Every election, Anti-Poverty Network SA releases a scorecard comparing the political parties on the key issues affecting low-income people: will they take the massive, urgent action needed to fix the poverty and housing crises?

For this year’s Federal Election on 3 May 2025, we have a full scorecard as well as some mini-scorecards below, on some of our priority demands (our priority demands are listed in our Federal Election flier).

All scorecards are available for downloading and sharing!

MINI-SCORECARDS

FULL SCORECARD

Footnotes

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As of 2024, but nothing in election policies.

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Supports ending MOs in response to 2024 DEWR scandal.

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As of 2022.

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Lowering JobSeeker age of independence & removing parental income for out-of-home participants.

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20,000 social housing units.

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$5 billion housing fund, but no mention of social housing.

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1 million publicly-owned homes & cap rent increases.

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Scrap negative gearing.

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Both universal and fully funded by Medicare.

Downloads

Full Scorecard (.jpg):

Mini-Scorecards (.jpg):