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Dental and mental health in medicare.
People suffering from health conditions are not being "economically productive", so by your own goals, the government should be helping ensure people can be at maximum health. And last I checked, my teeth and brain were part of me.
Fabricate and nurture a Green economy.
Local manufacturing of Solar/Wind/ Inverters/ Batteries.
Local Recycling of Batteries / Plastics /Tyres.
Local energy/ fertiliser generation by Biochar.
Australia, the country that regularly sets itself on fire becoming the king of biochar is insanely hilarious and perfect
Pipe dream:
Tax income generated from accumulated wealth the same as income generated from actual work. I.e. a rate somewhere in between the two. No more CGT discounts.
End negative gearing for existing structures.
No more tax breaks for commercial vehicles
Curtail corporations from off shoring profits to tax havens.
Tax on exported gas
UBI
Hey albo, remember the social system you grew up under?
Do that.
I've got some more:
Wind back private health insurance. It leaches money from the population while providing worse health outcomes. The finance side has lobbyists to encourage the government to lean toward private health and away from public services. Private health at the very top, is just money and bankers, so when the global finance system shifts ever so slightly one way or another, entire branches of our health care services come under fire.
Microtransit. Lean on states to regulate eBikes and eScooters with some reasonable legislation. Improve micortransit freeways around the cities and frankly through the country as well.
Fast trains for transit and freight.
Remove mutual obligations from centrelink payments effectively making it a soft UBI. If people want to work they will or at least will try to. If they don't want to work they wont. It's a waste of money to try to punish people who don't want to work.
Buy back our god dam services. Telco, utilities, government departments (eg, vicroads), public transport.
Manufacturing. How much fucking raw ore do we ship overseas? At least process that here into iron, steel, etc.
That Norway citizens fund thing that Whitlam got shafted over, do that.
Build commie blocks for housing in every major city on top of train stations. 1-3 br apartments, with services on the ground floors.