KEVIN RUDD'S PLAN FOR - A New Way - cloudfront.net
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
KEVIN
RUDD’S
PLAN FOR
NEW
SOUTH
WALES
A New Way.
1
A message from the Prime Minister
Jobs Not Cuts – Labor’s Plan for New South Wales
Labor has a clear vision for the future of New South Wales.
It’s a vision for a prosperous economy growing the jobs of the future with a national government
that provides proper funding for services that are fundamental to people’s lives and well-being.
We’ll grow the jobs for the future with our $1 billion Jobs Plan, new apprenticeship incentives
and a Jobs, Training and Apprenticeships Guarantee.
We’ll keep building an education system for the future with our $15 billion Better Schools Plan.
We’ll keep building the health system of the future with further investments in hospitals,
Medicare Locals and aged care.
We’ll keep building DisabilityCare - just like Labor built Medicare - to give people with disability
the support they need and their carers the peace of mind they deserve.
And we’ll build the infrastructure of the future, including finishing the National Broadband
Network, which will wire Australia into the world, providing new opportunities for health,
education and business.
At a time of economic transition, because of the end of the China resources investment boom,
only Labor offers the proven experience to take New South Wales through the next three years.
We’ll return our budget to surplus, but, unlike Mr Abbott, we won’t do it in a way that will
destroy schools, hospitals and jobs.
Labor has a positive plan for New South Wales, a plan that will protect jobs, provide services
and put people first.
Kevin Rudd
Prime Minister
2
KEVIN RUDD’s
POSITIVE plan for NEW SOUTH WALES
1. Grow jobs and the build the new industries of the future
• A $1 billion plan for jobs beyond the mining boom so all our eggs aren’t in the one
basket.
• A Jobs, Training and Apprenticeships Guarantee to make sure jobseekers are linked to
jobs and the training they need.
• Help for Australian firms to win at least an extra $1.8 billion a year in work on big
projects, and new opportunities for apprentices.
• Tax breaks for 3.2 million Australian small businesses.
• Keep Australia’s AAA credit rating and stop Mr Abbott’s $70 billion of Budget cuts that
would hurt services and families.
2. Better schools with more one-on-one attention for our kids
• An extra $1.6 million on average for every school across the nation.
• Extra individual literacy assistance for up to 1.1 million students.
• The Schoolkids Bonus to parents of $410 per primary and $820 per secondary student
helping around 400,000 NSW families with back-to-school costs.
• Boost skills with over 510 Trades Training Centres already announced around the
country, 263 are already up and running, including 58 new Trade Training Centres that
will benefit 71 schools in New South Wales.
3. World class infrastructure to build the businesses of tomorrow
• An NBN to connect Australian homes and businesses to world-class high speed
internet.
• Continue delivering our $60 billion of investments in new road, rail and public transport
infrastructure around Australia, including major projects in NSW.
4. A world class health and hospital system
• $47.9 billion in hospitals and health infrastructure in NSW since 2007.
• $122 million for critical hospital infrastructure and equipment at the Westmead Hospital
and Medical Research precinct.
• More than $268 million to tackle dementia as part of Federal Labor’s historic $3.7 billion
aged care reforms.
5. A stronger community and a fair go for all
• DisabilityCare Australia to support around 150,000 people in NSW with disabilities and
their carers.
• Protect the Penalty Rates and Overtime pay that up to 309,000 NSW workers rely on.
• Cost of living relief, including terminating the carbon tax to save families $380 next year.
• Increasing the Superannuation Guarantee from 9 per cent to 12 per cent, boosting
retirement savings for 8.4 million Australians.
This plan represents just part of Labor’s positive plan to build the future.
For more information, visit www.alp.org.au.
3
1. Grow new jobs and build the new industries of the future
Kevin Rudd will keep the economy strong while protecting jobs, maintaining fair wages and
conditions and investing in health and education.
With the end of the China resources investment boom, we need to find a new way. We must
work together - governments, businesses and unions - to make Australia more competitive.
Federal Labor’s plan includes:
• Delivering our $1 billion Aussie jobs program to ensure Australian companies
improve their competitiveness, win new exports and get fair access to major projects.
• A Jobs, Training and Apprenticeships Guarantee to make sure jobseekers are
linked to jobs and the training they need to get local jobs. This transforms our
employment services from a safety net onto a springboard to a good job
• New requirements for government-funded building projects to provide
training and apprenticeships, creating new opportunities for skilled jobs.
• Supporting Australian firms to win at least an extra $1.8 billion a year in
work on big projects and make sure they aren’t locked out of work through
measures such as the use of unfair standards.
• Establish a Medical Technologies Innovation Partnership - which will be
headquartered in Macquarie Park – to grow one of the key industries of the future.
• New training places for 6,800 manufacturing workers and 5,800
community services workers, including early childhood educators, nurses, and
disability support carers.
• Tackling youth unemployment through the $35 million Step into Skills program,
providing targeted training to more than 8,900 disadvantaged young people across
Australia.
• New incentives for Australia’s small businesses to invest, grow and
create jobs:
- A Small Business Investment Boost to provide an immediate tax
deduction for small businesses to purchase eligible assets costing up to
$10,000.
- Allowing small business to lodge GST returns once a year rather than four
times a year, benefiting 1.35 million businesses with a GST turnover under
$20 million a year.
- Cutting red tape by extending the free Small Business Superannuation
Clearing House to businesses with less than 100 employees and having
Centrelink directly pay Paid Parental Leave to eligible employees for
businesses with less than 20 employees.
• A Future Navy Taskforce to explore opportunities to open Garden Island for exciting
new uses such as providing berths for the burgeoning cruise ship industry and
development of inner-city commercial precincts, public spaces and tourist attractions.
4Labor’s record of achievement on jobs and the economy
Since 2007, Federal Labor has delivered:
• Strong growth: Our economy is nearly 14 per cent larger than when Labor came to
office, whereas many advanced economies are still smaller than they were prior to
the GFC.
• AAA credit rating: Australia has received a AAA credit rating with a stable outlook
from all three ratings agencies. We are amongst only eight nations in the world to
have this.
• Low unemployment rate (5.7 per cent): Australia’s unemployment rate is less
than half that of Europe’s (12.1 per cent) and is below that in most other advanced
economies.
• Exceptional job creation record: Nearly 1 million jobs have been created since
Labor came to office, while the number of unemployed worldwide has increased by
28 million over the same period.
• Low interest rates: Interest rates are currently sitting at 2.5 per cent - lower than
they were at any time under the former Coalition Government. This means a family with
a $300,000 mortgage is paying around $6,000 less in repayments a year.
• Contained inflation: Underlying inflation is in the middle of the RBA’s target band
(2.4 per cent).
• Investment: There has been more than $1 trillion dollars of business investment in
our economy since Labor came to office in 2007.
• Very low debt: Net debt as a per cent of GDP peaking around an eighth of the level
across major advanced economies.
52. Better schools with more one-on-one attention for our kids
Federal Labor’s plan will ensure every young Australian gets the best possible education so
they can secure the jobs of the future.
Our plan includes:
• Delivering our $15 billion Better Schools Plan that will:
- Ensure students get more one-on-one attention for our kids.
- Provide an extra $1.6 million on average for all schools across Australia.
- Help our kids compete with Asia and secure high skill, high paid jobs.
• Under Labor’s Better Schools Plan, New South Wales schools will benefit from
$5 billion in extra funding over the next six years – only Labor is committed to
the full amount of additional investment.
• Continue rolling out our 10 year $2.5 billion Trades Training Centres in Schools
Program, giving secondary students access to industry relevant training and skills.
- In the latest round New South Wales schools will benefit from 58 new Trades
Training Centres, benefitting 71 New South Wales schools.
• Investing more than $30 million to ensure our children are taught by the best
and brightest – because we know the biggest influence in improving educational
outcomes is the teacher standing in front of the classroom.
• Investing $450 million to provide parents with more outside school hours
places, more flexible hours and better activities for kids making it easier for parents on
the daily drop off and pick up. Around 19,000 extra New South Wales students could
benefit from this initiative.
• Investing $20 million in a new NBN: Connecting Classrooms fund to help
schools across the country take full advantage of the NBN. At least 1,000 schools will
benefit from grants of up to $20,000 to help schools get the equipment needed to
leverage the benefits of the NBN, for example through creating virtual classrooms.
• Enhancing the mychild website to make it easier for parents to easily identify the
child care services available in their area, along with a new service to enable parents to
be notified when a place becomes available.
• Investing $6 million to expand access to, and enhance the quality of, community
language lessons – this will benefit around 500 community languages schools and
approximately 90, 000 students.
• Keeping access to a university education open to all Australian students
through our demand driven funding system.
6Labor’s record of achievement on education
Since 2007, Federal Labor has delivered:
• Record investment in our schools: Almost doubled investment – this year we are
investing more than $14 billion in schools, compared to $9 billion in the last Coalition
Government budget.
• Revitalised school facilities right around New South Wales: Almost $5 billion
in around 7,150 projects in local schools, including building or upgrading:
- 159 Science and/or Language Centres.
- 748 libraries.
- 1,432 classrooms.
- 923 Multi-Purpose Halls.
• Provided unprecedented support for students with a disability: We have
invested an extra $300 million to help students with disability and learning difficulties,
giving schools greater access to classroom support and specialised equipment.
• Boosted investment in skills: Investing over $19 billion in funding over the past five
years and introducing a national training entitlement under the $1.75 billion Skills
Reform National Partnership.
• Built new Trades Training Centres: Through our $2.5 billion Trades Training
Centres in Schools Program we’ve already announced 510 new Trades Training
Centres benefitting 1,290 schools.
- $438 million has already been committed for 198 Trades Training Centres in
New South Wales benefitting 388 schools.
• Improved the quality of early childhood education and care: We introduced
the National Quality Framework - lifting the quality of early childhood education and
child care with improved child to staff ratios and new qualifications standards.
• Supporting parents with the cost of child care: In 2011-12 around $1.3 billion
was provided to New South Wales parents through the Child Care Benefit and the Child
Care Rebate.
- New South Wales parents benefitted from an extra $265 million last financial
year because of our decision to lift the Child Care Rebate from 30 per cent to
50 per cent.
• Ensuring every New South Wales child gets access to 15 hours of
kindergarten: Through an investment of $491 million.
• Opened up access to university: There are now an extra 190,000 students
studying at university compared to when we came to office.
- There are 27 per cent more Commonwealth Supported Places in New South
Wales than when we came to office.
• More funding for universities: Funding is projected to increase to $14 billion in
2013 - $6 billion more than in 2007. Funding has increased by around 64 per cent for
universities in New South Wales since 2007.
• Invested in cutting edge research: We’ve invested over $5 billion in higher
education and research infrastructure since coming to office.
73. World class infrastructure of the future
Under Federal Labor Australia has made record investments in the nation’s infrastructure,
including safer roads, better ports and rail, and improvements to our metropolitan public
transport network. We are also delivering the National Broadband Network for all families and
to build the businesses of tomorrow.
The Federal Labor plan includes:
• Delivering the high speed National Broadband Network, creating the opportunity
for new industries to emerge and enabling businesses - big and small - to flourish.
• Continuing to roll out the $60 billion Nation Building Program to build modern,
well-planned road, rail and public transport infrastructure.
• Continuing to invest in building projects - all up, we have already increased federal
spending on the nation’s transport infrastructure from $132 to $225 per
Australian.
• Continuing to make sure regional communities get their fair share, with almost two
thirds of our infrastructure funding going to projects outside our big cities. In fact
we’ve doubled spending in regional Australia.
• $52 million to establish a new High Speed Rail Authority which will finalise the track
alignment and station locations in consultation with the governments of Victoria, New
South Wales, Queensland and the ACT.
• $50 million to be provided as ‘seed’ funding to attract private sector partners to build
and operate the Maldon to Dombarton Rail Link project.
• Continuing to support important local and regional projects, such as:
- $9.5 million towards the development of a Regional Tennis Centre in Blacktown.
- $200,000 to fund the installation of CCTV Cameras in Eastwood.
- $850,000 towards a new pavilion at Parramatta Rugby Club’s home ground at
Granville Park, Merrylands.
- $1 million to upgrade Edwards Park, the home ground of the Concord
Soccer Club.
- $250,000 towards the refurbishment of the Riverwood Community Centre.
- $10 million for the establishment of a state-of-the-art Johnny Warren Football
Institute in Western Sydney.
- $1 million towards upgrades at Hurstville Oval.
- $1.25 million for the Gerringong Library, Museum and Community Facility
project.
- $2.2 million to advance a revolutionary technology developed at the University
of Wollongong for clean energy.
- $350,000 in funding towards upgrading facilities at the Quakers Hill Tigers
Soccer Club.
- $500,000 for the complete refurbishment of facilities at Centenary Park in
Croydon.
- $16 million to Randwick City Council for the development of a High
Performance Community Centre at Heffron Park in Maroubra, in conjunction
with the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
- For more local projects visit www.alp.org.au
8Labor’s record of achievement in infrastructure
Since 2007, Federal Labor has:
• Instituted an unprecedented $60 billion Nation Building Program to build the
modern, well-planned road, rail and public transport infrastructure that will make
working people’s lives easier, our businesses more competitive and the Australian
economy more productive:
- Doubled the roads budget and initiated the biggest road construction
program since the creation of the national highway network almost forty years
ago.
- Rebuilding more than a third of the Interstate Rail Freight Network – some
4,000 kilometres of track.
- Committed more funding to modernising urban passenger rail
infrastructure than all our predecessors since Federation combined.
• Through our Nation Building Program, Federal Labor is investing an
unprecedented $23.4 billion in modernising NSW’s road, rail and public
transport infrastructure.
• Established Infrastructure Australia to ensure we have a transparent, competitive
and national infrastructure market.
• Started rolling out the National Broadband Network, with over 75,000 Australians
using the NBN today. The NBN has been switched on in a number of regional and
urban sites in every State and Territory in the country.
• Invested in local projects that make a real difference, including:
- Pacific Highway Duplication: Upgrades of the Pacific Highway between
Newcastle and the QLD border.
- Sydney Motorways upgrade: Including the extension of the M4 and M5 and
the Missing Link between the F3 and M2.
- Hunter Expressway: A new road linking the New England Highway and the
F3 in the Hunter region.
- Great Western Highway: Targeted upgrades to reduce congestion and
improve safety.
- F3 Productivity Package: A package of four projects that includes the
widening of the F3 between Tuggerah and Doyalson and between Kariong to
Somersby and capacity improvements to the Kariong Interchange ramps, and
the Weakleys Drive intersection.
- Port Botany Upgrade Program: The removal of the rail level crossing at the
General Holmes Drive.
- Port Botany rail line upgrade: Upgrade of the Port Botany Rail Line to
improve access and connectivity between the port and the future Moorebank
Intermodal Terminal.
- Bolivia Hill: The realignment of three kilometres of the New England Highway
at Bolivia Hill to improve safety.
- Scone Level Crossing: Fixing congestion and safety issues around the level
crossing along the New England Highway in Scone.
- Mt Ousley upgrades: This project will involve the construction of two new
northbound and two new southbound climbing lanes on Mt Ousley Road
between Bulli Tops and Picton Road interchange.
- Kapooka Bridge: The replacement of the Kapooka Bridge on the Olympic
Highway and the removal of sharp curves on approach.
- Newell Highway overtaking lanes.
- Tourle Street bridge and Cormorant Road: The duplication of the Tourle
Street bridge.
- Upgrade to the interstate rail network.
94. A world class health and hospital system
Federal Labor’s plan will deliver a stronger, fairer health and aged care system for the future.
Our plan includes:
• Establish a $50 million national network of Stroke Care Coordinators across
Medicare Local networks in every state and territory to help stroke patients transition
from hospital to home and get the support they need in their local community.
• Investing $15 million for a network of cancer care nurse coordinators to be
based in regional cancer centre projects across the country, including six in New South
Wales. The cancer care nurse coordinators will provide vital information, care and
support to patients who have been diagnosed with cancer, their families, carers and
staff.
• Investing more than $190 million in health and medical research, including a
$125 million fund to help Australian researchers translate their innovative ideas into
commercial success, and grants to the University of Sydney, University of Newcastle
and the University of New South Wales to support research in priority health areas such
as ageing, mental health, Indigenous and preventative health.
• Delivering our record $2.2 billion mental health reform package, expanding the
highly successful headspace initiative to 100 centres across the country, providing
additional funding to support critical services delivered by BeyondBlue and Lifeline and
supporting workplace mental health through innovative new programs and services,
providing a major boost to people with a mental illness, their families and carers.
• Providing $100 million to commence a comprehensive redevelopment of
Westmead Hospital, the first major upgrade since the hospital was built in 1978, and
which could include a new building to bring complex and critical patient care services
into one location, and expanding and improving outpatient care and community health
facilities.
• Providing a $12 million capital investment to the Westmead Millennium
Institute for the next stage in construction of a new medical research and education
facility, and $10 million to the Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) to
complete Stage 1 of the CMRI Westmead redevelopment, which will allow CMRI’s
facilities to expand from 5,000 to 9,000 square metres and boost its workforce from
120 to 200 medical researchers.
• Supporting better asthma emergency awareness and training by investing
$10.5 million for improved asthma response measures in schools, general practice
surgeries and disadvantaged communities across all states and territories.
• Investing around $30 million for a major new prevention program and
research to address increasing rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and
blood borne viruses including HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C, including $4 million for a
new Minister’s Research Fellowship in Ending HIV at the Kirby Institute for Infection and
Immunity in Society at the University of New South Wales.
• Providing critical hospital infrastructure in Sydney’s west, including $22 million
for urgent upgrades to St George Hospital, $10 million for a linear accelerator and
mammogram machine at the Nepean Hospital and $6 million for a full MRI license at Mt
Druitt hospital.
• Delivering more than $268 million to tackle dementia and provide additional care
and support to patients, their families and carers as part of the Federal Labor
Government’s historic $3.7 billion aged care reforms.
10Labor’s record of achievement on health and hospitals
Since 2007, Federal Labor has delivered:
• More money – Investing an extra $20 billion in our hospitals to 2020.
• More doctors and nurses – 11,000 more doctors, 26,000 more nurses, and more
doctors in regional areas.
• Bricks and mortar – More than $8 billion in around 1300 building projects to support
local hospitals, community health services, medical research and education and
training of Australian health professionals.
• Medicare – The biggest investment in Medicare in Australian history – around $35
billion in 2013-14.
• More local health services and health workers – $1.8 billion for Medicare
Locals to plan and fund extra health services in local communities across Australia
- supporting more than 3,000 frontline health workers, including around 966 GPs,
nurses, mental health workers, physiotherapists, immunisation officers and Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander health workers across New South Wales.
• Higher bulk-billing rates – Record GP bulk-billing rates of over 82 per cent. In
contrast, when Tony Abbott was health minister, GP bulkbilling rates were as low as 67
per cent.
• Better regional health services – More than $116 million for regional cancer centre
projects in New South Wales, including services in Tamworth, Armidale, Coffs Harbour,
the Shoalhaven, Wollongong and Lismore.
• More medicines – Over $5 billion in new medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits
Scheme to ensure Australians can get access to high quality medicines at a cost
individuals and the community can afford.
• Health and medical research – More than $3.5 billion through the National Health
and Medical Research Council since 2008, supporting over 8,500 researchers working
to improve Australia’s health outcomes, and including more than $113 million to fund
health and medical research into dementia.
• Better dental care – $1.6 billion dollars for better public dental services, taking
400,000 Australians off public dental waiting lists immediately and building a system
that invests in prevention, not just treats crises.
• Better cancer prevention, detection, treatment and cure – Over $4.1 billion
committed to improve the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer, including
almost $2 billion on new and amended cancer medicines.
• More support for youth mental health – Additional headspace mental health
services, supporting young people in New South Wales in Campbelltown, Gosford,
Port Macquarie, Wagga Wagga, Nowra, Maitland and other areas, and the introduction
of the innovative eheadspace initiative which allows young people to get support and
advice over the phone and online, no matter where they live.
115. Stronger communities and a fair go for all
Kevin Rudd has a positive plan to build fairer workplaces and stronger communities by
protecting penalty rates and Australia’s safety net.
Our plan includes:
• Fair workplaces of the future:
- Protecting Penalty Rates and Overtime pay that up to 309,000 NSW
workers rely on.
- Ensuring Australian workers continue to be protected from unfair
dismissal.
• Taking the pressure off families:
- Protecting the Schoolkids Bonus from Tony Abbott’s cuts, which is helping
around 400,000 families in NSW with the costs of sending their kids to school.
- Keeping the economy strong to deliver lower interest rates – a family with a
$300,000 mortgage is now paying around $6,000 a year less in repayments
than when Labor came to office.
- Terminating the carbon tax while still tackling climate change to give
families cost of living relief to the value of $380 next year. In contrast,
Tony Abbott's Direct Action scheme would cost families an extra $1,200 when
fully implemented.
- $450 million to expand Out of School Hours Care, a $450 million fund that
will benefit up to 500 schools over the next four years. Nationally, around
345,000 children – mainly in primary school – are expected to benefit from
the initiative.
• Support for people with disabilities:
- Delivering DisabilityCare to give people with disability the support they
need and their carers the peace of mind they deserve. We are delivering
$14.3 billion in new funding to roll out across the country by mid-2019, on top
of existing Commonwealth disability funding.
• More income for Australians in retirement:
- Increasing the Superannuation Guarantee from 9 per cent to 12 per
cent, boosting retirement savings for around 2.5 million NSW workers. For a 35
year-old plumber, Labor’s Superannuation Guarantee increase adds up to over
$74,000 by the time they retire; for a 22 year-old hairdresser that adds up to
almost $100,000 by the time they are 67.
- Maintaining fair franking arrangements so that self-funded retirees do not
suffer a cut to their incomes.
12Our achievements in delivering
a fair go and stronger communities
Since 2007, Federal Labor has delivered:
• Fairer workplaces and almost one million new jobs:
- Abolished WorkChoices and delivered the Fair Work Act.
- Delivered Paid Parental Leave and flexibility for working families.
- Delivered the strongest protections for workers’ entitlements ever seen in
Australia for when an employer becomes bankrupt or insolvent.
• Cost of living relief for families:
- Lower interest rates mean an Australian family on a $300,000 mortgage will pay
around $6,000 a year less in repayments than when Labor came to office.
- The Schoolkids Bonus to help families with the costs of sending their kids to
school, with $410 for each primary school student and $820 for each
secondary school student to help cover the cost of books, stationery, computer
equipment and school uniforms.
- We boosted the Childcare Rebate from 30 per cent to 50 per cent for out-of-
pocket childcare expenses, providing families with up to $7,500 per child each
year towards childcare costs. Out-of-pocket child care costs for a family
earning $75,000 a year have reduced from 13 per cent of disposable income in
2004, to 8 per cent under the Rudd Labor Government.
- Tax cuts for working families – someone earning $50,000 is now paying $2,000
less in income tax than they were before Labor came to office in 2007.
- The largest pension increase in Australia’s history – Since September 2009, an
increase in the maximum rate of pension of around $207 per fortnight for
singles and $236 per fortnight for couples combined.
- Household assistance package – Giving families on FTB-A up to $113 a year
per child and families on FTB-B up to an extra $69 a year, as well as tax cuts, to
help with the modest increase in costs associated with the carbon price.
• Better support for people with disabilities:
- Doubled existing Commonwealth funding for support services for people with
disability.
- Invested more than $370 million in early intervention services for children with
disability.
- Invested $160 million in supported accommodation for people with disability.
- Increased the pension in 2009 including for around 800,000 Disability Support
Pension recipients and around 200,000 Carer Payment recipients.
• Support for rural and regional communities:
- Delivered the Regional Development Australia Fund, which has invested more
than $850 million to leverage projects worth more than $2.7 billion. Already
76 projects are underway or completed, ensuring people living in rural and
regional Australia are getting the services and support they need.
- Provided more than $250 million in Community Infrastructure Grants to build
priority local projects such as upgrades to local sporting and recreational
community infrastructure.
13IF ABBOTT WINS, NSW LOSES
We believe we must build for the future – by investing in new industries and new jobs – while all
Mr Abbott does is cut to the bone. Tony Abbott has already said he will make
these cuts in NSW:
• Compared to our Better Schools Plan, on average schools in NSW will be worse off
by around $920,000.
• More than 400,000 eligible families in NSW will lose the Schoolkids Bonus – a
typical family with two kids will be $15,000 worse off over the period of their kids’
schooling.
• Over 2.5 million people in NSW will lose years of super savings. For a 35 year-
old plumber Labor’s Superannuation Guarantee increase adds up to over $74,000 by
the time they retire; for a 22 year-old hairdresser that adds up to almost $100,000 by
the time they retire at 67.
• Around 994,000 people in NSW, mostly women, would lose up to $500 every year if
the Low Income Superannuation Contribution is slashed.
• Over 320,000 young people, single parents and the unemployed in NSW will lose
extra help (the Income Support Bonus) – every year eligible singles would lose
$210, eligible couples would lose $350.
• Abbott's proposed Direct Action scheme would cost over 2.4 million households in
NSW an extra $1,200 each when fully implemented.
• Abbott would cut 17 Medicare Locals in NSW which employ around 1,000
frontline health workers which are delivering important health services.
• Over 309,000 people in NSW work in occupations that could have their penalty
rates and overtime cut by Tony Abbott.
• There are over 112,000 Australian Government employees in NSW whose jobs
are at risk under Mr Abbott’s public service cuts.
• There are over 6,500 automotive workers who could lose their jobs due to cuts to
automotive industry assistance, as well as over 26,000 jobs in related sectors
that would be put at risk.
• Mr Abbott wants to cut the NBN. This means that around 1.1 million homes and
businesses in NSW would not get the NBN but have to rely on last century’s copper
for their internet connection or pay up to $5,000 for a superfast fibre connection which
Labor delivers for free.
The Coalition needs to make $70 billion of cuts
– what else will Mr Abbott cut in NSW?
14WHAT WE’RE BUILDING IN NSW,
WHAT TONY ABBOTT WILL CUT
We are delivering What Tony Abbott will
for NSW cut in NSW
JOBS
We will grow the new jobs and build the Mr Abbott says he will cut jobs and just
new industries of the future by increasing wave goodbye to our manufacturing
Government support for the car industry to industry and send it overseas.
give it the critical certainty it needs to invest There are over 6,500 auto workers in
in Australia. NSW whose jobs could go.
SCHOOLS
We’ve delivered around $5 billion for
over 7,150 BER projects in NSW. Mr Abbott would make cuts to education.
This includes the building or upgrading of Compared to our Better Schools Plan,
1,432 classrooms, 748 libraries, 923 schools in NSW would be $920,000
multipurpose halls and 159 science worse off on average if Abbott wins.
and/or language centres.
SCHOOLKIDS BONUS
Around 400,000 families in NSW are Mr Abbott has said he will cut the
receiving the SchoolKids Bonus which Labor SchoolKids Bonus - a typical family with
delivered. two kids will be $15,000 worse off
over the period of their kids’ schooling if
Tony Abbott has his way.
NBN
There are already around 261,000 homes Mr Abbott wants to cut the NBN. This
and businesses in and around NSW means that the approximately
where the NBN fibre network is already 1.4 million homes and businesses
under construction or complete. in and around NSW that would have got
the NBN will have to rely on last century’s
copper for their broadband.
HEALTH
We are investing in health. We have already In NSW, Mr Abbott will cut around
invested $26.57 billion in health and 1,000 frontline health workers in
hospitals infrastructure in NSW since 17 Medicare Locals including GPs,
2007. psychologists, nurses and midwifes. These
health workers are delivering services
including nursing, mental health and GP
after hours services.
15WWW.ALP.ORG.AU
Authorised by G. Wright, Australian Labor Party, 5/9 Sydney Avenue, Barton ACT 2600.
Printed by Kosdown Printing,10 Rocklea Dr Port Melbourne VIC 3207.
16You can also read
