We examine Anthony Albanese’s deliberately pared-back, small-target policies for 2022 federal election campaign
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, has been targeting Labor in the lead up to the 21 May election for a lack of policy detail, describing the opposition as a “completely blank page”.
Labor, which ran an ambitious policy agenda at the 2019 election, has deliberately pared back its policy offering as part of a small-target strategy, but has announced several key policies that form the basis of its campaign. While Labor’s official website boasts 24 different policies, the party’s leader, Anthony Albanese’s main focus has been on the care sector, including childcare, aged care, and Medicare. He has also been talking up policies to promote manufacturing in Australia, Labor’s energy policy that will “end the climate wars” and more secure work as priorities.The centrepiece of Albanese’s budget in reply speech was a pledge to fix the crisis in the aged care sector, with a promise to spend an extra $2.
The aged care sector has welcomed the commitments, which fulfil recommendations made by the Royal Commission into aged care, but some groups have asked for more detail.Cheaper childcare is another of Labor’s key campaign messages, with Albanese pledging to lift the maximum childcare subsidy rate to 90% for families for the first child in care, increase subsidies for single-child families earning less than $530,000, and extend the subsidy to outside school hours care.
Labor says that most families will be better off under its reforms, which will cost $5.4bn starting from July 2023.
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