Independent MP Sophie Scamps will challenge Labor and the Liberals to back a new agency focused on long-term reforms. Scamps will propose a commission to consider the wellbeing of future generations, arguing that current policies are failing to address key issues like housing, climate change, and taxation. She will base her support in a hung parliament on policies like public integrity, climate change, and health.
Independent MP Sophie Scamps will challenge Labor and the Liberals to back a new agency to build the case for long-term reform, as she sets out her approach to deciding which side takes power if the election leads to a hung parliament.
Scamps said she would decide her support in a hung parliament based on policies including public integrity, climate change and health – a key issue given her background as a doctor on the northern beaches of Sydney. Scamps said she wanted the “commission for wellbeing” because governments needed better advice on the reforms needed to help future generations.
Asked her approach in a hung parliament, Scamps said she would seek action on her priorities – such as climate and housing – but knew that Labor had broken agreements it made in the hung parliament of 2010 when Julia Gillard was prime minister. “There’s been a very direct advertising campaign – ads on social media and on TV – saying that I’m for increasing taxes, which is not true,” Scamps said.
HUNG PARLIAMENT REFORM CLIMATE CHANGE TAXATION WELLBEING
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