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Pro Bono News releases promise tracker for the 2022 federal election

18 May 2022 at 4:48 pm
Danielle Kutchel

Using this tracker, Pro Bono News will continue to hold the incoming government to account on its promises to the sector.

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Using this tracker, Pro Bono News will continue to hold the incoming government to account on its promises to the sector.

Over the course of the election campaign we have tracked the promises made by the major parties that are most relevant to our sector, and added them to this table.

The announcements included here are in no particular order but do cover the issues you identified as being most relevant to you in our pre-election poll. Note – we have only included announcements made during the campaign, not promises made in the last federal budget.

Also note: the Greens have an extensive policy platform related to climate. Here, we have only included the major announcements however you can read the full plan on their website.

We will use this table to hold the incoming government to account and track its progress towards meeting its stated goals. Click on the image below to view the table in full.

Have we missed a promise? Or do you have any feedback on this table? Let us know – email news@probonoaustralia.com.au

Party	Minister	Promise	Area / Sector
Liberal	Michael Sukkar	Super Home Buyer Scheme	Housing/Homelessness
Liberal	Michael Sukkar	Expansion of the low-deposit Home Guarantee Scheme for first home buyers	Housing/Homelessness
Liberal	Michael Sukkar	$2 billion in low-cost financing to community housing providers for the construction of new social and affordable rental houses	Housing/Homelessness
Labor	Jason Clare	Help to Buy Scheme	Housing/Homelessness
Labor	Jason Clare	Creation of the Housing Australia Future Fund – $10 billion for 30,000 social and affordable houses in five years	Housing/Homelessness
Labor	Jason Clare	Investments from Housing Australia Future Fund: $200 million for remote Indigenous housing $100 million for crisis and transitional housing for women and children fleeing domestic and family violence and older women on low incomes who are at risk of homelessness $30 million for housing specialist services for veterans who are experiencing homelessness or are at-risk of homelessness	Housing/Homelessness
Greens	Mehreen Faruqi	Establishment of Federal Housing Trust to build one million public and community homes over 20 years	Housing/Homelessness
Greens	Mehreen Faruqi	$7 billion in capital grants for improvement of existing public housing	Housing/Homelessness
Greens	Mehreen Faruqi	Establish a national standard of renters' rights, plus boost and guarantee funding for tenants’ advocacy services by $30 million per year	Housing/Homelessness
Liberal	Unknown	$7.7 million to extend Indigenous Business Australia’s Indigenous Home Ownership Program	First Nations
Labor	Linda Burney	Implementation of full Uluru Statement	First Nations
Labor	Unknown	$13.5 million for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services, $1 million for NATSILS, and $3 million for the National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services Forum	First Nations
Labor	Unknown	Establishment of real time reporting at a national level of First Nations deaths in custody	First Nations
Labor	Unknown	$52.9 million for a First Nations Health Worker Traineeship Program	First Nations
Labor	Unknown	$13.5 million to help eradicate rheumatic heart disease	First Nations
Greens	Unknown	$250 million for a national Truth and Justice Commission	First Nations
Greens	Unknown	Legal protection for First Nations people's tangible and intangible heritage	First Nations
Greens	Unknown	$371 million to self-determined, community-led First Nations health services	First Nations
Greens	Unknown	$1.07 billion in funding to build First Nations owned healing places	First Nations
Greens	Unknown	Raising the legal age of responsibility to at least 14	First Nations
Greens	Unknown	Establishment of a First Nations legal defence fund	First Nations
Greens	Unknown	Implementation of the recommendations from the Australian Law Reform Commissions’ Pathway to Justice report, and the recommendations from the Royal Commission into the Detention and Protection of Children in the Northern Territory	First Nations
Greens	Unknown	Establishment of a Stolen Generations compensation scheme, providing each survivor with a $200,000 payment	First Nations
Liberal	Unknown	Increase to the Child Care Subsidy by 30 per cent for second and subsequent children in a family with children aged five or under in child care, up to a maximum rate of 95 per cent	Child care
Liberal	Unknown	Establish 27 new Connected Beginnings sites by 2025 for First Nations children	Child care
Liberal	Unknown	Fund another 20 child care services in remote and very remote settings through the Community Child Care Fund	Child care
Labor	Unknown	Increase the maximum Child Care Subsidy rate to 90 per cent for the first child in care, and increase subsidy rates for families with one child in care and less than $530,000 in household income. A higher Child Care Subsidy rate will apply for second and additional children	Child care
Greens	Unknown	$19 billion in funding over the next four years to make early childhood education and care free for everyone, plus support for First Nations community-controlled services	Child care
Liberal	Angus Taylor	Reduce emissions by 30-35 per cent by 2030	Climate crisis
Labor	Chris Bowen	Reduce emissions by 43 per cent by 2030, and reach net zero by 2050	Climate crisis
Labor	Chris Bowen	Design a National Electric Vehicle Strategy and provide discounts on electric cars	Climate crisis
Labor	Chris Bowen	Install 400 community batteries across Australia	Climate crisis
Greens	Sarah Hanson-Young	Immediately ban the construction of new coal, oil and gas infrastructure in Australia, and phase out the mining, burning and export of thermal coal by 2030	Climate crisis
Greens	Sarah Hanson-Young	Provide grants of up to $25,000 and loans up to $100,000 to help households and small businesses move from gas to electric	Climate crisis
Greens	Sarah Hanson-Young	Increasing funding for emergency services, the BOM and the CSIRO	Climate crisis
Greens	Sarah Hanson-Young	Banning political donations from the mining and resources sector and other industries identified as "dirty", and capping all other donations at $1,000 per year	Climate crisis
Greens	Sarah Hanson-Young	Ending the more than $10 billion in subsidies provided to coal, oil and gas corporations each year and reinvesting that money into the transition to clean energy	Climate crisis
Greens	Janet Rice	Raise the rate of all income support payments to $88 a day	Welfare
Labor	Andrew Leigh	Double philanthropic giving by 2030	Philanthropy
Liberal	Linda Reynolds	Fully fund the NDIS	NDIS/Disability
Liberal	Linda Reynolds	$2 million for a two-year pilot program for Australians with disability to develop their leadership and senior executive skills and prepare them for board membership	NDIS/Disability
Labor	Bill Shorten	Fix the NDIS – including conducting an expert review to make sure no plans are unfairly reduced, measuring the implementation of the National Disability Strategy, reviewing the design, operation and sustainability of the NDIS and codesigning solutions with people with disability themselves	NDIS/Disability
Greens	Jordon Steele-John	Invest $30 million over four years into disability advocacy organisations	NDIS/Disability
Greens	Jordon Steele-John	Fully fund, staff and resource the NDIS; provide $300 million for the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission; reinvest the $160 million committed to corporations during the failed independent assessments bid; and remove the age limit that prevents disabled people aged over 65 from accessing the NDIS	NDIS/Disability
Greens	Jordon Steele-John	Support for two proposals by Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN): $2 million over 2 years for QDN to continue to operate the Targeted Outreach project, and a commitment to the development of a national plan and roadmap for disability-inclusive disaster preparedness, resilience, and recovery, as well as investment for multi-sector targeted responses	NDIS/Disability
Liberal	Richard Colbeck	Commit to a five-year plan, worth $18.8 billion, to improve aged care including 40,000 home care packages, over 48,000 additional training places, 7,000 new personal care workers and 8,400 respite services	Aged care
Labor	Clare O'Neil	Ensure that every aged care facility has a registered nurse on site 24/7, mandate that every aged care resident gets an average of 215 minutes of care per day as per the recommendation made by the Aged Care Royal Commission, and work with the sector to improve the food served in aged care homes by developing and implementing mandatory nutrition standards	Aged care
Labor	Clare O'Neil	Support for workers’ calls for better pay at the Fair Work Commission	Aged care
Greens	Unknown	Implement a $6 billion package to improve aged care, including by increasing hours of care for each resident to 4 hours 18 minutes per day, introducing staff to patient ratios, increasing aged care workers’ wages by 25 per cent and phasing out for-profit providers	Aged care
Liberal	Unknown	Provide $2.5 billion over the first five years of the next National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children (set to begin in mid-2022)	Family violence
Liberal	Unknown	Working to close the gender pay gap	Family violence
Labor	Unknown	Establishing a Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Commissioner	Family violence
Labor	Unknown	Funding 500 community sector workers to support women in crisis situations	Family violence
Labor	Unknown	Legislating 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave	Family violence
Labor	Unknown	Creating a separate national plan to end violence against First Nations women and children	Family violence
Greens	Unknown	Providing $477 million for the national roll out of Our Watch’s Respectful Relationships program in all public schools	Family violence
Greens	Unknown	Providing $12 billion over 12 years to support the National Plan for Ending Violence Against Women and Children, and a standalone National Plan for First Nations Women	Family violence
Greens	Unknown	Providing 10 days paid domestic violence leave and $10,000 Survivor Grants for those fleeing abusive relationships	Family violence
Greens	Unknown	Adopting all recommendations in the Respect@Work and Set the Standard reports	Family violence
Greens	Unknown	Closing the gender pay gap	Family violence

Danielle Kutchel | @ProBonoNews

Danielle is a journalist specialising in disability and CALD issues, and social justice reporting.

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