The people of Logan and the southern suburbs of Brisbane are some of the biggest beneficiaries of the Albanese Labor Government’s Budget.
As your local member, I’ve seen firsthand how people are under the pump right now and that’s why as the nation’s Treasurer, Labor’s Budget is focused on easing the cost of living for people in Logan and communities just like ours across the country.
Every taxpayer will get a tax cut, including about 150,000 people in our city.
Every household will get an energy rebate, along with many small businesses.
Nearly 31,000 households in our community will get a bit of extra help to pay the rent with another increase to Commonwealth Rent Assistance – the first back-to-back boost in history to this important payment for people under pressure.
Around 40,000 people in our community will benefit from our policy to wipe $3 billion of student debt.
And around 343,000 locals will benefit from Labor’s policy to make medicines cheaper.
There’s new funding for local roads including an additional $21 million for Mt Lindesay Highway from Johanna Street to South Street, and an additional $1.1 million for Beaudesert Beenleigh Road at Beaudesert and Wolffdene.
And there’s about $78 million for a brand new Logan Indoor Sports Centre that will be built in time for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
This big investment in our local area is a testament to how much we care about easing pressure on people and investing in the future of our local community.
In these pages in recent weeks, you will have seen plenty of partisan propaganda from the Liberals and Nationals making many misleading claims about the Budget without telling us how they would pay for the $315 billion in cuts to essential services they’ve identified but not announced.
The truth is if Peter Dutton and the Coalition cared about our community or cared about the pressure people are under, they would have voted for Labor’s cost of living relief in the Parliament – and not one of them did.
Labor’s Budget was made in Logan, for Logan and communities just like ours across the country, with a real focus on giving people a bit of help when they need it most and investing in the future.
Our economic plan and our whole government is all about creating more opportunities for more Australians to get ahead and provide for their loved ones and that’s exactly what the Budget will do – whether it’s energy rebates, tax cuts, rent assistance, cheaper medicines or our big investment in housing.
Only a Labor government will deliver for the people of Logan and the southern suburbs of Brisbane and that’s exactly what we showed in the Budget.
