Peter Dutton outlines coalition position on budget
COALITION POSITION ON FEDERAL BUDGET AND ECONOMY
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has outlined some budget measures the Liberal-National coalition will support, some it will oppose and a raft of alternative policies.
OPPOSED LABOR BUDGET MEASURES
* 10,000 rise in public servant numbers
* Rise in heavy vehicle user charge
* 1.5 million net overseas migration over five years
* Biosecurity levy on farmers
* Higher taxes on super balances over $3 million
SUPPORTED LABOR BUDGET MEASURES
* Extra spending in aged care
* Reducing spending growth in the NDIS (but wants more detail)
* AUKUS security deal and extra defence spending
* Increasing bulk-billing incentives and cheaper medicines
* Expanding the parenting payment
* Boosting spending on the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children
* Raising rent assistance
COALITION POLICIES
* Allowing people to use their super to buy their first home
* Small-scale nuclear power
* Greater use and supply of gas
* Tax cap of 23.9 per cent of GDP in budget.
* Importer container levy to fund biosecurity measures
* Restore subsidised psychology sessions from 10 to 20
* $4 million for Ovarian Cancer Australia
* $5 million to review women-specific health items on the Medicare Benefits Schedule and corresponding treatments on the PBS
* Funding for the Safer Communities Fund
* Double size of the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation
* Royal commission into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities
* Reinstatement of cashless debit card
* Crackdown on scams and financial fraud through new obligations on big digital companies
* Ban sports betting advertising during the broadcasting of games
* Allow job seekers to take home $300 a fortnight and retain the full JobSeeker allowance.