Supporting local families with their household budget pressures, like cutting the fuel excise in half, saving you 22 cents per litre for six months. We’re also making a one-off $250 payment to 22,137 local pensioners and carers and increasing their regular payments. And we’re making childcare affordable for local families.

Our economic recovery plan lowers taxes for families and small business and invests in skills, infrastructure and manufacturing. Around 75,700 local low and middle income earners will receive up to $1,500 in further tax relief this year that includes a $420 tax offset. And we’re investing in extra skills and training with expanded wage subsidies.

We’re investing in fixing local roads to save lives and reduce travel times. We’ve already invested $3.8 billion in infrastructure funding to the Gold Coast. Major local projects include Stage 3 of the Gold Coast Light Rail to link Helensvale to Burleigh Heads, delivering eight additional stations and more than $1 billion on the Coomera Connector project between Coomera and Nerang to reduce pressure on the M1.

Investing in better services and a stronger Medicare by delivering more than 613,000 local Medicare Telehealth consultations. We’re funding more than 2.1 million free or subsidised medicines available locally. We’re investing record funding in aged care to help the 30,303 seniors living locally, while funding for public schools will increase by over 30% to 2029.

I’m proud that we’re investing in our local communities, with better facilities and public spaces and a healthy local environment that families can enjoy now and into the future, like $596,650 to extend our Nerang Community Bowls Club. And we have a fully costed plan for Net Zero emissions by 2050 and our policies have supported the installation of 21,700 rooftop solar panels locally.