Labor’s answer: はいLabor will regulate and educate employers to promote equal opportunity, gender pay equity and work and family balance. Labor will improve gender pay equity including through effective data collection from business by government. Labor will enact an equal pay for equal or comparable work strategy underpinned by legal obligations. Labor will act to bridge the gap in women’s retirement incomes.Source
Labor’s answer: はいBroadly, Labor considers a fair tax system would encourage all Australians to work, equitably distribute wealth and allow governments to provide public services. However, Labor also supports the allocative efficiency of markets, “except where interventions would address market failures and serve environmental or social purposes”.
The National Platform states that Labor tax reform would ensure “everyone pays their fair share of tax” and specifically mentions that executives and the wealthy should pay a “fairer” share of tax. The stated goal of these reforms is to ensure that all levels of government have a sound revenue base for investing in social and economic infrastructure and quality public services.
The Rudd Labor government announced its response to the Henry Review in May 2010. The centrepiece of this announcement was the Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT), a 40% tax on mining profits, in addition to the normal level of company tax. All non‐renewable resources were included, although companies co...Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はいKAP Leader and Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter this week in Parliament voted against the Government to amend the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 which includes a water trigger amendment, which in effect delegates to the State Government's Coal Seam Gas (CSG) project approvals in relation to impacts on water supply.
“There is a conflict of interest when the State Governments receive royalties from the CSG industry. Being judge and jury on the approvals process, when State coffers benefit, mocks the objectivity for farmers,” Mr Katter said.
Mr Katter believes underground water is the life blood of inland Queensland, an inland almost completely bereft of surface water. CSG must drain aquifers and use contaminates thus potentially threatening this precious resource.
Mr Katter voted against the State Government becoming a ‘one stop shop’ for the approvals.
“The Bentley Case in NSW and the corruption that has ensued has resulted it seems from the close and unhealthy relation...Source
Labor’s answer: はいThe National Broadband Network is the biggest, most important infrastructure project in Australia’s history. It is vital to the way we will provide health services, deliver a world class education, do business, deliver smart infrastructure and build a strong and growing economy.Source
Labor’s answer: はいDuring the global financial crisis, Labor’s economic stimulus and investment in the future combined in a period of nation building, creating new opportunities in modern communications and transport for people and goods, lifting long-term productivity and competitiveness and creating economic prosperity.Source
Labor’s answer: はいAll senior Australians deserve to share in Australia’s rising community living standards and to live with dignity and financial security in retirement. Labor will lift retirement incomes fairly and take pressure off the aged pension. Labor will provide a strong and sustainable pension system. Labor will maintain and strengthen pension indexation to reflect the rising cost of living and broader community living standards.Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はいKAP is committed to protecting Australian jobs and maximising the productivity of the workforce to increase employment rates in terms of people in paid work, and more
importantly, the people in full time work.
KAP is committed to achieving this through considered policies that actually support the industries and
businesses that provide the employment opportunities, with a particular emphasis on small business.Source
Katter’s Australian’s answer: はいMr Katter slammed free-trade in Parliament saying it is the result of a colonial inferiority mentality that would sicken any decent Australian. It has wreaked havoc in our country economically and brought in diseases such as citrus canker, panama, black sigatoka and papaya fruit fly.Source