@geeksrulz compares IPA 100 point list and Labor policies and achievements

IPA Conservative Manifesto Updated 2019

IPA Wishlist Updated 2019

• Sell the ABC
• Hold a Royal Commission into the Bureau of Meteorology
• Scrap the Fair Work Act
• Slash Company Tax to 20{17ac88c265afb328fa89088ab635a2a63864fdefdd7caa0964376053e8ea14b3}
• Introduce a flat income tax
• Double the MPs in the House of Representatives
• Pull out of the Paris Climate Change Agreement
• Scrap the 18c Racial Discrimination Act
• Abolish superannuation
• Allow nuclear reactors

IPA 100 point list 2013

1. Repeal the carbon tax, and don’t replace it. It will be one thing to remove the burden of the carbon tax from the Australian economy. But if it is just replaced by another costly scheme, most of the benefits will be undone.
2. Abolish the Department of Climate Change
3. Abolish the Clean Energy Fund
4. Repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

5. Abandon Australia’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council

6. Repeal the renewable energy target

7. Return income taxing powers to the states
8. Abolish the Commonwealth Grants Commission
9. Abolish the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
10. Withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol
11. Introduce fee competition to Australian universities
12. Repeal the National Curriculum
13. Introduce competing private secondary school curriculums
14. Abolish the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
15. Eliminate laws that require radio and television broadcasters to be ‘balanced’
16. Abolish television spectrum licensing and devolve spectrum management to the common law
17. End local content requirements for Australian television stations
18. Eliminate family tax benefits
19. Abandon the paid parental leave scheme
20. Means-test Medicare
21. End all corporate welfare and subsidies by closing the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
22. Introduce voluntary voting
23. End mandatory disclosures on political donations
24. End media blackout in final days of election campaigns
25. End public funding to political parties
26. Remove anti-dumping laws
27. Eliminate media ownership restrictions
28. Abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board
29. Eliminate the National Preventative Health Agency
30. Cease subsidising the car industry
31. Formalise a one-in, one-out approach to regulatory reduction
32. Rule out federal funding for 2018 Commonwealth Games
33. Deregulate the parallel importation of books
34. End preferences for Industry Super Funds in workplace relations laws
35. Legislate a cap on government spending and tax as a percentage of GDP
36. Legislate a balanced budget amendment which strictly limits the size of budget deficits and the period the federal government can be in deficit
37. Force government agencies to put all of their spending online in a searchable database
38. Repeal plain packaging for cigarettes and rule it out for all other products, including alcohol and fast food
39. Reintroduce voluntary student unionism at universities
40. Introduce a voucher scheme for secondary schools
41 Repeal the alcopops tax

42. Introduce a special economic zone in the north of Australia including:

a) Lower personal income tax for residents

b) Significantly expanded 457 Visa programs for workers

c) Encourage the construction of dams

(Editors note: Abbott said he would ‘develop Northern Australia, but gave no details)

43. Repeal the mining tax

44. Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states

(Editors note: Libs will create a one stop shop[ for environmental approvals)
45. Introduce a single rate of income tax with a generous tax-free threshold
46. Cut company tax to an internationally competitive rate of 25 per cent
47. Cease funding the Australia Network
48 Privatise Australia Post

49. Privatise Medibank

50. Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function

51. Privatise SBS

52. Reduce the size of the public service from current levels of more than 260,000 to at least the 2001 low of 212,784
53. Repeal the Fair Work Act
54. Allow individuals and employers to negotiate directly terms of employment that suit them
55. Encourage independent contracting by overturning new regulations designed to punish contractors
56. Abolish the Baby Bonus
57. Abolish the First Home Owners’ Grant
58. Allow the Northern Territory to become a state
59. Halve the size of the Coalition front bench from 32 to 16
60. Remove all remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade
61. Slash top public servant salaries to much lower international standards, like in the United States
62. End all public subsidies to sport and the arts
63. Privatise the Australian Institute of Sport
64. End all hidden protectionist measures, such as preferences for local manufacturers in government tendering
65. Abolish the Office for Film and Literature Classification
66. Rule out any government-supported or mandated internet censorship
67. Means test tertiary student loans
68. Allow people to opt out of superannuation in exchange for promising to forgo any government income support in retirement

69. Immediately halt construction of the National Broadband Network and privatise any sections that have already been built

70. End all government funded Nanny State advertising
71. Reject proposals for compulsory food and alcohol labelling
72. Privatise the CSIRO
73. Defund Harmony Day
74. Close the Office for Youth
75. Privatise the Snowy-Hydro Scheme

Updated

25 more ideas for Tony Abbott

76. Have State Premiers appoint High Court justices
77. Allow ministers to be appointed from outside parliament
78. Extend the GST to cover all goods and services but return all extra revenue to taxpayers through cutting other taxes
79. Abolish the federal department of health and return health policy to the states
80. Abolish the federal department of education and return education policy to the states
81. Repeal any new mandatory data retention laws
82. Abolish the Australian Human Rights Commission
83. Have trade unions regulated like public companies, with ASIC responsible for their oversight
84. End all public funding to unions and employer associations
85. Repeal laws which protect unions from competition, such as the ‘conveniently belong’ rules in the Fair Work Act
86. Extend unrestricted work visas currently granted to New Zealand citizens to citizens of the United States
87. Negotiate and sign free trade agreements with Australia’s largest trading partners, including China, India, Japan and South Korea
88. Restore fundamental legal rights to all existing commonwealth legislation such as the right to silence and the presumption of innocence
89. Adhere to section 51(xxxi) of the Constitution by not taking or diminishing anyone’s property without proper compensation
90. Repeal legislative restrictions on the use of nuclear power
91. Allow full competition on all foreign air routes
92. Abolish the Medicare levy surcharge
93. Abolish the luxury car tax
94. Halve the number of days parliament sits to reduce the amount of legislation passed
95. Abolish Tourism Australia and cease subsidising the tourism industry
96. Make all government payments to external parties publicly available including the terms and conditions of those payments
97. Abandon plans to restrict foreign investment in Australia’s agricultural industry
98. Cease the practice of setting up government-funded lobby groups, such as YouMeUnity, which uses taxpayer funds to campaign to change the Australian Constitution
99. Rule out the introduction of mandatory pre-commitment for electronic gaming machines
100. Abolish the four pillars policy which prevents Australia’s major banks from merging

ALP achievements/bills from 2007 to 2013

1. NBN (the real one) – total cost $37.4b (Government contribution: $30.4b)
2. BER 7,920 schools: 10,475 projects. (completed at less than 3{17ac88c265afb328fa89088ab635a2a63864fdefdd7caa0964376053e8ea14b3} dissatisfaction rate)
3. Gonski – Education funding reform
4. NDIS/DisabilityCare
5. MRRT & aligned PRRT
6. Won seat at the UN
7. Signed Kyoto
8. Signatory to Bali Process & Regional Framework
9. Eradicated WorkChoices
10. Established Fair Work Australia
11. Established Carbon Pricing/ETS (7{17ac88c265afb328fa89088ab635a2a63864fdefdd7caa0964376053e8ea14b3} reduction in emissions since July last year)
12. Established National Network of Reserves and Parks
13. Created world’s largest Marine Park Network
14. Introduced Reef Rescue Program
15. National Apology
16. Sorry to the Stolen Generation
17. Increased Superannuation from 9 to 12{17ac88c265afb328fa89088ab635a2a63864fdefdd7caa0964376053e8ea14b3}
18. Changed 85 laws to remove discrimination against same sex couples
19. Introduced National Plan to reduce violence against women and children
20. Improvements to Sex Discrimination Act
21. Introduced Plain packaging of cigarettes
22. Legislated Equal pay (social & community workers up to 45{17ac88c265afb328fa89088ab635a2a63864fdefdd7caa0964376053e8ea14b3} pay increases)
23. Legislated Australia’s first Paid Parental Leave scheme
24. Established $10b Renewable energy fund
25. Legislated Murray/Darling Basin plan (the first in a hundred years of trying.)
26. Increased Education funding by 50{17ac88c265afb328fa89088ab635a2a63864fdefdd7caa0964376053e8ea14b3}
27. Established direct electoral enrolment
28. Created 190,000 more University places
29. Achieved 1:1 ratio, computers for year 9-12 students
30. Established My School
31. Established National Curriculum
32. Established NAPLAN
33. Increased Health funding by 50{17ac88c265afb328fa89088ab635a2a63864fdefdd7caa0964376053e8ea14b3}
34. Legislated Aged care package
35. Legislated Mental health package
36. Legislated Dental Care package
37. Created 90 Headspace sites
38. Created Medicare Locals Program
39. Created Aussie Jobs package
40. Created Kick-Start Initiative (apprentices)
41. Funded New Car plan (industry support)
42. Created Infrastructure Australia
43. Established Nation Building Program (350 major projects)
44. Doubled Federal Roads budget ($36b) (7,000kms of roads)
45. Rebuilding 1/3 of interstate rail freight network
46. Committed more to urban passenger rail than any government since Federation
47. Developed National Ports Strategy
48. Developed National Land Freight Strategy
49. Created the nations first ever Aviation White Paper
50. Revitalized Australian Shipping
51. Reduced transport regulators from 23 to 3 (saving $30b over 20years)
52. Introduced NICS – infrastructure schedule
53. Australia has moved from 20th in 2007 to 2nd on OECD infrastructure ranking
54. Awarded International Infrastructure Minister of the Year (2012 Albanese)
55. Awarded International Treasurer of the Year (2011 Swan)
56. Introduced Anti-dumping and countervailing system reforms
57. Legislated Household Assistance Package
58. Introduced School Kids Bonus
59. Increased Childcare rebate (to 50{17ac88c265afb328fa89088ab635a2a63864fdefdd7caa0964376053e8ea14b3})
60. Allocated $6b to Social Housing (20,000 homes)
61. Provided $5b to Support for Homelessness
62. Established National Rental Affordability Scheme ($4.5b)
63. Introduced Closing the Gap
64. Supports Act of Recognition for constitutional change
65. Provided the highest pension increase in 100 years
66. Created 900,000 new jobs
67. Established National Jobs Board
68. Allocated $9b for skills and training over 5 years
69. Established Enterprise Connect (small business)
70. Appointed Australia’s first Small Business Commissioner
71. Introduced immediate write-off of assets costing less than $6,500 for Sm/Bus
72. Introduced $5,000 immediate write-off for Small Business vehicles over $6,500
73. Introduced Small business $1m loss carryback for tax rebate from previous year
74. Legislated Australian Consumer law
75. Introduced a national levy to assist Queensland with reconstruction
76. Standardized national definition of flood for Insurance purposes.
77. Created Tourism 2020
78. Completed Australia’s first feasibility study on high speed rail
79. Established ESCAS (traceability and accountability in live animal exports)
80. Established Royal Commission into Institutional Sexual Abuse
81. Established National Crime Prevention Fund
82. Lowered personal income taxes (Ave family now pays $3,500 less p.a. than 2007)
83. Raised the tax-free threshold from $6,000 to $18,200
84. Australia now the richest per capita nation on earth
85. First time ever Australia has three triple A credit ratings from all three credit agencies
86. Low inflation
87. Lowest interest rates in 60 years (Ave mortgagee paying $5,000 less p.a. than 2007)
88. Low unemployment
89. Lowest debt to GDP in OECD
90. Australian dollar is now fifth most traded in the world and IMF Reserve Currency
91. One of the world’s best performing economies during and since the GFC
92. Australia now highest ranked for low Sovereign Risk
93. Overseen the largest fiscal tightening in nations history (4.4{17ac88c265afb328fa89088ab635a2a63864fdefdd7caa0964376053e8ea14b3})
94. 21 years of continuous economic growth (trend running at around 3{17ac88c265afb328fa89088ab635a2a63864fdefdd7caa0964376053e8ea14b3}pa)
95. 11 years of continuous wages growth exceeding CPI
96. Increasing Productivity
97. Increasing Consumer Confidence
98. Record foreign investment
99. Historic levels of Chinese/Australian bilateral relations
100. Won International Court of Justice whaling case against Japan