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Only Anthony Albanese and Labor have a plan for a better future for all Australians.

Follow along here for speech highlights from @AlboMP as he speaks at Labor's campaign launch in Perth.

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I want to work with all premiers, regardless of which party they are from

Because I want to bring all the states together and get things done for the whole country

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In the past 3 years, through the devastation of bushfires & floods and the once-in-a-century shock of a global pandemic, Australians have been simply magnificent

In the toughest of times people have stepped up, but their govt has let them down

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I know Labor can do better and I know Australians deserve better

And if you vote for a Labor Government on the 21st of May, the work of building that better future will start the very next day

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As we gather here in Western Australia, on the lands of Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation, I am proud to promise our Labor Government will work with First Nations people to implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full

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I do want to acknowledge two great Labor Prime Ministers here today

Paul Keating and Kevin Rudd

Two leaders who left lasting legacies

Who changed Australia for the better

Who never said, “it’s not my job”

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Scott Morrison says you don’t have to like him, but it’s better the devil you know

Here’s what Australians do know: they know he failed on bush fires and they know then he failed on floods

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They know Morrison didn’t order enough vaccines and then didn’t order enough rapid antigen tests

They know it’s harder to see a doctor

They know aged care is in crisis

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They know it’s harder to buy a home

And the costs of everything is going up but your wages aren’t

That’s the devil you know

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Australia: If we stand still, we will be left behind.

If we don’t shape the future, the future will shape us.

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Australia does not have 3 more years to waste

That’s why the choice you face is so important, it’s so urgent - and so clear

Because at this election, only Labor has a plan to seize this moment for 🇦🇺

Only Labor has a plan for a better future

- @AlboMP #auspol #AusVotes22

Today I announce that Labor will build more electric vehicle charging stations so we can close the gaps that are there in the network

And that means you’ll be able to drive an electric vehicle across the country

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Imagine a future where you don’t have to worry about petrol bills

We can get there, but we need government to build the foundation for it

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Today I announce that, as part of our National Reconstruction Fund, Labor will invest $1 billion in developing value-added products from Australian resources

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We’ll take resources like lithium & nickel – essential elements of the 🔋 that will power the🚗of the future – & instead of shipping them to another country to make 🔋, we’ll have what we need to make them right here

And we will sell them to the 🌎

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We will bring manufacturing back home

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A govt I lead will also proudly Buy Australian

We’ll make sure the projects we commission bring benefits to Australian companies, & we’ll help Australian small and medium businesses compete for contracts

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Under this government, nation-building has replaced by pork barrelling.

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We can’t continue to see permanent jobs replaced by insecure casual ones

Your bills aren’t casual

People who want secure work need to be able to find it again

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I believe that Australia’s greatest untapped and available resource is the full and respectful economic participation of women

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Today I announce Labor will make gender pay equity an objective of the Fair Work Act

We will set up Expert Panels on pay equity and the care and community sector to help improve pay and conditions for women in those sectors

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We need to fix the persistent, structural barriers that prevent so many women securing decent jobs and careers, and financial security over the course of your lives

That will be a key focus of a government I lead

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Education remains the most powerful weapon we have against disadvantage and the best investment we can make in the future of our country

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That’s why we’re going to fund more university places and 465,000 fee-free places at public TAFEs

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Child Care

Medicare and Aged Care

It’s only ever Labor Governments who do the big reforms, drive the big changes, reshape the economy in the best interests of people

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Bob Hawke and Paul Keating created Medicare and universal superannuation

Kevin Rudd created the National Broadband Network

Julia Gillard built the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with the critical support of Bill Shorten

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These reforms stand as markers of a decent society

They speak to the best of Australia’s values

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Today I announce that Labor will make medicines cheaper for millions of Australians

We will make all medications on the PBS $12.50 cheaper for general patients

This means the maximum price for PBS medicines will be $30

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The price of medications has gone up under the Morrison Government - just like the cost to see a doctor has gone up

Medicare will always be stronger under Labor

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The costs of child care are simply unaffordable

The neglect in aged care is unconscionable

We can do better than this

I will make it the Labor government’s mission to do better than this and fix this

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Critically, Labor will put nurses back in nursing homes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

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In our debate the other night, Scott Morrison mocked this plan saying ‘nurses won’t fall out of the sky’.

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He thinks it’s somehow clever to say he’s not even going to try to fix it

Not even going to try

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That’s his way, that’s his character

Whenever Australia needs a solution, he offers only smirk and mirrors

We can do better than this, so much better than this

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I am proud to announce a new policy that will reward the hard work & support the aspirations of more Australians

A plan to help more working families realise the dream of owning their own🏠

A plan that invests in 🇦🇺’s greatest asset: our people

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Help to Buy will assist Australians buy a home with a smaller deposit, a smaller mortgage and smaller mortgage repayments

An Australian Labor Government will help you achieve the great Australian dream of home ownership

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I want to build a better future – and I want to help more Australians own a stake in it

Help to Buy is exactly what I mean when I talk about an economy that works for people, rather than people just working for an economy

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Scott Morrison just keeps on scrambling from one photo op to another, boasting that the Australian people “know who he is”

Well, he’s got that right

They don’t think, they know

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People know Scott Morrison goes missing when the going gets tough

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Australians understand we can’t bet our future on three more years of a Prime Minister who looks at every challenge facing our country and says: ‘That’s not my job’

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For a decade now, the Liberals and Nationals have treated governing as an inconvenience and public money as a political slush fund

If you vote Labor, we will change this

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A Labor Government will restore trust and accountability to politics, with a National Anti-Corruption Commission.

And I commit to this as your Prime Minister – I won’t run from responsibility.

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I know we have been through tough times, I know the sacrifices so many of you have made

You have earned a better future

On 21st of May, I am asking you to vote for that better future

- @AlboMP #auspol #AusVotes22