POSSIBLE OUTCOMES FROM A HUNG PARLIAMENT
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Independent candidates have set out a range of policies they want. If there is a balance-of-power scenario in the House of Representatives they will be well placed to secure commitments from major parties.
WHAT DO KEY INDEPENDENTS WANT?
Allegra Spender (Wentworth)
* Cut carbon emissions by at least 50 per cent by 2030
* Smart, sustainable and fiscally responsible economy
* Better funding for education and health
* Federal ICAC, more transparency of political donations, funding for ABC
* Protect LGBTQI and Indigenous people and refugees.
Kylea Tink (North Sydney)
* Net zero by 2040 and reduce national emissions by 60 per cent by 2030
* Decarbonisation and an economy powered by well-educated and highly trained young Australians
* Federal ICAC and donation reform, stronger powers for auditor-general
* Paid parental leave, universal access to early childhood education
* Review of COVID-19 experience and National Centre for Disease Control.
Dr Sophie Scamps (Mackellar)
* 50 per cent reduction in climate pollution by 2030
* Federal ICAC, reform political donations
* Community-led family and domestic violence services, eliminating gender pay gap
* Improve mental health services, increase wages for nurses and midwives.
Zali Steggall (Warringah)
* Future-focused circular economy, return to budget discipline
* Carbon neutral economy, net zero framework, future-proof agriculture
* Better access to NDIS
* End indefinite detention for refugees
* Address housing affordability and security
Zoe Daniel (Goldstein)
* Federal ICAC
* Halve emissions by 2030 and achieve net zero before 2050
* Housing affordability in tax review
* Migration policy to attract high skilled workers.
* Supports right of Jewish people to a safe and secure homeland in the state of Israel.
Monique Ryan (Kooyong)
* Reduce emissions by 60 per cent by 2030, transition to electric vehicles
* Sustainable recovery from COVID for small and medium businesses, university and the arts
* Federal ICAC, reform political campaign funding, truth in political advertising
* Support for First Nations Australians and the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Kate Chaney (Curtin)
* 50 per cent reduction in emissions by 2030, independent climate commission
* Federal ICAC, better disclosure of political donations
* Improve housing affordability.
INCUMBENT CROSSBENCHERS
Helen Haines (Indi)
* Locally owned renewable energy, cheaper home batteries
* Funding for Albury Wodonga Hospital and outdated local health facilities, locally trained healthcare workers
* Improve NBN for regional Australians
* Better rail transport
* Regional Housing Infrastructure Fund.
Andrew Wilkie (Clark)
* Electric vehicles, protecting forests, 100 per cent renewables, independent environment protection authority
* Protect Tasmanian fish farms
* Support for First Nations Australians and the Uluru Statement from the Heart
* Increased rent assistance and support for first home buyers
* Federal ICAC, political donations reform
* National Independent Office of Animal Welfare.
Rebekha Sharkie (Mayo)
* Federal ICAC, better disclosure of political donations
* Funding for and preservation of agriculture
* Better Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme coverage for critical medications
* Climate action, keeps plastics out of the oceans, minimise big oil.
Bob Katter (Kennedy)
* National Energy Grid
* Protection of property rights
* Open, public registry of foreign ownership
* Remove tax on Australian-produced biofuels
* No carbon tax, no emissions trading scheme, no mining tax.
Adam Bandt (Greens, Melbourne)
* Federal ICAC, better donation disclosure
* Treaty process with First Nations people
* No more coal and gas
* Corporate super-profits tax of 40 per cent
* Establish minimum living wage at 60 per cent of the median wage and lift wages for everyone so no one is below the poverty line
* Lift JobSeeker to $80 a day
* Medicare-funded free dental care.
Craig Kelly (United Australia Party, Hughes)
* Strengthen Australia's defence, expand gold card benefits for veterans
* Repayment of national debt, abolish fringe benefits and provisional tax, abolish national cabinet
* Fund hospitals, increase age pension by $180 a fortnight
* Abolish HECS debts for students
* Maximum three per cent interest on home loans, make first $30,000 of home loans tax deductible.
This explainer is written in a personal capacity
Australian Associated Press