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Topics are assigned during statement analysis and linked to party platform policies. Statements tagged as Other are also matched by content keywords. Use this page to trace how parties and members engage with economy policy areas.

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Party platform policies

Australian Labor Party

Cost of living

Labor has delivered energy bill relief payments, PBS medicine price cuts, and redesigned Stage 3 tax cuts weighted toward lower and middle incomes. Fair Work Act settings and annual wage reviews affect award wages.

Australian Labor Party

Cost of Living Relief

Deliver targeted cost-of-living measures including energy bill relief, cheaper medicines, and tax cuts for working Australians.

Australian Labor Party

Tax and superannuation

Current Labor settings include the Super Guarantee rising toward 12%, Payday Super timing reforms, existing contribution caps, and the redesigned Stage 3 personal income tax cuts. Age Pension income and assets tests remain separate Centrelink rules.

Liberal Party of Australia

Cost of living

The Liberal Party’s recorded platform emphasises lower personal and business taxes, spending restraint, and cheaper energy through a broader mix including gas and nuclear.

Liberal Party of Australia

Economic Responsibility

Pursue lower taxes, reduced government spending, and policies to support small business and private sector growth.

Liberal Party of Australia

Small Business Support

Reduce red tape, lower compliance costs, and incentivise investment in Australian small and medium enterprises.

Liberal Party of Australia

Tax and superannuation

Liberal platform language emphasises lower income taxes and resisting measures seen as punishing self-funded retirees or higher super balances.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation

Cost of living

One Nation links cost-of-living pressure to immigration levels, fuel taxes and energy policy. Detailed Commonwealth payment or tax-cut schedules for households are limited in our recorded rows.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation

Cost of Living Relief

Cut fuel excise, reduce power prices, and oppose policies that increase household energy and grocery costs.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation

Tax and superannuation

One Nation’s recorded stance opposes additional taxes on superannuation and retirees. Concrete alternative rate tables or contribution-cap redesigns are not in our database.

United Australia Party

Economic Recovery

Stimulate growth through tax relief, infrastructure spending, and support for Australian manufacturing.

United Australia Party

Job Creation

Incentivise employers to hire Australians first and reduce reliance on temporary visa labour.

Recent statements

Sam Birrell

Do you realise that my private health rebate is being cut? It's going to affect me badly.

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Amanda Rishworth

Leader of the Opposition has recently heavily criticised the pay increases for aged

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Cameron Caldwell

Sadly, the Australian standard of living has collapsed under this Labor government. It has fallen further and…

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Henry Pike

If the cost of living isn't bad enough already, Labor's change to private health rebates is another burden tha…

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Jim Chalmers

Thanks to the member for Spence for his question, and also for the time that we spent with the young workers i…

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Murray Watt

Thanks, Senator Dolega, and thank you for your many years of advocacy for working Australians—something that's…

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Henry Pike

Productivity is the main game here. We've got our eyes on the prize. We've got a big productivity agenda.

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David Pocock

Well, I want to talk about workers. Workers out there are suffering. They are suffering because their real wag…

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Don Farrell

I thank Senator Polley for her first supplementary question—and it's particular reference to Tasmania—because…

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Don Farrell

I think you can guess where those obstacles are going to be. No country alone can create secure end-to-end sup…

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Jim Chalmers

Prime Minister said, as we are managing the budget more responsibly than those opposite did

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Michelle Rowland

I thank the member for Maribyrnong for her question and acknowledge her ongoing commitment to this government'…

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Jane Hume

The RBA has warned repeatedly that low or negative productivity growth will force it to raise interest rates.…

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Jane Hume

My question is to the minister representing— Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT 1120…

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Tim Wilson

Can I afford anything more when we're already financially drowning?

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Bridget McKenzie

Why haven't you got that development up and going?

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Katy Gallagher

I thank Senator Ghosh for that question. It's an important question about how the government have been managin…

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Sam Rae

I thank the member for Chisholm for her question. She's always been a champion for working people and for the…

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Jane Hume

Under Labor, real wages have fallen back to around 2011 levels, yet yesterday your own leader here in the Sena…

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Dean Smith

Are we going to run out of fuel? Will farmers have enough fertiliser?

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Julian Hill

Can I also thank and commend the previous speaker for sharing that story with the parliament and recording tha…

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Katy Gallagher

Well, we won't be lectured by those opposite about wages. We all sat here for years watching you do absolutely…

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Katy Gallagher

As you've heard in my public comments where I have been asked about this—and I was, extensively, yesterday—I i…

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David Littleproud

The coalition stands with the over three million households that are waiting today, with their breath held, fo…

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Ben Small

At half past two this afternoon, the Reserve Bank hands down its latest decision on interest rates, but, whate…

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Jim Chalmers

I thank the member for Gilmore for her question and for all the work that she does in her beautiful part of Au…

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Anthony Albanese

Leader of the Opposition is: why did he make this man, who argued that interest rates were too low, the shadow…

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Amanda Rishworth

I'd like to thank the member for Hughes for his question and for his commitment to delivering for Australian w…

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Anthony Albanese

I thank the member for Holt for her question. Indeed, just over a year ago, Labor created paid prac, backing A…

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Platform divergences

No divergences for this topic.