Federal Budget – Delivering for the Hawkesbury
Funding for a new Hawkesbury Medicare Urgent Care Clinic and extra cost of living relief for every household was confirmed in the latest federal budget.
This continues our efforts to tackle cost of living pressures while at the same time investing in vital health services and ensuring that your Medicare card is the key to getting healthcare.
As well as the funding for our own Medicare Urgent Care Clinic – open extended hours, every day, for urgent but not lifethreatening things – we’re funding more bulk billing to help you see a GP for free, and even cheaper medicines.
Under Labor, the maximum co-payment for PBS scripts will be lowered from $31.60 to $25 – that’s back to 2004 prices. It will save my communities $1.2 million a year.
The Budget also tops up the tax cuts that began last July, reaching a combined average benefit of $2589 per taxpayer in 2027-28. This is a permanent change to the tax system, not a one off.
And we extend energy bill relief with an additional $150 for every household and small business, adding to the $300 energy rebate that households, and $325 energy rebate that small businesses received over the past year.
We’re making it easier for Australians to buy a home with foreign buyers banned from this month from purchasing existing homes, for two years, plus an expansion of our Help to Buy scheme, while also training more construction workers.
There will be 100,000 free TAFE places each year and a 20 percent cut to student debt.
We know Australians have worked hard and made sacrifices, and my government is focused on delivering for households.
We’re building on the strong foundations we have laid with lower inflation, rising wages and low unemployment helping to secure our nation’s future at a time of global uncertainty. Now is the time to keep building.
