Labour DLP Policies for the ACT Election

“Supporting Families to Build Communities”

 

Making Housing Affordable

Buying

• Increase land supply by drastically expanding and fast-tracking land development to meet all demand.
• providing half price land to first home buyers by creating a register of first home buyers who are guaranteed to be offered a block within 12 months at a fixed price of $500 per square metre.
• In order to increase the supply of blocks for houses, repeal ALP-Greens government mandate requiring most land be developed for units
• Create a not-for-profit Co-operative Finance Bank to lend for the establishment of housing co-operatives, including single homes with at least four shareholders

Renting

• Increase rental supply by encouraging build-to-rent houses and units
• Impose a 30% Foreign Buyers Stamp Duty on all properties bought by foreign nationals (as is currently done by China) and an annual 5% long-term vacant property tax to finance building more social housing for Australians in the ACT.

Rent to Buy Social Housing

• Allow public housing tenants to use their last tens years rent as a deposit to purchase their social housing

 

Cutting the Cost of Living

Affordable Energy

• government to build a gas power plant to reduce household energy costs and guarantee affordable, reliable supply for all ACT residents.
• Repeal ALP-Greens ban on connecting gas to new homes
• Introduce traditional power rebates of $500 a year to low-income families and retirees without rooftop solar to compensate them for having to pay higher electricity costs to subsidise wealthy Canberrans who have solar cells.

Taxes and Charges

• Reduce government charges imposed on new land development,
• Reduce ACT rates from the highest in the country to no more than the average of the other states.
• Pass legislation to prevent government fees, rates and charges rising higher than CPI.

Supporting Families

• Introduce a $35,000 per year means-test free Homemakers Allowance paid to stay-at-home mums to look after their own children, payable irrespective of their husband’s income
• Introduce Low Income Family Rent Assistance of $100 per week

 

 Improving Health Care

• Establish a Free State Dental Clinic to provide free basic dental care (scaling, fillings, extractions, false teeth) for low-income families and retirees
• Support the establishment of Private Hospital Accident & Emergency departments to end long Emergency waiting times
• Build a second major government hospital in north Canberra and return ownership of Calvary to the Catholic Church, giving Canberra three major hospitals to end waiting times for elective surgery.
• Cap the ratio of bureaucrats to doctors and nurses in public health to ensure that future health funding increases go to front-line services not just pen-pushers

 

Reducing Crime

• Following the example of the Country-Liberal Party government in the Northern Territory, reverse the ALP-Greens government’s raising of the age of criminal responsibility to 14 and bring it back down to 10 again.
• Build a Borstal Reform School to reform youth repeat offenders aged 10-17 (as occurred in the UK until 1982 and as currently occurs in India)
• Introduce mandatory jail terms for home invasion, car-jacking and all other serious violent crimes.
• Install security lighting at all bus stops and underpasses.
• Create a dedicated ACT Police service which actually bothers to patrol our streets to keep us safe.
• Introduce a zero-tolerance policy for graffiti, removing it within 30 days and forcing those responsible to clean it off.
• Repeal the ALP-Greens government’s permissive drug laws and punish illegal hard drug possession with compulsory detoxification. (Failure to comply to result in incarceration.)

 

Restoring Education

• End the politicization of public education by banning the teaching of radical race and gender material and climate change alarmism in public schools
• End all “welcome to country” ceremonies which presume that the country doesn’t belong to all of us, divide the community based on race and devalue the citizenship of migrants.
• replace WTC in schools with singing our Australian national anthem every morning to promote national unity
• Introduce education vouchers to give all kids equal public education funding and also make these payable to the parents of home-schooled kids

 

Improving Recreation

• Revamp existing stadium at Bruce and not build a traffic-jam generating new stadium in Civic
• Stop government reducing our public parks by using them as cheap government building sites
• Stop wasting millions on eyesore Labor-luvvy junk sculptures and replace them with worthwhile public art by actual artists, beginning with a bronze statue of penicillin-discoverer Sir Howard Florey at the Florey shops.
• Support freedom of choice by re-legalizing smoking in designated outdoor areas of pubs, clubs, hospitals etc.
• Abolish compulsory bicycle/scooter helmets for adults
• Bring back fireworks to celebrate the King’s birthday!

 

Our Candidates for the ACT Election

Kurrajong

Yerrabi

Ginninderra

   

 

 

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