Two years ago the voters of Boothby gave me the honour of being their voice in our Federal Parliament, to listen and be an advocate with the task of delivering a better future for all Australians.
Since then, I am proud to say we haven’t wasted day. Delivering on our mandate to the Australian people on fundamental reforms like, cheaper childcare, fee-free TAFE, establishing a National Anti-Corruption Commission, delivering a tax cut for every single Australian taxpayer and so much more!
Here’s a snapshot of what we have achieved so far!
Along with
- Cutting taxes for every Australian
- Expanding 1800RESPECT services
- Hiring 3,000 new staff to cut the claims backlog and call wait times at Services Australia
- Tackling foreign bribery
- 60-day Prescriptions
- Closing workplace loopholes
- Dementia training for first responders
- Fee-Free TAFE for over 350,000 Australians
- Delivering cost of living relief for apprentices
- Directing $29 million in extra funding to the Royal Flying Doctor Service
- Introducing a Fuel Efficiency standard
- Releasing the Gender Equality strategy
- Helping over 100,000 Australians into home ownership
- Lifting the stalemate on hospital funding
- Ensuring new Australian homes have mobile coverage.
- Creating a National Firearms Registry
- Providing $83.9 million towards the Crack Down on Fraud in the NDIS
- Expanding Trade Support Loans, to provide cost of living relief to apprentices
- Helping grow Australia’s space industry
- Strengthening witness protections for victims and survivors of sexual abuse
- Legislating Superannuation on Parental Leave
- Cracking down on overcharging of NDIS participants
- Creating the1800RESPECT SMS service channel.
- Delivering clean, reliable water to more communities across the Top End
- Approving a new wind farm to power 700,000 homes
- Reforming disability standards to make public transport more accessible.
- Introducing new foreign investment laws to boost housing supply
- Closing the gender pay gap
- Establishing Australia’s first federal Anti-Slavery Commissioner
- Banning Nazi Salutes and Hate Symbols
- Making the biggest investment in Cancer Nurses on record
- Launched Australia’s first national campaign aimed at preventing child sexual abuse
- Delivering Community Battery under the Community Batteries for Household Solar program
- Delivering on the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund
- Doubling indigenous rangers
- Closing labour-hire loopholes
- Upgrading My Health Record, to save time and money
- Launching the MyMedicare program for longer telehealth consultations
- Protecting Australians from online identity theft and tax fraud
- Helping more than 10,000 people in regional Australia into home ownership
- Established the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme
- Delivering the Albanese Government’s Schools Upgrade Fund
- Making the shingles vaccine free for nearly 5 million Australians
- Stamping out dodgy VET Providers
- Delivering a National Apology to Thalidomide survivors and their families
- Delivering more reliable energy for all Australians
- Criminalising wage theft
- Protecting and conserving at least 30% of Australia’s land mass
- The largest pension increase in over a decade
- Abolished the cashless debit card
- Delivering cheaper child care for 96% of families with children in early childhood education
- Extended state and territory access to child dental services program
- Strengthening Australia’s child support scheme
- Passing the Creative Australia Bill, increasing investment and support for Australian musicians
- Criminalising industrial manslaughter
- Cutting packaging waste
- Established the Disaster Ready fund, to deliver long-term resilience
- Enshrined a 43% emissions reduction target by 2030 in law
- Taking action to eliminate workplace sexual harassment
- Opened the nation’s first Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Clinics
- Energy bill relief for older Australians
- Establishing the National Nurse and Midwife Health Service
- Delivering an electric vehicle charging network to connect all of Australia
- Expanding paid parental leave
- Extending the financial safety net for single parents
- Creating 10 days of Family and Domestic Violence Leave
- Delivering water ownership for First Nations
- Establishing 10 new Indigenous Protected Areas
- Opening Medicare Urgent Care Clinics to make it easier for Australians to get the urgent treatment they need – Delivered one in Marion!
- Secured a pay rise for millions of Australians on minimum wage
- Struck an historic agreement to deliver the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in full
- Established the National Anti-Corruption Commission after the Liberals spent 10 years refusing too
- Created the National Emergency Workers Support Service
- Building a reliable national flood warning infrastructure network
- Establishing a National Women’s Health Advisory Council to address stark differences in the health outcomes for women and girls
- Investing $15 million to ensure the National Redress Scheme is properly resourced
- Established the National Reconstruction Fund
- Putting Nurses back into Nursing Homes
- Created the new NRL Pacific Rugby League Championships
- The appointment of Australia’s first Privacy Commissioner
- Delivered an additional $204 million to protect and restore the Great Barrier Reef
- Restoring dignity in Aged Care homes
- Restoring our precious National Parks after a decade of neglect with an extra $262.3 million investment
- Securing the future of TROVE
- Helping more doctors train and work in rural and regional areas
- Improving child safe cultures in sport
- Uncapping satellite broadband for regional and remote Australians
- Legislating Secure Job Better Pay to get wages moving again
- Commencing major reforms to improve teacher training and better prepare teachers for the classroom
- Restoring bulk billed video telehealth psychiatry consultations
- Upgrading and building new truckie rest stops
- Unlocking Australia’s hydrogen potential
- Launching the Veteran Employment Program, a $24 million initiative aimed at boosting veterans’ employment opportunities
- Criminalising Wage Theft
- Wiped the Robodebt of almost 200,000 Australians
- Review of the Grocery Code of Conduct to get a better deal for families and farmers
- Ground work has started on the Major Road Interchange Project
- Turned the sod on the Eden Hills Scouts Hall rebuild
- Delivered over 180 speeches in Parliament as your local MP
- Upgrading Blackwood & Sturt Lions Football Clubs
- Delivering Purrkanaitya – a new Aboriginal Elders Village at Warriparinga
- Constructing a 98-bed tower at Flinders Medical Centre
- Turned the Sod on the Marino Hall rebuild
- Delivered new nets for Coromandel Cricket Club
- Secured funding for upgrades to Blackwood Community RSL
- Funding for Sturt CFS Group
- Upgraded Weaver Street Reserve
- Upgraded Ballara Road Reserve
