Greens
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Statement
Evidence
Score
Introduce a tax on the excess profits of large corporations (e.g. on banks, gas companies)
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens support a superprofits tax on large corporations and multinationals. They also support closing the loopholes that allow these organisations to avoid paying their fair share in tax.
Source:
The Australian Greens Tax Big Corporations & Billionaires | The Australian Greens
Introduce short-term price caps (e.g. on rent and gas prices)
Type: Website / Media Release
Summary: The Greens support the introduction of short-term price caps in rent and have fought for the same on energy bills.
Support a significant reduction of individuals employed by the public service
Prevent big companies from controlling the market and limiting consumer choice (e.g. supermarkets)
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens support reforming regulations in order to increase corporate competition.
Phase out tax concessions for property investors (e.g. negative gearing or capital gains tax discount)
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens support phasing out negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts.
Incentivise state/territory government to increase renter rights and protections
Type: Website / Media Release
Summary: The Greens plan to establish a National Renters Protection Authority and National Tenancy Standards, with incentives for states/territories to adopt them.
Increase investment in public and community housing
Type: Website / Media Article
Summary: The Greens plan to double federal funding to states and territories in order to fund homelessness services and additional public and community housing. They also plan to deliver 610,000 affordable homes over the next decade by establishing a federally owned public property developer to rent and sell homes below market prices. The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) estimated the proposal could cost $40bn over the decade.
Allow first home-buyers to access their super to help purchase their first home
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens do not support allowing first-home buyers to use a portion of their superannuation to buy their first home.
Incentivise state/territory governments to increase housing supply
Type: Website
Summary: double federal funding to states and territories in order to fund homelessness services and additional public and community housing
Help first-home buyers with shared equity programs that would allow participants to co-purchase a home with the government
Type: Media Article
Summary: The Greens supported the current Help-to-Buy legislation, while advocating for more – including funding for an additional 25,000 social and affordable homes (these additions were not passed into legislation).
Introduce energy bill rebates
Type: Parliamentary Speech
Summary: The Greens support an energy bill rebate for every household, but would like to see further action, with Stephen Bates stating: “We've got a $300 power rebate—nice!—but it's not going to actually solve the long-term issues of price hikes due to mass privatisation and price gouging.”
Increase financial support for energy efficiency upgrades
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens support an $8bn package for household/business electrification and incentives for household electrification and installing batteries.
Increase funding for community batteries that increase access to solar
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens support the establishment of a new Commonwealth agency, the Australian Local Power Agency (ALPA), which would help by underwriting projects, including community batteries, to provide long-term project stability.
Strengthen regulations to prevent price-gouging by energy companies
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens support increasing the power of regulators to prevent price-gouging.
Make university free
Cut a portion of existing student debt
Support more fee-free TAFE places
Type: Parliamentary Speech
Summary: The Greens support providing fee free TAFE for all students.
Increase funding for public schools
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens will raise the federal contribution of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) for every public school to 25% in every state and territory (and 40% in the Northern Territory) by July 2026.
Increase funding for and access to childcare subsidies
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens plan to replace the current Child Care Subsidy with a public system, making “early childhood education and care free, universal and high-quality”.
Stop fossil fuel project approvals and expansions
Type: Website / Media Quote
Summary: The Greens’ policy is to stop all new coal and gas approvals and fossil fuel expansions. The Greens’ negotiations around the Safeguard Mechanism suggests that they do not support fossil fuel expansions.
Accelerate the rollout of renewable energy projects
Strengthen policies that ensure Australia’s biggest polluters genuinely cut their emissions
Type: Media Quote
Summary: The Greens supported the current Safeguard Mechanism legislation, while attempting to negotiate for more, including a ban on new coal and gas.
Increase investment in preventative health programs
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens have a range of preventative health measures within their policies. They plan to invest $195 billion into subsidising dental care, and plan to remove session limits and increase rebates on Medicare-funded mental health sessions. They also plan to introduce a nationalised pill testing/drug checking scheme, and invest $1.2 billion into the alcohol and other drug treatment sector, to increase the availability of services which prioritise harm reduction and prevent addiction and illness in the first instance.
Make GP visits free or more affordable by increasing bulk billing incentives
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens plan to boost incentives to GPs with a $21.5 billion investment, which includes tripling bulk billing incentives to ensure everyone can see the GP for free and increasing rebates for longer appointments. They’d also like to establish 1,000 free healthcare clinics, allowing people to access a GP, dentist, registered nurse or psychologist with no out-of-pocket costs.
Increase funding to train, attract, and retain more healthcare professionals, especially in regional areas
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens have multiple policies in place to support the retention and training of healthcare professionals. They plan to: close the pay gap for trainee GPs with $900 million in grants to ensure fair pay and better opportunities for development. Ensure everyone has access to quality support from mental health practitioners by employing 1,000 additional peer workers. Invest $15 million to train all mental health practitioners in gender affirmation, anti-discrimination, and cultural responsiveness. Create 1,000 free healthcare clinics around the country – six in every federal electorate, with 150 healthcare professionals employed for every electorate.
Increase funding for dental and mental health
Expand subsidies to make more prescription medicines cheaper
Type: Website
Summary: Increase subsidies to make PBS medicines free for concession card holders, and $7.70 per script for non-concession card holders:
Increase investment in large-scale renewable energy and storage
Type: Website / Media Quote
Summary: Greens support a meaningful increase in investment and incentives, and have also ensured the Capacity Investment Scheme can’t be used for fossil fuels like gas.
Require multinational gas companies to prioritise domestic supply, without supporting the approval of new gas projects
Type: Media Quote
Summary: The Greens support a gas reservation scheme, with leader Adam Bandt noting that “The simple thing to do is not to open up more coal and gas lands. It’s to say we’re going to stop these big corporations ripping gas away from households and businesses and sending it overseas tax-free.”
Invest in nuclear power as a future energy source, while extending the life of coal power and increasing gas use in the interim
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens do not support nuclear power, and have worked to bar uranium from the Future Made In Australia scheme, ensuring the scheme’s tax credits don’t contribute toward nuclear power.
Improve access to government-held information about government policies and decisions
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens support a $5 million investment in funding for FOI backlogs, and the enforcement of compliance timelines with sanctions for non-compliance.
Protect the ABC and SBS’s independence and funding
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens plan to restore funding for the ABC and SBS, and implement reforms to ensure that funding is secured and maintained long term.
Require all lobbyists that meet with politicians to be publicly disclosed
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens plan to include in-house lobbyists in the Lobbying Code of Conduct and enforcing more substantial breach penalties. They also plan to increase transparency in lobbying by requiring Ministers to publish meeting diaries.
Make public transport more frequent and reliable
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens plan to implement a $40 billion Sustainable Cities Fund and 50c public transport fares nationwide.
Improve bike paths and footpaths to encourage active transport
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens support increasing incentives and improvements to active transport options through the $40 billion Sustainable Cities Fund.
Increase access and affordability of electric and low-emissions vehicles
Type: Website
Summary: The Greens supported the current fuel efficiency standards legislation, while for advocating for strengthening them.
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