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Archive of parliamentary statements and platform divergences tagged with this topic.

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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 education policy areas.

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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. Specific Child Care Subsidy (CCS) rate tables differing from current law are limited in available data.

Liberal Party of Australia

Education and student debt

Liberal platform material emphasises university quality, vocational skills and financially sustainable HELP settings. Distinct alternative indexation formulas are limited in our recorded rows.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation

Childcare and family payments

One Nation emphasises parental choice in care arrangements. Distinct Child Care Subsidy or Parental Leave Pay redesign schedules are not recorded in our database.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation

Education and student debt

One Nation criticises student debt burdens and university funding priorities. Distinct HELP indexation or threshold redesigns are not recorded as numbered schedules in our database.

Recent statements

Tanya Plibersek

Thank you so much, Mr Speaker, and thank you for meeting Conor Pall yesterday. He is a unique young man, as th…

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Zoe McKenzie

Today I rise to celebrate the opening of a renewed multicultural centre in Launceston, Welcome Cultural Servic…

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Aaron Violi

It was an honour to join our local volunteer firefighters and their families at the Montrose Fire Brigade annu…

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Malcolm Roberts

The incorporated speech read as follows— I would like to speak to the House Standing Committee on Education's…

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Zoe McKenzie

Today I rise to congratulate three outstanding athletes from Flinders who represented Australia at the 2026 Co…

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Andrew Leigh

I have to say what a pleasure it is to be speaking in this debate after the member for Banks, Zhi Soon and jus…

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Dean Smith

I came out of a meeting on Monday and checked my phone and had a missed call from none other than the former m…

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Jonathon Duniam

I move the opposition amendment to the report relating to the Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and C…

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Dean Smith

I rise to speak on the Universities Accord (Opening the Doors of Opportunity) Bill 2026. This bill is a lot of…

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Phillip Thompson

We have an idea. We have a policy that should become law. We're going through the process of writing it up now…

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Jason Clare

I thank my friend the formidable member for Forde for his question. Childcare workers do one of the most impor…

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Maria Kovacic

On behalf of Senator O'Sullivan, I move: That the following matter be referred to the Education and Employmen…

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Jason Clare

Prime Minister announced an investment of $3

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Ted O'Brien

I congratulate the Gympie Beef Group for hosting the 2026 Gympie Carcass Classic, which recently celebrated it…

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Jess Walsh

This workforce was neglected and undervalued by those opposite for too long. Educators loved their jobs. They…

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Matt O'Sullivan

I want to begin my short speech by acknowledging the horrific distress and pain of every child and family affe…

SpeechOfficial source7 days ago
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Platform divergences

No divergences for this topic.