The Coalition’s commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease cost of living pressures. Stopping wasteful and unnecessary Government spending will help keep interest rates down. Stopping or removing unnecessary new taxes will help make it easier for you to pay your bills.
Reducing cost of living pressures
The Coalition will:
Stop Labor's new taxes like the Carbon Tax and the Mining Tax. These taxes will damage our national economy, increase prices, make cost of living pressures worse and destroy jobs
Help take the pressure off interest rates by returning the Budget to surplus. Labor’s record $107 billion debt and their wasteful borrowing of $135 million every day is putting unnecessary upward pressure on interest rates.
Protect the Private Health Insurace Rebate, which Labor and the Greens have committed to cut back.
Support families with education costs, by increasing the education tax rebate to $1,000 a year for a child in secondary school and $500 for a child in primary school and make it available for all education expenses.
It’s only by returning to responsible economic management and reducing debt and deficit that practical support for families can again be provided by the Government.
Securing our borders
The Coalition will:
Stop the boats. We’ve done it before and we’ll do it again.
Reintroduce offshore processing for illegal boat arrivals on Nauru and oppose Julia Gillard’s unworkable $300 million ‘Malaysian Solution”.
Unauthorised arrivals will be denied permanent residency by the reintroduction of temporary protection visas. There will be mandatory minimum sentences for people smugglers.
Small Business
The Coalition will:
Support and value small business, the backbone of our country, by rebuilding the economy and getting government out of the way.
Cut red tape and reduce the regulatory burden for business.
Help take the pressure off interest rates and access to finance by again repaying Labor’s debt.
Environment
The Coalition will:
Take direct action to reduce carbon emissions by 5 per cent by 2020 by:
- Creating a fund to buy back greenhouse emissions
- Boosting the carbon content in soil
- Planting more trees on marginal land
- Cleaning up coal-fired power stations
Establish a standing Green army, 15,000 strong, to help the local environment.
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