Malcolm Turnbull and Simon Birmingham with preschool children at a childcare centre.
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Here’s how the government’s new childcare plan will change the way families are given assistance with paying for child care.
Malcolm Turnbull and his colleagues have pointed $1 billion of the government’s existing green energy funding towards the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Coalition has ramped up the race to fund the Great Barrier Reef’s protection. All three major parties have promised hundreds of millions of dollars, but where from, and what will they be spent on?
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten with daughter Clementine.
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Labor has unveiled a $3 billion child care policy it will take to the polls on July 2. What has the party proposed and how is it different?
The proposed fund would invest in new approaches to reducing harms and deaths associated with alcohol and other drug use.
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PolicyCheck unpacks the details and history of the Greens’ proposed $10 million Harm Reduction Innovation Fund drug policy.
There have been number of short-lived Commonwealth funding programs for dental care in the past.
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PolicyCheck unpacks the detail and history of the Coalition’s proposed dental health care policy.
Negative gearing has been untouched for 30 years because it increases housing supply and the stock of rental properties.
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Negative gearing reform is complex and fraught, with a chequered recent history. The key to any future reform will be finding a way to equitably change it without losing its benefit.
Labor has released a six point climate plan, which features a proposed phased emissions trading scheme.
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Labor has said it would introduce an emissions trading scheme for large emitters. PolicyCheck unpacks the detail and provenance of this proposed plan.