Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My electorate of Boothby has saved over $2¼ million in reduced prescription co-payments since 1 January 2023. That's over 180,000 prescriptions on the reduced co-payment. But wait—there's more. They've also filled over 29,000 60-day prescriptions, so those people not only saved on the co-payment but also got twice as much medicine for the same price, and they don't need to go back to the doctor for their new prescriptions as often. I met yesterday with my former colleague Dr Sian Goodson from RACGP SA, and I was really pleased to be able to tell her that the recent tripling of the Medicare bulk-billing incentive has resulted in a 4.8 per cent increase in bulk-billing in Boothby.

But let's not forget: free-free TAFE, massively oversubscribed in my electorate; cheaper child care, dropping average childcare fees by 14 per cent; power bill relief for concession-card holders and eligible small businesses; the supermarket inquiry; and backing the rise in the minimum wage. This government has been focused on targeted cost-of-living relief that will not drive inflation but will drive productivity.

What's next? A tax cut for every Australian taxpayer. Eighty-five per cent of Boothby taxpayers will be better off under our plan. Ninety-eight per cent of young people will be better off. Ninety per cent of women will be better off. This government wants Australians to earn more and keep more of what they earn.