Oz Politics

The policies

2004

This page captures the key PDF documents issued during the election campaign. If you need more information you could check out the National Library of Australia, which has archived the political sites of the parties here.

Coalition	Labor
Scene setting Headland speech 8 July 2004 Election date announcement Howard Plan for A Stronger Australia Manifesto Industry and economic Industry Tourism Energy Superannuation Economy Small business Australian Exporters Workplace flexibility Independent Contractors Enterprise Culture Environment Sustainability Tasmania Sustainable farming Water #2 Water Rural and regional Stronger Regions Tasmanian economy Farming North Queensland Darwin Hospital Northern Territory Australia’s North West Shelf Western Sydney Kalgoorlie Arts, telecommunications and transport Arts Broadcasting Australian Film Industry ABC radio coverage Access to Broadband Information Technology Community Broardcasting Post Transport Social policy Disability Women Sport Cancer Schools Seniors Mental health Dementia Technical Colleges Careers Advisors Medicare after hours Schools Assistance for Families Apprenticships #4 Stronger Families and Communities Apprenticships #3 Mature Age Workers Tax Offset Medicare National Child Protection Initiative Institute for Trade Skills Apprenticships #2 Apprenticships Crime Investing for the Future Immigration, defence and foreign National Security Security Defence Intelligence Vetrans Trade Quarantine Border Protection Defence Industry Terrorism Other Emergencey Management Indigenous Local Government	Scene setting 27 Lies and Counting 35 Lies and Counting Education and employment Jobs First Statistics Aim Higher: Learning, Training and Better Jobs for More Australians Great Australian Schools Better Schools Better Values More male role models for boys Skills policy Enterprise Health Hospitals - policy document Hospitals - fact sheet Dental policy Mental health policy and fact sheet Medicare Doctors and nurses Medicare Gold and fact sheet Aged care Immigration, foreign, trade and defence Trade Defence Coastgard Veterans Foreign affairs Industry and economic Tax [tables] [costing] [rates] Tourism Corporate Governance Arts, trasnport and telecommunications Arts policy Broadcasting ABC Film and TV Australia Post Australian Music Telecommunications Telecommunications consumer charter Road safety Land transport Aviation Environment Environment Policy Rare And Endangered Species River Murray Tasmanian Forsts Queensland’s tropical north Rural amd regional Agriculture Tasmania Western Australia Northern Australia Regional Airport Security Other Machinery of Government Public service Sport and recreation Child care policy and fact sheet Indigenous policy Indigenous arts Water safety Maritime policy

Coalition

Labor

Scene setting

Industry and economic

Environment

Rural and regional

Arts, telecommunications and transport

Social policy

Immigration, defence and foreign

Other

Scene setting

Education and employment

Health

Immigration, foreign, trade and defence

Industry and economic

Arts, trasnport and telecommunications

Environment

Rural amd regional

Other

Transcript of the 12 September 2004 debate.

Past elections

2001

Coalition	Labor
Policy statements on: Aged care Agriculture Arts Biofuels Border protection Broadcasting Carers Child tax refund Defence personnel Defence Drugs Economy Environment Families and Communities Foreign affairs Health Higher education Immigration Indigenous affairs Industrial relations Industry Information economy Information industries Law enforcement Local government Multicutural affairs Australia post Regions Resources and energy Schools Science Small business Superannuation Telecommunications Tourism Trade Transport Veterans Vocational education Women Work for the dole Youth Also: Election booklet Heading in the right direction	Policy statements on: Aged care Agriculture Arts Banking Broadcasting Cancer Carers Childcare Climate change Defence Defence personnel Dental health Disability services Education Employment Environment Fairer GST Families Foreign affairs Forestry Fuel Housing Indigenous affairs Infrastructure Job security Justice Local government Medicare Music Northern Australia Older Australians Public hospitals Regions Safer communities Salinity Schools Schools (2) Simpler GST South Australia Sport Tasmania Telecommunications Telstra Tourism Trade Universities Veterans Young families

Coalition

Labor

Policy statements on:

Also:

Policy statements on:

1998

Download the Coalition’s pre-election policy statements from the 1998 election (About 1.7MB of MS Word in zip file format).

I do not have the Labor policy statements from the 1998 election. If someone could send them to me I would be appreciative.

1996

Download the Coalition’s pre-election policy statements from the 1996 election (About 1MB of MS Word in zip file format).

John Howard’s 1995 headland speeches:

I do not have the Labor policy statements from the 1996 election. If someone could send them to me I would be appreciative.

1972

Labor’s 1972 “It’s Time” campaign song. Thanks to John (Jack) McKinley for this piece of memorabilia. (There is a ten second lead in before the music starts).