2024-25 Budget Update

To view sources for my recent 2024-25 Budget Letter, please see the below websites:

Cost of Living

• Easing cost-of-living pressures | Budget 2024–25
• Budget Speech 2024–25 | Treasury Ministers

Housing

• Building more homes for Australians | Budget 2024–25
• Easing cost-of-living pressures | Budget 2024–25

Women, Parents, Students and Older People

• Broadening opportunity and advancing equality | Budget 2024–25
• Strengthening Medicare and the care economy | Budget 2024–25
• Easing cost-of-living pressures | Budget 2024–25

Regional Australia

• Budget Paper No.2
  • See page 145
• Budget 2024-25: Protecting and Growing the Future of Agriculture | Ministers

Infographic:

• Scams: ACCC calls for united front as scammers steal over $3bn from Australians | ACCC
• Adverse Events: https://daen.tga.gov.au/medicines-search/
• Retail bank branch closures: sourced from the Parliamentary Library
  • See Authorised deposit-taking institutions' points of presence statistics | APRA
• Domestic Violence: sourced from the Parliamentary Library
  • See Victorian Family Violence Database (Dashboard)by the Bass Coast, Baw Baw and South Gippsland LGAs
• Social Housing: sourced from the Parliamentary Library
  • See Report on Government Services 2024, Part G, Section 18, Housing data tables 18A.5 and 18A.7
• Cancer Rates: Cancer in Australia statistics | Cancer Australia
• Food Insecurity: Chapter 3 - The impact of supermarket prices on consumers – Parliament of Australia (aph.gov.au)
  • See paragraph 3.9
• Debt: budget.gov.au/content/overview/download/budget-overview-final.pdf
  • See page 58
• Building and Construction: sourced from the Parliamentary Library
  • Insolvency statistics (current) | ASIC