• Energy Bill Relief: $150 energy rebates to be extended until the end of 2025.
• Grocery prices: supermarket price gouging to be made illegal; implement recommendations of the ACCC supermarket inquiry report. Details here.  

• Cost of Living tax offset of up to $1200 for low and middle income earners when they lodge their tax returns for the 2025-26 financial year.
• Fuel prices: $6 billion to halve the fuel excise for 12 months from the first day of a Coalition Government.
• Grocery prices: new penalties for price gouging; increased powers for the ACCC; and a supermarket commissioner for suppliers to raise concerns confidentially. Details here.
• Future Generations Fund to pay down national debt, invest in national infrastructure and economic reform from windfall receipts variations each year.

• Regional Australia Future Fund to create a guaranteed, on-going annual funding stream for regional, rural and remote Australia. 
• $100 million for a new Raising the Regions program to deliver new approaches to early childhood education and care in regional and rural areas with limited or no services.

Roads

• Reinstate the 80:20 federal funding model for nationally significant road projects in regional and remote Australia.

• $500 million for regional councils to fix potholes, maintain and improve local roads under the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure (LRCI) Program.

• $600 million to establish a new Agriculture and Mining Roads program.

• An extra $250 million for the Roads to Recovery program to help councils maintain and upgrade local roads.

• Renewable energy to bring the energy grid to 82% renewables by 2030.
• $2 billion expansion of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation for renewables investment.
• $2.3 billion Home Batteries Program reducing the cost installed battery by 30 per cent – with over one million new batteries expected by 2030.

• National Gas Plan: $300 million Strategic Basin Plan; $1 billion Critical Gas Infrastructure Fund. 
• Replace retired coal power stations with  nuclear energy in seven locations, including the Latrobe Valley. Details here.

Telecommunications

• Expand the universal service framework to require mobile carriers to provide mobile voice and SMS almost everywhere across Australia.
• NBN: $3 billion to upgrade the remaining national fibre-to-the node (FTTN) network. (NBN Co to contribute $800m). Guarantee NBN Co will remain publicly owned. 

• Make free TAFE permanent.
• $626.9 million to expand the New Energy Apprenticeships Program to include critical residential construction jobs (included in 2025-26 budget papers).
• $78 million for the  Advanced Entry Trades Training program to fast-track the qualification of 6,000 tradies to help build more homes.
• $10,000 incentive payments for apprentices in construction.

• Apprenticeships:
  • 400,000 apprentices and trainees to be in training nationally;
  • incentive payments for employers to hire an apprentice; and
  • $12,000 for businesses to take on a new apprentice in critical skills areas.

• $260 million for 12 Australian Technical Colleges for students in years 10 to 12 enrolled in a school-based apprenticeship, traineeship or courses that lead to a Year 12 certificate. 

• $500 million funding stream part of the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure (LRCI) Program for local councils to strengthen communities against natural disasters and fund essential infrastructure to support local growth.

• 5 per cent deposits for first home buyers and $10 billion to construct up to 100,000 homes for first home buyers. Details here.
• $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund.
• $49.3 million to scale up existing projects for prefabricated and modular housing construction (included in 2025-26 budget papers).
• $4.9 million for the Regional Home Guarantee and Family Home Guarantee streams of the Home Guarantee Scheme (included in 2025-26 budget papers).
• An extra $800 million in the Help to Buy program (included in 2025-26 budget papers).
• Banning foreign buyers from purchasing existing homes for two years.
• $1 billion fund for crisis and transitional accommodation.

• $5 billion for essential infrastructure to build 500,000 new homes. Details here.
• First home buyers to access up to $50,000 of their super for a home deposit.
• First Home Buyer Mortgage Deductibility Scheme to allow first home buyers to claim a tax deduction on mortgage interest payments for new build homes for the first five years.

• $12 million to support and protect small businesses. Details here.
• Eligible small businesses to receive extra energy bill rebates of $150 until the end of 2025.
• Increasing support available under excise remission scheme for beer and sprit producers and the Wine Equalisation Tax rebate.

• Increase the instant asset write-off from $1,000, to $30,000 and make this arrangement ongoing.
• Deductions of up to $20,000 per year for business-related meal expenses.

• Regional Express: $50 million to acquire debt owed by Rex, and an $80 million loan facility to support the operation of its regional network (already announced).

• $7.9 billion to strengthen Medicare, including
  • higher incentive payments for regional and remote consultations;
  • $644.3 million for the Medicare Urgent Care Clinic Program for 50 new clinics;
  • $32 million to support men’s health; and
  • more GP trainee places in regional and rural areas.

• Medicine: maximum price of PBS medicines to drop to $25.
• $1 billion for mental health including Medicare Mental Health Centres, headspace services, youth care centres and training for mental health professionals.

• $9.4 billion for health initiatives, including
  • more junior doctors to work as GPs;
  • boosting Medicare bulk billing;
  • investing in hospitals;
  • lowering the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme co-payment to $25;
  • $500 million for women’s health;
  • increasing subsidised mental health sessions from 10 to 20;
  • $400 million for youth mental health services.
• $100 million to upgrade regional medical training facilities and deliver 200 additional regional medical Commonwealth Supported Places. Details here.

• $8.6 million to extend the Revive Live program to support Australian live music venues and festivals (included in 2025-26 budget papers).

• $23.8 million for  agricultural trade events.
• $11 million to tackle established feral animals, pests and weeds.
• $3.5 million over two years to develop a National Food Security Strategy. (All included in 2025-26 budget papers)

• Biosecurity: an import container levy to replace the biosecurity protection levy. Proceeds to fund a $2 million pilot to better detect diseases. Details here.

• $14 million to extend wi-fi at evacuation centres under the Strengthening Telecommunications Against Natural Disasters (STAND) program. Details here.