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About this archive
Topics are assigned during statement analysis and linked to party platform policies. Statements tagged as Other are also matched by content keywords. Use this page to trace how parties and members engage with education policy areas.
Party platform policies
Australian Labor Party
Childcare and family payments
Labor’s current settings include Child Care Subsidy percentage reforms, expanded Parental Leave Pay weeks, and Family Tax Benefit Parts A/B with income tests.
Australian Labor Party
Education and student debt
Labor’s current settings include HECS-HELP indexation changes (wage-price index approach), Fee-Free TAFE places, and Universities Accord-related higher education directions. HELP repayment thresholds remain income-contingent.
Liberal Party of Australia
Childcare and family payments
The Liberal Party supports families through tax and payment settings and flexible childcare options. They emphasize safety in childcare, including calls for a perpetrator register to protect children. The party is increasingly concerned about the long-term impacts of Labor's economic policies, which they argue could impose higher taxes and financial burdens on families and small business owners.
Liberal Party of Australia
Education and student debt
Liberal platform material emphasises university quality, vocational skills, and financially sustainable HELP settings, while also highlighting concerns about Labor's economic policies potentially increasing financial burdens on families and small business owners.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Childcare and family payments
One Nation emphasises parental choice in care arrangements and opposes Labor's capital gains tax (CGT) discount for foreign investors, advocating for amendments to remove controversial CGT changes that could burden Australian investors and businesses.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Education and student debt
One Nation criticises student debt burdens and university funding priorities, while also emphasizing the need for accountability and transparency in governance. This includes a call for the potential redaction of personal details to ensure integrity in institutions affecting everyday Australians, including farmers and small business owners.
Recent statements
Today is World Teachers’ Day. The difference that teachers make for our kids and young people lasts a lifeti…
It’s World Teachers Day. Teachers light the way forward. They believe in us, before we even believe in oursel…
What happens when teachers start by asking students what excites them? At Gold Creek School, Tamsyn Terry’s ap…
There’s mounting evidence we need a digital detox in our schools. This will be on the agenda when education m…
Go to school. It’s simple. That’s my message to students who plan to protest on a school day and especially o…
Media Release: 2027 university places allocated under new managed growth system https://t.co/mPTFjSuW2Y
After 17 years of ACARA, can we actually point to measurable improvements in student performance or attendance…
Our children deserve safe and high quality early education and care. They deserve nothing less. That’s why w…
Speech: National Schools Science and Engineering Challenge https://t.co/HsJ6IpPACn
Speech: Australian International Education Conference 2026 https://t.co/H1a8PyEWOz
I have said we need a digital detox in our schools. A new report says the average Year 11 and 12 student spen…
We’re fixing the funding of public schools and tying it to reform. We have now signed long-term agreements w…
Coles and Woolies workers are abused, airline staff are abused. Ambulance paramedics are abused. Teachers are…
Last month I quoted St Joseph’s College Headmaster, Michael Blake in the Parliament. He told the young men at…
We’ve just signed a long term agreement with the Victorian Government to fix the funding of all Victorian publ…
About 15 years ago David Gonski put in place a formula for how we should fund our schools. No government has…
There are amazing things happening in schools across Perth’s south. Thanks to the students, teachers and staf…
Media Release: Long-term agreement to fully fund Victorian public schools https://t.co/YqLbCpbG9k
We’ve got some big news. Today we signed a long-term agreement with the Victorian Government to fully and fai…
I want more young people in the regions to get a crack at going to uni. The evidence is that where University…
Great to see a lot of smiling faces today as we opened the new classrooms at St John’s Catholic Primary School…
Media Release: Legislation passes Parliament to help students access free support from the National Student Om…
The international student visa system is being exploited as a back-door entry to Australia rather than for gen…
Far too many teachers are actively trying to turn your children into gay communists. https://t.co/JAPRYuA8ZO
This morning I will introduce a bill requiring universities to prevent, combat and respond to antisemitism, us…
Platform divergences
No divergences for this topic.