THE TIMELINE FOR AN ABBOTT GOVERNMENT
DAY ONE
* Instruct the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to draft legislation to repeal carbon tax, to be ready within a month
* Treasurer to notify Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to suspend its operations
* Instruct Treasury to prepare legislation to permanently shut-down the CEFC
WEEK ONE
* Establish Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council chaired by Warren Mundine
* Start commission of audit to review all aspects of federal government operations, to report within four months
WITHIN ONE MONTH
* Cabinet to approve legislation to repeal carbon tax
* Start review of indigenous training and employment programs, headed by Andrew Forrest, to report within six months
* ACCC to monitor prices and report quarterly (for two years) on impact of carbon tax
FIRST SITTING DAY
* Introduce legislation to repeal the carbon tax
FIRST SITTING FORTNIGHT
* Introduce legislation to shut-down the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
* Amend laws to ensure registered organisations and their officials have to play by the same rules as companies and their directors
* Reform financial disclosure and reporting guidelines for registered organisations to align with those required by the ASX corporate governance rules
WITHIN TWO MONTHS
* Expand Nauru refugee processing centre to 2000 places
* Start root-and-branch review of competition laws
* Start government-wide processes to cut red tape
WITHIN 100 DAYS (Sept 8 - Dec 16)
* Introduce legislation to abolish mining tax
* Ministerial statement to parliament about Anzac centenary preparations, including 2015 Anzac Day Dawn Services in Turkey and France
* Appoint expert scientific panel to review the science supporting the boundary area for marine protection zones, to report within six months
* Establish Operation Sovereign Borders taskforce led by three-star military commander
* Finalise and issue protocols for Operation Relex II, to turn back asylum seeker boats when safe
* Start leasing and deploying extra boats to help customs and naval vessels
* Immigration minister to visit Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nauru and PNG
* Reintroduce temporary protection visas for refugees already in Australia
* Audit of refugee assessment process with a view to removing appeals to the Refugee Review Tribunal
* Appoint Minister for Trade and Investment
* Take indigenous affairs into Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
* Put all employment issues for people with disability under the Minister for Disabilities and Carers
* Establish a new Standing Council on Law, Crime and Community Safety, to report to prime minister within 12 months
* Establish Joint Commonwealth and Tasmanian Economic Council, led by Dale Elphinstone, to report quarterly to PM for first 18 months of government
* Commission White Paper on energy security
WITHIN SIX MONTHS
* Joint Productivity Commission and ACCC review of Tasmania's shipping costs, freight industry, the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme and the Bass Strait Passenger Vehicle Equalisation Scheme
* Relocate deregulation from the Department of Finance to new unit within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and outline a comprehensive agenda of legislation and regulations to repeal in first term
* Start Productivity Commission review of operation of Fair Work Laws
* Infrastructure Australia to be led by chief executive responsible to the board; abolish current infrastructure
coordinator role
* Complete review of NBN Co commercial progress
* Complete independent audit of NBN design
* Complete independent review into long-term structure and regulation of telecommunications
* Complete review of diplomatic resources
WITHIN 12 MONTHS
* White Paper on the competitiveness of the agriculture sector including considering food security
* White Paper on the development of Northern Australia
* Complete Productivity Commission review of child care
* Start construction on the East West Link in Melbourne with $1.5 billion commonwealth funding
* In first budget establish fair indexation for certain defence pensions, to start July 1, 2014
* Require each department and agency to audit and quantify red tape costs to business and individuals
* One day of parliament in autumn and one in spring dedicated to repealing counterproductive, unnecessary or redundant legislation and associated regulations
* Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Deregulation to table annual red tape reduction report in Parliament
* Designate three agencies with high-volume client interaction to trial three services using next-generation tele-presence from 2014
* Trial the relocation of critical data to a secure government cloud using automated tools from 2014
* Put forward a draft constitutional amendment to recognise indigenous people and establish a bipartisan process to assess its chances of success
* Make agreements with states and territories for "one-stop shop" for environmental approvals
* Finalise position on Big Data Strategy
* Exploration Development Incentive to give tax breaks for mining investments from July 1, 2014
* Minister for Trade and Investment to make annual statement to parliament about new investments and jobs growth
* Prime Minister to make annual statement to parliament on infrastructure
* Pilot program in 2014 for new Colombo Plan including Indonesia, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong
* Set up $100,000 fund for research and information campaigns about online safety, run by the Children's e-Safety Commissioner
WITHIN TWO YEARS
* White Paper on tax reform, take proposals to next election
* White Paper on reform of the federation
* Legislate for 26 weeks paid parental leave at full pay, to start July 1, 2015
* Cut company tax by 1.5 per cent, to start July 1, 2015
* Start new Colombo Plan by 2015 for two-way exchanges with universities in region
* Agencies to report which of their services are not accessible from smartphones
IN FIRST TERM
* Make a decision on second Sydney airport
* Locate a Commonwealth agency in Gosford CBD
* Encourage a quarter of public schools to work independently
* Freeze Passenger Movement Charge at $55 for whole term
BY 2017 (FOUR YEARS)
* Provide all government correspondence, documents and forms in digital format
* Make sure every government interaction that happens more than 50,000 times a year is done online
(Source: Coalition election policy documents; Tony Abbott)
