Claire Ferres Miles
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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: Miles supports an introduction of a superprofits tax on large corporations and multinationals closing the loopholes that allow these organisations to avoid paying their fair share in tax.
Introduce short-term price caps (e.g. on rent and gas prices)
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being unsupportive of short-term price caps in key sectors.
Support a significant reduction of individuals employed by the public service
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being unsupportive of cutting public service jobs.
Prevent big companies from controlling the market and limiting consumer choice (e.g. supermarkets)
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports reforming regulations, as she believes the cost-of-living crisis is being caused by greedy corporations gouging customers.
Phase out tax concessions for property investors (e.g. negative gearing or capital gains tax discount)
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports limiting or reducing tax concessions for property investors.
Incentivise state/territory government to increase renter rights and protections
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “incentives to strengthen renter’s rights and protections”.
Increase investment in public and community housing
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “a meaningful increase in public and community housing”.
Allow first home-buyers to access their super to help purchase their first home
Type: Website
Summary: Miles does not support allowing first-home buyers to use their super to purchase their first home, believing that the “policy bakes in intergenerational disadvantage particularly for young people, asking them to borrow their own money at the financial expense of their retirement. It is short sighted and equates to economic theft of your future.”
Incentivise state/territory governments to increase housing supply
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “an expansion of incentives to increase housing supply.”
Help first-home buyers with shared equity programs that would allow participants to co-purchase a home with the government
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “an expansion of Federal Government Shared Equity programs to support people to purchase their first home. I also support innovative housing models like Build-to-Rent, co-housing, and community housing projects.”
Introduce energy bill rebates
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “an energy bill rebate for households and businesses in FY2025/26 targeted to households and businesses that need it most.”
Increase financial support for energy efficiency upgrades
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “a meaningful increase of financial incentives for home and business electrification, solar, battery storage, and energy efficiency upgrades.”
Increase funding for community batteries that increase access to solar
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “a meaningful increase of financial incentives for community batteries, micro grids and virtual power plants so renters, low-income families and families that have too many tree canopy cover over their roof can access renewable energy.”
Strengthen regulations to prevent price-gouging by energy companies
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “any solution that makes our power bills cheaper, makes energy companies pay their fair share and achieves a resilient power supply: I support regulatory reform to clamp down on price-gouging by energy companies.”
Make university free
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being unsupportive of wiping student debt and making university free.
Cut a portion of existing student debt
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being supportive of cutting at least 15% of student debt.
Support more fee-free TAFE places
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being supportive of the Free TAFE bill or comparable legislation.
Increase funding for public schools
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being supportive of increasing the federal share of public school funding to between 22.5-25%.
Increase funding for and access to childcare subsidies
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being supportive increasing funding for and access to childcare subsidies.
Stop fossil fuel project approvals and expansions
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “a strengthening of national environment protection laws and wants to stop coal and goals fossil fuel project approvals and proposed project expansions.”
Accelerate the rollout of renewable energy projects
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being supportive of a target of 80–94% renewable energy by 2030, with clear policies to achieve this.
Strengthen policies that ensure Australia’s biggest polluters genuinely cut their emissions
Type: Website
Summary: Miles believes that climate policy is economic policy, and that the solutions should be accelerated to delivery jobs and prosperity for her electorate.
Increase investment in preventative health programs
Type: Website
Summary: Miles “supports a meaningful increase in funding for health prevention programs”.
Make GP visits free or more affordable by increasing bulk billing incentives
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “a meaningful increase in funding to increase access to bulk-billing, making GP visits more affordable”.
Increase funding to train, attract, and retain more healthcare professionals, especially in regional areas
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports a meaningful increase in funding to train, attract and retain more healthcare professionals in rural communities like Casey”.
Increase funding for dental and mental health
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “a strengthened and expanded Medicare to include dental and mental health”.
Expand subsidies to make more prescription medicines cheaper
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “expanded subsidies through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) to make more prescription medicines cheaper”.
Increase investment in large-scale renewable energy and storage
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports “bringing online cheaper power”.
Require multinational gas companies to prioritise domestic supply, without supporting the approval of new gas projects
Type: Website
Summary: Miles supports requiring multinational gas companies to prioritise domestic supply through a reserve mechanism/scheme that does not enable new gas projects.
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: Miles is open to any proposal that will drive down energy costs, but in consulting her community, has deduced that people in Casey would rather have solar panels on their roof than a nuclear power plant in the valley.
Improve access to government-held information about government policies and decisions
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being supportive of increasing funding and introduction of statutory timeframes for review, to restore trust in federal government.
Protect the ABC and SBS’s independence and funding
Type: Website
Summary: Miles is committed to maintaining ABC and SBS funding in real terms and implementing reforms to enable planning certainty across funding cycles.
Require all lobbyists that meet with politicians to be publicly disclosed
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being supportive of increasing funding and introduction of statutory timeframes for review, to restore trust in federal government.
Make public transport more frequent and reliable
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being supportive of increasing incentives to improve the frequency, reliability, and accessibility of shared transport.
Improve bike paths and footpaths to encourage active transport
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being supportive of increasing incentives to improve bike paths and footpaths to encourage active transport.
Increase access and affordability of electric and low-emissions vehicles
Type: Statement
Summary: Miles responded to our survey as being supportive of implementing policies that strengthen the effectiveness of the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard.
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