Governor-General David Hurley has outlined the Morrison government's agenda for the 46th parliament in a speech to the Senate chamber.
TAX AND THE ECONOMY
* $158 billion worth of income tax cuts split across three stages spanning the next five years
* Deliver $45 billion in surpluses over the next four years
* Create 1.25 million jobs over the next five years, including jobs for 250,000 young people
* Eliminate net debt by 2030
* See another 250,000 small and family businesses open over five years
* To see 10,000 more Australian companies exporting to the world by 2022
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
* Measures to make it easier to de-register rogue unions and officials
* A review of workplace laws
JOBS
* $585 million commitment to improving skills and training -- including creating 80,000 new apprenticeships and establishing 10 new training hubs in key locations of high youth unemployment in regional Australia
* Create National Skills Commission and a National Careers Institute
* Mid-career checkpoint to support people, particularly women, returning to work after caring for children or older relatives
HOUSING
* First Home Loan Deposit Scheme to allow people to access finance without having to save a 20 per cent deposit,
* From mid-2020, first home buyers who have already saved at least 5 per cent of their deposit, and who earn up to $125,000 for a single person or $200,000 for couples, will be able to get better and earlier access to mortgage finance.
* Money to unlock new housing supply
* Releasing more suitable Commonwealth land for housing development
INFRASTRUCTURE
* $100 billion for a raft of major projects around the country
* Reduce the migration cap by 15 per cent and provide incentive for more new migrants to settle outside the big cities
HEALTH
* Invest an extra $31 billion in public hospitals over the next five years
* $308 million to reduce the cost of life-changing medicines
MENTAL HEALTH
* Almost $740 million for youth mental health and suicide prevention services
* Increase support for mental health services for indigenous people
EDUCATION
* Increase funding for all primary and secondary schools, across all sectors, by an average of 62 per cent per student to $310 billion over the next decade
DEFENCE AND VETERANS
* Restore defence spending to 2 per cent of GDP
* Six new veterans' well-being hubs around the country
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
* Strengthening our relationship with the US
* Expand and deepen relationship with China
* Australia's Pacific Step-Up -- a strategy to boost engagement with Australia's Pacific neighbours
* Work with like-minded partners to uphold and reinforce the rules-based global order
ENERGY
* Introduce a default market offer for electricity and ban unconscionable late payment fees
* Five million eligible social security recipients will benefit from Energy Assistance Payments of $75 for singles and $125 for couples
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE
* Meet 2030 targets under the government's Climate Solutions Plan
* $1 billion for Phase 2 of the National Landcare Program
* $1.2 billion for the future health of the Great Barrier Reef
* Reduce waste and increase recycling
* Take up a global advocacy position with other nations in the region, like Indonesia, on the health of our oceans
REGIONAL AUSTRALIA
* Create the $3.9 billion Future Drought Fund.
* Criminalise the invasion of rural properties, particularly by activists
* Concessional loans for re-stocking and replanting to help farmers bounce back when drought breaks
* Permanently raise farm asset threshold to $5 million to allow more people to access welfare assistance
* A new concessional loan product to help farmers to buy their first farm
* Five regional study hubs
* Eliminate mobile phone black spots across one million square kilometres
INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
* Create the National Indigenous Australians Agency to oversee all policy and programs relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
* Practical efforts to ensure indigenous children are healthy and in school and live safely in their communities
* Confront youth suicide in remote communities;
* Improve employment outcomes
* Work for consensus on a way forward for constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians
OLDER PEOPLE
* Establish an Aged Care Workforce Research Centre
* $10 million to keep senior Australians connected to their communities and to one another
FAMILY VIOLENCE
* $328 million investment into prevention and frontline services as part of a plan to reduce violence against women and children
ONLINE SAFETY
* Crack down on social media providers, online predators and trolls, to better protect children and the broader community
* A new Online Safety Act
* $156 million to protect all Australians from cyber-attacks that harm individuals, businesses and national security.
(Source: Governor-General's speech at the opening of the 46th parliament)
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