FOCUp

Australian Labor Party

Labor's plan to FOCUp

A team-up of NSW Labor, Victorian Labor, Queensland Labor, WA Labor, SA Labor, Tasmanian Labor, ACT Labor, Territory Labor

Official websitePolicy platform

This platform against the 2026-27 Australia budget

65 of this party's 67 promises have a price tag worked out. Another 12 have a price but do not say which part of the budget it comes out of, so only 53 can be shown in the numbers. The remaining 2 are listed further down without a price.

Published net effect
+$652.8M
Every one of the 65 published costings, added up. Not modelled by FOCUp — this is the costing figure itself.
Effect of the modelled subset
+$1.6B
Only the 53 of 65 costed policies that map to a line in this budget, landing at -$16,355,783,000. It is a partial view and it is what the simulator below loads.
Government baseline balance
-$17,954,883,000
Balance with this platform
-$17,302,083,000
The baseline plus every published costing.

Not included in the figure above (14)

  • 20 medical CSPs for the University of Tasmania— No published costing (Education)
  • 20 Medical CSPs for the University of Tasmania— No published costing
  • Boyer Paper Mill— Not tied to a budget line
  • Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve— Not tied to a budget line
  • Delivering 100,000 homes and 5% deposits for all first home buyers— Not tied to a budget line
  • Economic Resilience Program— Not tied to a budget line
  • Extending Revive Live— Not tied to a budget line
  • Funding for SmackTalk— Not tied to a budget line
  • Local environmental projects— Not tied to a budget line
  • Major and local community infrastructure projects— Not tied to a budget line
  • Online safety tools in schools— Not tied to a budget line
  • Perth Hills Resilience Package 2— Not tied to a budget line
  • Supporting Australian National Academy of Music's South Melbourne Town Hall redevelopment— Not tied to a budget line
  • Weather radar for Regional Queensland— Not tied to a budget line
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Recorded policy positions

These are the promises this party has made, and where each one was announced.

“Costed” means someone has worked out the price tag. Parties can ask an independent government office — the Parliamentary Budget Office — to check what a promise would actually cost. When that has happened, the dollar figure is shown here, along with a small number that links to the document it came from at the bottom of the page.

“Not costed” means nobody has put a price on it yet. That is common for promises made early in a campaign. Where that is the case we say so and leave the money column empty. We do not guess a number — a made-up figure would be worse than no figure, because it would look exactly as real as a checked one.

Election promise (67)

  • $1,000 instant tax deduction for work-related expenses

    Election promiseSpends more

    Treasury · ECR-2025-1700 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Government Administration
    Costing
    $2,488,900,0001

  • 1800MEDICARE

    Election promiseSpends more

    Health and Aged Care · ECR-2025-1500 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Health
    Costing
    $208,700,0001

  • 20 medical CSPs for the University of Tasmania

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Education · ECR-2025-1624 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Education
    Costing
    No published costing

  • 20 Medical CSPs for the University of Tasmania

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Public debt interest impacts included in individual commitments · ECR-2025-1624 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Not tied to a budget line
    Costing
    No published costing

  • Accessing new markets

    Election promiseSpends more

    Foreign Affairs and Trade · ECR-2025-1328 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Government Administration
    Costing
    $50,000,0001

  • ACT health and aged care package

    Election promiseSpends more

    Health and Aged Care · ECR-2025-1406 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Health
    Costing
    $24,300,0001

  • Additional funding to support Urgent Care Clinics 2

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Health and Aged Care · ECR-2025-1116 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Health
    Costing
    $01

  • Advanced Entry Trades Training

    Election promiseSpends more

    Employment and Workplace Relations · ECR-2025-1631 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Welfare
    Costing
    $78,100,0001

  • Backing men's health

    Election promiseSpends more

    Health and Aged Care · ECR-2025-1117 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Health
    Costing
    $32,000,0001

  • Bendigo Veterans' And Families' Hub

    Election promiseSpends more

    Defence and Veterans' Affairs · ECR-2025-1697 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Defence
    Costing
    $5,400,0001

  • Boosting Alice Springs tourism

    Election promiseSpends more

    Foreign Affairs and Trade · ECR-2025-1784 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Government Administration
    Costing
    $8,500,0001

  • Boosting innovative perpetrator responses

    Election promiseSpends more

    Social Services · ECR-2025-1822 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Welfare
    Costing
    $8,600,0001

  • Boyer Paper Mill

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water · ECR-2025-1883 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Not tied to a budget line
    Costing
    $19,000,0001

  • Building new child care centres 2

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Education · ECR-2025-1507 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Education
    Costing
    $01

  • Burnie Health Hub

    Election promiseSpends more

    Health and Aged Care · ECR-2025-1143 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Health
    Costing
    $8,000,0001

  • Careflight

    Election promiseSpends more

    Health and Aged Care · ECR-2025-1850 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Health
    Costing
    $10,100,0001

  • Community language schools

    Election promiseSpends more

    Home Affairs · ECR-2025-1878 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Justice
    Costing
    $25,600,0001

  • Constructing a health and engineering wing at CQUniversity in Cairns

    Election promiseSpends more

    Health and Aged Care · ECR-2025-1686 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Health
    Costing
    $27,500,0001

  • Cracking down on financial abuse 2

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Treasury · ECR-2025-1072 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Government Administration
    Costing
    $01

  • Crime Stoppers

    Election promiseSpends more

    Attorney-General's · ECR-2025-1559 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Justice
    Costing
    $5,000,0001

  • Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve

    Election promiseSpends more

    Industry, Science and Resources · ECR-2025-1529 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Industry & Construction
    Costing
    $241,600,0001

  • Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Public debt interest impacts included in individual commitments · ECR-2025-1529 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Not tied to a budget line
    Costing
    $56,100,0001

  • Dandenong Hospital ICU upgrade

    Election promiseSpends more

    Health and Aged Care · ECR-2025-1157 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Health
    Costing
    $5,000,0001

  • Delivering 100,000 homes and 5% deposits for all first home buyers

    Election promiseSpends more

    Treasury · ECR-2025-1344 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Government Administration
    Costing
    $643,700,0001

  • Delivering 100,000 homes and 5% deposits for all first home buyers

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Public debt interest impacts included in individual commitments · ECR-2025-1344 — assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Office for the 2025 federal election.

    Budget line
    Not tied to a budget line
    Costing
    $132,000,0001

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Sources

Every costing shown above was read from one of these documents.

  1. 1.PBO 2025 Election Commitments Report, Appendix A (Australian Labor Party) https://www.pbo.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-06/PBO%202025%20ECR%20-%20Appendix%20A%20-%20Australian%20Labor%20Party.xlsx