July 2021

MANIFESTO

LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA

THE LIBERAL LEADERSHIP TEAM

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Russian Hacker

Leader of the Liberals

Senator for South Australia

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Riley8583, AC.

Co-Leader of the Liberals

Party President

MP for Moncrieff

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12MaxWild

Deputy Leader of the Liberals

MP for Brisbane

PROMISE 1: TAX CUTS

STAGE 1

STAGE 2

STAGE 3

TAX CUTS FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS

Promise 2

Abolish the Alcohol Excise to support Australia’s Alcohol Industry through boosted domestic consumption

Promise 3

Abolish the Major Bank Levy

inject $1.7 billion per year back into the economy and recover 6,200 jobs.

Promise 4

Reverse the Budget Repair Levy

The Highest Marginal Income Tax Rate should be nowhere near 51.5% if Australia is to be internationally competitive!

Promise 5

Block Capital Gains Discount Changes as proposed by ‘The Bloc.’

Over 60% of individuals who claim a capital gain have an income of less than $60,000, let’s help the working class secure their nest egg - not tax it away

Promise 7

Reduce the Fuel Excise Tax by 2%

Save Australians $750 a year in fuel.

Promise 6

Slash Company Tax to 25%

Increase Investment by 2.9%

Increase Income by 15%

Increase Employment by 0.1%

Increase GDP by 1.1%

Increase Exports by 2.1%

Promise 9

Abolish the Carbon Tax

Protect 23,000 job losses in Victoria, 21,000 job losses in Queensland, and 31,000 in NSW.

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Reduce the Tax rate for small and medium businesses

RESPONSIBLE FISCAL MANAGEMENT

Promise 10: Abolish Tax Concessions and Deductions for Foreign Owned Petrol and Gas Companies

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Promise 11: Impose Zonal Taxation

Promise 12: Impose a Debt Ceiling

Promise 13: Trial a cashless welfare card scheme

PROTECTING AUSTRALIAN'S FROM CRIME

Promise 14

Focus on rehabilitation for the criminals that can be rehabilitated

Promise 15

Bring the age of criminal responsibility down to 12

Promise 16

Introduce stricter penalties for rapists and paedophiles

Promise 17

Introduce a national sex offender registry

Promise 18

Trial street curfews for minors in certain parts of Australia that are facing youth crime waves

Promise 19

Increase trade with India, UK, Japan and South Korea

Promise 20

Keep Australian troops at home unless attacked

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Promise 21

Establish Financial Assistance for Victims of International Terrorism

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE

Promise 22

Get the Port of Darwin back

Promise 23

Review Australia’s recognition of Taiwan

Promise 24

Tackle the trade deficit

Promise 25

Help resettle Afghani interpreters that assisted the Australian Defence Forces during the war in Afghanistan

Promise 26

Promote Fair Trade before Free Trade

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Promise 27

End the selling off of Australian land and assets to foreign nations and companies

Promise 29

Ban mineral and food exports to China

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Ensure all meat products are assessed before being imported to Australia

Promise 31

Veto the Belt and Road initiative

Promise 30

Make steps toward CANZUK

Promise 32: Reduce post-COVID immigration to sustainable levels

The Liberals will hold an inquiry into what cap is needed.

Promise 33: Make the citizenship process more efficient

Promise 34: Secure Australia’s Borders

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Promise 35: Uphold the points based system

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IMMIGRATION AND BORDER PROTECTION

DEFENCE

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Promise 36:

Build 3 Naval Vessels in Henderson, WA

Two Mine Warfare Support and a Hydrographic Vessel

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Promise 37:

Re-vamp Australia’s naval capacity

Build Guardian Class Pacific patrol boats and Arafura Offshore patrol boats here in Australia

Promise 38:

GET TO THE CHOPPER!

Invest $750 million into the retention of Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter to 2030

Promise 39:

Boosting Cybersecurity

Invest $5 million into a Cybersecurity campaign run by the Australian Signals Directorate, with additional investments made into Australian Government Cybersecurity organisations

Promise 40:

Establish the Security Industry Authority (SIA)

The objectives of the SIA will be to issue and enforce national security licenses and integrate private security resources into the Australian Government’s Counterterrorism Strategy.

Promise 41: Build 100 Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicles in QLD

Promise 42: Become a permanent member of the Malabar Exercises

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Promise 43: Reintroduce public school army cadet units, with one unit in close proximity to several schools

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Promise 44: Introduce army cadet units at juvenile detention centres to encourage discipline and humility

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Promise 45: Expand the navy to be equal in tonnage to China's (or at least compete with it)

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Promise 46: Upgrade and expand our submarine fleet

Promise 47: Provide Health Services to Veterans and their children where they've been affected by Agent Orange, Nuclear Testing, or suffer issues such as Cancer.

Promise 48: Develop, alongside the Returned Services League, a sustainable Healthcare package for Veterans.

Promise 49: Expand access to the DVA Gold Health Treatment Card for SEATO surgical and medical teams who served in Vietnam

Promise 50: Digitalise all 2nd World War service records

Promise 51: Introduce a Veteran’s Employment Program

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Promise 52: Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide

VETERAN AFFAIRS

HEALTH, CHILD AND AGED CARE

Promise 53: Reduce the Medicare Levy threshold for senior Australians and promote comparison shopping

Promise 54: Phase down Lifetime Health Cover and the Medicare Levy Surcharge

Promise 55: Include Dental Care within Medicare Coverage

Promise 56: Increase Access to Psychologists under Medicare

Promise 58: Trial a Singapore style Healthcare system in capital cities

Promise 59: Reduce childcare costs for parents, guardians, and caregivers

Promise 57: Boost funding for Aged Care

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• Deregulate premiums for people aged below 55
• Charge everyone aged 55 and over the same premium
• Scrap the rebate on general insurance (‘extras’) and ‘junk’ policies
• Re-direct the hospital insurance rebate towards older people.
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The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care should determine what diagnosis-procedure combinations are low value, and private health insurers should not have to pay for this low-value care.

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The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care should determine what diagnosis-procedure combinations are better performed in high-volume settings, and private health insurers should not have to pay for this care in low-volume settings.

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The Independent Hospital Pricing Authority should determine what hospital-substitute programs are effective, and private health insurers should be required to pay for these programs.

PROMISE 60: BOOST PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE

HEALTH INDUSTRY

Promise 61: Mandate Epipens and AEDs in every building

Promise 62: Hold a Parliamentary Inquiry into the Functionality of AEDs

Promise 63: Purchase more doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccine

Promise 64: Mandate CPR Training as part of the National Curriculum

Promise 65: Resupply the National Stockpile with Masks, PPE and COVID-19 Vaccines

Promise 66: Promote Comparison Shopping by Requiring Health, Disability and Aged Care Providers to Publish Price Lists

Promise 67: Boost Collaboration and Encourage Stronger Links between Medical Universities and Industry

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Promise 68: Inquiry into the effectiveness of other Covid-19 treatments

WATER SECURITY

Promise 69: Subsidise Rainwater Tanks for Rural Australia

Promise 70: Build More Dams throughout Rural Australia

Promise 71: Scrap the Murray-Darling Basin authority and replace it with a more efficient and effective body

Promise 72: Return Control of Water to the People Relink Water Rights to Land

Promise 73: Build Inland Irrigation Schemes

• Build water turbines into the inland irrigation channels for the production of hydroelectricity
• Build inland irrigation schemes in far North Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia to harvest and channel water into our inland river systems such as the Ord and Murray-Darling,
• Commit to building the Bradfield Scheme, along with other dams and pipelines which will secure Australia's water

Promise 74: Oppose CSG and Mining on Prime Agricultural Land Where Water Supply is Impacted

Promise 75: Support over 100 Rehydration Projects by Funding the Mulloon Institute

BACKING THE REGIONS

Promise 76: The Liberals will restore private property rights and remove restrictions to rural landowners to the full utility of their land

At no cost to the rural landowner, we will also restore all farmland to rural landowners who have been compelled to sell or abandon their farms because they were made economically non-viable through unconstitutional laws

Promise 77: Support farmers to buy their first farm and plan for intergenerational transfer

Establish ‘AgriStarter’ concessional loans through the Regional Investment Corporation

Promise 78: Bring Back the Enhancing Exports Initiative at a cost of $225 Million.

• $100 million for maintaining and improving export relations with the United States, South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Mexico and Singapore as well as increasing market access
• $100 million for improving biosecurity enforcement (dealing with pests and disease), improving quality control on imports to meet Australian standards and research and trialling innovative technologies to improve the effectiveness of clearing freight and passengers
• $10 million investment into the Indonesia-Australia Red Meat and Cattle Partnership to improve long term trade whilst boosting our investment.
• $10 million investment into improving Commonwealth biosecurity in our international air and sea ports.
• $5 million for assistance to small Australian exporters seeking to enter international trade markets

Promise 79: Promote Regenerative Agriculture

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Promise 80: Ban protesters from protesting on private farmland

Promise 81: Prevent the sell off of agricultural land to Chinese investors

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Promise 82: Upgrade telecommunication infrastructure throughout regional and rural Australia

Promise 83: Introduce a Rebuild Regional Australia initiative which seeks to create jobs, build new infrastructure, create regional health hubs, and form new regional educational institutions such as schools, universities, and tafes

Promise 84: Reduce electricity prices in regional and rural Australia

SUPERANNUATION REFORMS

Promise 85: Keep Compulsory Super Contributions low

Promise 86: Increase tax on super earnings in pension phase to 15 per cent, and limit contributions further

Promise 87: Allow super access for the use of home loan deposits

Promise 88: Abolish the age limit for superannuation

Promise 89: Mandate Superannuation to be invested only in Australia

It should be up to you how much you put in your super. The Libs will give you freedom of choice.

This will ensure the ability of future pensioners to have peace of mind when planning their futures.

What’s a super worth when you don’t have a home? The Libs will help you every step of the way.

If you can and want to contribute, you should be able to. The Libs support abolishing the age limit.

Superannuation should be used to boost our economy, not the ones of our adversaries.

Promise 90: Legislate that trade unions will be subject to the same laws and regulations as corporations, and remove ‘unfair dismissal’ restrictions (while retaining sexual harassment rules), and remove rules preventing dismissal of employees for failing to carry out their duties.

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Promise 91: Legislate that trade union leaders will be subject to the same laws and regulations as company directors / board members

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Promise 92: We will bring back the ABCC�

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Promise 93: Remove industrial relations provisions restricting how employers carry out their business, including requirements for union entry into premises.

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS REFORM

Promise 94: Create A Regional Jobs and Investment Fund that caters towards Agricultural and Mining Jobs

Promise 95: Bring Back the WorkChoices Apprenticeship Scheme

Promise 96: Establish a Buy Australian, Hire Australian product code

Promise 99: Establish 10 industry training hubs to address the challenge of high youth unemployment in regional areas

Promise 97: Allow Penalty rate exemptions for small businesses

Promise 101: Establish Free-Trade zones around logistical trade hubs

Promise 98: Finalise a National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy with all tiers of government.

Promise 100: Implement Compulsory Work for the Dole

CREATE JOBS

Promise 103: Prevent abuse via unfair penalty fees

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Promise 104: Provide that the conversion and write-off provisions do not extend to the bail-in of deposit accounts

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Promise 105: Impose certain obligations and requirements on authorised deposit-taking institutions in relation to loans of up to $5 million to small primary production businesses.

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IMPLEMENT BANKING REFORMS

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REGULATION

Promise 106: Streamline Industry Regulations by Adopting a 1 In 2 Out Approach

Promise 108: Repeal Online Gambling Restrictions

Promise 109: Prevent the Counterfeiting of Postage Stamps through Holograms

Promise 107: Remove the Ban on Alcohol Advertising

ARTS AND SPORT

Promise 110: Establish a Regional Events Fund

Promise 111: Support a High-Performance Netball Centre in Melbourne

Promise 112: Establish a Home for the Matildas

Promise 113: Redevelop Ikon Park to become the home of AFL in Victoria

Promise 114: Revamp the William Cooper Centre in Melbourne as a new educational hub for young indigenous sports students

Promise 115: Establish Victoria Sport, a new research, development and performance hub focused on sports medicine, treatment and rehabilitation in Melbourne

Promise 116: Grants for the Music and Arts sector, to help keep the sector afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic

SOCIAL POLICY

Promise 115: Increase funding into medical areas that mainly effect the female sex, such as endometriosis, cervical cancer

Promise 116: Work with the Victorian State government to expand Orange Door services nationwide to help support rural and regional victims of domestic violence.

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Promise 117: Remove the government out of marriage completely, establishing ‘civil unions’ to retain legal rights

Promise 118: Legalise Vaping

Promise 124: Assist Indigenous Australians in providing for themselves and helping them get on a playing field with the rest of Australia.

INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA

Promise 119: Establish laws that prevent institutional racism to ensure no individual is either advantaged or disadvantaged based on their race

Promise 120: Ensure financial and other benefits are to be paid only according to need

Promise 121: Combat crime in Indigenous communities with rehabilitative programs

Promise 122: Lift Indigenous communities out of poverty through the creation of jobs

Promise 123: Ensure that education within Indigenous communities meets national standards

HOME OWNERSHIP

Promise 125: Cap all new residential developments sold to foreigners at 50%

Promise 126: Government Deposits of $7500 for First Home Buyers

Promise 127: Allow 25% of interest on Home Loans to be Tax Deductible

Promise 128: Alleviate the strain on the housing sector, with a house price reduction initiative, so that first home buyers can buy in.

Promise 129: Reduce the out of pocket cost for a home loan deposit

WELFARE

Promise 130: Remove the Means Test for Pensions

Promise 131: Increase Commonwealth Rent Assistance by 40% during the COVID crisis

Promise 132: Establish and Australian Space Agency with an objective of landing on both The Moon and Mars

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Promise 133: Establish the $100m Industry 4.0 skills fund

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Promise 134: Remodels ESIC to match and better the generous tax relief provided by the UK’s Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS).

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Promise 135: Develop a voluntary accord with superannuation funds where accord signatories commit to allocating up to 0.5% of their funds under management to high growth tech startups as a higher risk asset class

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Promise 136: Introduces an early stage tech investment initiative within superannuation where individual Australian citizens can allocate up to an additional 2% above the employer compulsory superannuation guarantee

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Promise 137: The Australian Government commits both tuition and living stipends to develop 1,000 Artificial Intelligence PhDs.

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Promise 138: Introduction of the Computer Science Centre of Excellence Visa: A fast-tracked visa allocation of 2,000 set aside for computer science graduates from the top 25 globally ranked computer science universities

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Promise 139: Introduce a tech entrepreneur stream of the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS);

INNOVATION AND CYBERSECURITY

Promise 140: Commit to a target of 50% emission reductions by 2045 with a market based approach

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Promise 141: Implement a nationwide Container Collection and Deposit Scheme

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Promise 142: Invest in the Green Australia Scheme

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Promise 143: Introduce a Climate Solutions package with the

following aims;

• Supporting Australians with Savannah
• Management, Energy Efficiency, and the
• capture and storage of Carbon and
• Methane.
• Increase Reliability of Renewable Energy.
• Protect the Great Barrier Reef by investing in it
• and partnering with the Great Barrier Reef
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Promise 144: Exterminate poisonous species of fish, such as carp, in our waterways with controlled herpes.

ENVIRONMENT

Promise 145: Energy Overhaul

• Allow LandLords to claim tax offsets of up to $2000 for energy efficiency improvements on investment property
• RESTORE AUSTRALIA’S 90 DAY FUEL SECURITY POLICY
• SCRAP THE CARBON TAX
• REGULATE WIND FARMS TO PREVENT NOISE POLLUTION
• DIVERSIFY AUSTRALIA’S ENERGY PRODUCTION AND MANIPULATE OUR RESOURCES FOR THE BEST BENEFITS
• Deregulate the power industry
• Cease all grants and subsidies to all new power projects not built by Federal or State Government
• Ensure all government energy supply is diverse and includes coal, wind, solar, hydro and nuclear among others
• invest in Australia’s oil extraction and petroleum refining capacity in Bass Strait and the Northwest Shelf to ensure we have enough independent supply regardless of the region’s geopolitical situation
• Allow more private competition in the energy market
• Repeal the Coal-Fired Funding Prohibition Bill 2020
• Build Nuclear Power Plants

ENERGY AND EMISSIONS REDUCTION

Promise 146: Building our Transport Network

1. Improve public transport in heavily populated outer suburbs of the capital cities, including Fairfield, Penrith, and Richmond in Sydney, Frankston, Pakenham, and Berwick in Melbourne, and Burpengary, Redcliffe, Gold Coast, and Beenleigh in Brisbane.
2. Introducing congestion charges of $5 from 8am to 9.30am, and from 4pm to 6pm in our CBDs
3. Relax restrictive zoning regulation
4. Plan for an east coast fast train network to connect CBDs
5. Build the second M1
6. Expand the lanes on the Southern Gold Coast from 2 to 4
7. Revive the Car Industry
8. Nationwide High speed rail

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TRANSPORT

• Reform HEC’s to have fees start being paid back at $45,000 salary
• Introduce Workforce Planning and improve career guidance in schools.
• Revert to the basics in primary education , with Reading, Writing, and Mathematics at the core.
• Abolish any and all promotion of Political Correctness, Identity Politics, Gender/Sexual Fluidity in all Educational Institutions.

The Liberals will push for the implementation of a scholarship worth up to $10,000 in value to students graduating with an Australian Tertiary Admittance Rank of 80 or higher:

• Recipients of the Teaching Excellence Scholarship will be legally obligated to work in government schools for a set period of time
• The Liberals will introduce an advertising campaign worth $20m to mitigate financial and social concerns over a career in teaching
• Implementation of structural reform to teaching roles in primary and secondary education, where teachers can be classified as an Instructional Specialist or a Master Teacher.

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1. Abolish Safe Schools and other progressive education programs
2. National Agricultural Schooling Program
3. The service of conducting religious education in NSW government schools is not funded by the government, therefore SRE Teachers are volunteers who teach on a particular faith once a week, every two weeks or on occasion depending on the school."
4. opt in chromebooks for all secondary students
5. Air Condition all classrooms
6. Milky kids program
7. Increased funding for the Clontarf Foundation
8. Make Civics and Commerce mandatory subjects for years 7 and 8
9. Review of the National Curriculum

EDUCATION

Promise 147: Reforming our Schools and Curriculum

Quality Coursework

• We must restore and promote the foundations of Western civilisation, law, art, music, literature, science and morality, in primary and secondary school curriculums.
• We must prioritise the studies of math, English, history, geography and the sciences.
• Ensure our education is free from bias, ideological influence, racial division, denigration, identity politics, political correctness or any other ideological fad.

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National School Health Plan

• We will implement a national school health curriculum to engage all schoolchildren in physical activity and nutrition.

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Education Funding

• Commit to directly funding every family with a $2500 voucher per child to determine their school of attendance

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Boosting our Schools

• Invest nationally to improve how we measure non-cognitive and critical thinking skills.
• Develop new national measures of learning progress for diagnostic use in the classroom, and for national benchmarking in collaboration with state and territory curriculum and assessment authorities.
• Invest in high-quality digital tools to help teachers regularly assess classroom learning alongside a new ‘star rating’ system to help schools when searching for the most appropriate assessment tools.
• Establish a new national independent evidence body to help identify national priorities, set rigorous standards of evidence, fund high-quality research and disseminate and promote findings

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1. We will commit to funding the Bradfield Water Scheme
2. Invest infrastructure projects such as a national fast rail service, dams and water projects, hospitals and upgrade major roads
3. Project Iron Boomerang
4. including the Cross River Rail project in Brisbane, the Western Metro in Sydney, connecting the Western Sydney Airport to the rail network from the day it opens, expanding Perth’s METRONET, and extending the Number 11 Tram line in Melbourne.
5. Build better roads and safer highways – including safety upgrades to the Bass and Murchison highways in Tasmania, extending the Bruce Highway to Cairns Airport, funding the Mackay and Rockhampton Ring Road projects, and delivering the Romeo Road to Mitchell Freeway extension in Perth.
6. Upgrade regional bridges – including the Bridgewater Bridge in Tasmania, building a wider bridge over the Shoalhaven River in Nowra, and deliver up to 300 wider, stronger bridges in regional Queensland.
7. Invest in dams and water infrastructure – including the Northern Adelaide Irrigation Scheme, building the Rookwood Weir Dam, upgrading the Burdekin Dam and delivering water security for Townsville.
8. Deliver a freight and logistics network fit for purpose – with upgrades for up to 3,000 kilometres of Queensland’s inland road network to make it easier for agricultural producers to get their products to market, widen and deepen Townsville Port and build a dedicated heavy vehicle access road to the Port of Gladstone.
9. Finance new tourism infrastructure – with a billion dollar fund to invest in tourism projects across northern Australia, in Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
10. The Battery of the Nation and Marinus Link projects by providing $56 million for the Marinus Link interconnector – a second electricity transmission connection between Tasmania and Victoria.
11. Increase funding for the Regional Rail Revival plan in Victoria, a program which is creating jobs and upgrading every regional line in the state
12. Construct new deep-water ports on the eastern seaboard including at Port Clinton, Queensland and fast track the completion of the Inland Rail Project
13. High speed rail Northern Beaches Sydney train line
14. Building dams and water infrastructure
15. Research and investment into the New Bradfield Scheme
16. Four laning the Bruce Highway
17. Light and Heavy Rail funding from Varsity Lakes/Burleigh Heads to Coolangatta Airport
18. Funding Upgrades to the M1 from Varsity Lakes to the QLD/NSW border
19. https://www.infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-08/current_priority_list_august_2020_0.pdf
20. Build two new cities by the end of this year: one in Queensland and the second continuing from plans in South Australia

PROMISE 148: BUILDING AUSTRALIA FOR THE FUTURE

Promise 149: ALLOW PARLIAMENTARIANS TO OPT OUT OF PARLIAMENTARY PAY

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Promise 150: MAKE SURE ALL AUSTRALIAN FLAGS ARE MADE IN AUSTRALIA

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Promise 151: END BENEFITS FOR FEDERAL POLLIES

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Promise 152: NEW CABINET POSITION: MINISTER FOR GOVERNMENT INTEGRITY

INTEGRITY

BUILDING OUR ECONOMY.�SECURING YOUR FUTURE.

Authorised by Riley8583, Liberal Party of Australia