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About this archive
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 education policy areas.
Party platform policies
Australian Labor Party
Childcare and family payments
Labor’s current settings include Child Care Subsidy percentage reforms, expanded Parental Leave Pay weeks, and Family Tax Benefit Parts A/B with income tests.
Australian Labor Party
Education and student debt
Labor’s current settings include HECS-HELP indexation changes (wage-price index approach), Fee-Free TAFE places, and Universities Accord-related higher education directions. HELP repayment thresholds remain income-contingent.
Liberal Party of Australia
Childcare and family payments
The Liberal Party supports families through tax and payment settings and flexible childcare options. They emphasize safety in childcare, including calls for a perpetrator register to protect children. The party is increasingly concerned about the long-term impacts of Labor's economic policies, which they argue could impose higher taxes and financial burdens on families and small business owners.
Liberal Party of Australia
Education and student debt
Liberal platform material emphasises university quality, vocational skills, and financially sustainable HELP settings, while also highlighting concerns about Labor's economic policies potentially increasing financial burdens on families and small business owners.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Childcare and family payments
One Nation emphasises parental choice in care arrangements and opposes Labor's capital gains tax (CGT) discount for foreign investors, advocating for amendments to remove controversial CGT changes that could burden Australian investors and businesses.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Education and student debt
One Nation criticises student debt burdens and university funding priorities, while also emphasizing the need for accountability and transparency in governance. This includes a call for the potential redaction of personal details to ensure integrity in institutions affecting everyday Australians, including farmers and small business owners.
Recent statements
Great to see a lot of smiling faces today as we opened the new classrooms at St John’s Catholic Primary School…
Media Release: Legislation passes Parliament to help students access free support from the National Student Om…
The international student visa system is being exploited as a back-door entry to Australia rather than for gen…
Far too many teachers are actively trying to turn your children into gay communists. https://t.co/JAPRYuA8ZO
This morning I will introduce a bill requiring universities to prevent, combat and respond to antisemitism, us…
This week I met with students, teachers and parents at Bianca Jones' old school. Alongside her friend Holly Mo…
As a young woman, Edith Cowan was denied access to higher education because of her gender. Last night, in th…
“I thought uni was for fancy people.” That’s what Georgia said before she did a FEE-FREE Uni Ready course. T…
Speech: Address to University Chancellors Council Plenary Meeting https://t.co/pD7du8HODI
Pig ignorance. Trashing international education would hurt Australian students, and cut critical research. #au…
Slow going at first, this novel about a high school murder, an internet pile-on, classic movies and how we rem…
Together for Humanity does amazing work in schools, helping to tackle racism before it takes root. Thank you…
Our early educators have one of the most important jobs in the world. And it’s only going to get more importa…
Calling Perth’s young creatives! Years 5 and 6 students can submit artwork inspired by the place they call h…
Recent scientific papers, including one by Dr. Yaakov Ophir from the University of Cambridge and another by Dr…
Little Georgie wrote a speech about why she thinks school is literally the best. I recently read out her spe…
Platform divergences
No divergences for this topic.