Each position below is sourced exclusively from the party's own published materials — never from media coverage. Click a party for its full platform, donors and members. Individual members' own stated positions are on their record pages.
Australian Labor Party party platform
Labor policy commits to strengthening Medicare so that 9 out of 10 GP visits are bulk-billed by 2030 via the largest increase to the bulk billing incentive in Medicare's history, alongside cheaper medicines, Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, a $1 billion investment in free public mental health services, and an additional $25 billion for public hospitals.
Liberal Party party platform
The party's plan states a Coalition government would invest an additional $9 billion into Medicare and permanently double the number of Medicare-subsidised mental health sessions from 10 to 20.
Australian Greens party platform
The platform commits to bringing dental care into Medicare so every Medicare card holder can access general dental, orthodontic and restorative services at no cost, alongside establishing free healthcare clinics offering GP, dental, nursing and mental health services with no out-of-pocket costs.
Victorian Socialists party platform
The platform calls for fully free universal health care, increased federal hospital funding, nationalising GP clinics with bulk-billing, replacing the NDIS with Medicare-funded publicly run disability services, adding dental and mental health care to Medicare, expanding the PBS, mandated nurse and aged-care staffing ratios, and ending subsidies to private health insurers.
The Nationals party platform
The party's policy commits to investing an additional $9 billion into Medicare, alongside $100 million to upgrade regional medical training facilities and 200 additional regional medical Commonwealth Supported Places to deliver more GPs for regional Australia.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party party platform
The party's policy proposes requiring photo ID on Medicare cards and cracking down on what it states is up to $3 billion in annual Medicare fraud, with savings redirected to lifting bulk-billing rates and increasing Medicare rebates so GPs are better remunerated. It also commits to boosting the regional health workforce by offering newly qualified medical professionals three-year contracts with their HECS-HELP loans paid in full.
Animal Justice Party party platform
The party supports a universal, publicly funded healthcare system, states everyone has a right to high-quality, affordable, accessible and culturally safe healthcare, and supports increased investment in free and affordable medical, dental and mental health services and increased nurse and midwife-to-patient ratios.
Family First Party party platform
Family First states that the health of the nation starts with the health of each family, and supports the public hospital system with fair and equal access to essential care, including for disadvantaged, isolated, aged, and rural or remote people, alongside affordable dental care and mental health support.
Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party party platform
The NSW platform states support for retaining and increasing nursing staff in the health system and calls for greater funding to regional communities to address mental health issues.
Legalise Cannabis Party party platform
The party approaches cannabis regulation from a stated public health perspective prioritising the needs of patients and consumers, and its TGA Medical Cannabis Review submission calls for reduced regulatory barriers and support for local producers to lower medicinal cannabis prices and improve patient access; the party also argues that people with mental illness may be self-medicating with cannabis and that some cannabis compounds such as CBD may have therapeutic properties.
Katter's Australian Party party platform
The platform called for an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, including "no jab, no job" requirements for health, aged care and disability workers, arguing mandates caused workforce shortages, and proposed rapid antigen testing as an alternative pathway for reopening rather than mandatory vaccination.
Libertarian Party party platform
The party would cease all Commonwealth government involvement in health (and education), transferring these functions to state and local government as part of a "competitive federalism" approach meant to divide power and encourage competition between states.
Centre Alliance party platform
Calls for preventive healthcare funding to reduce chronic disease, expanded telemedicine for regional areas, reinstatement of the 30% private health insurance rebate, an evidence-based review of health system efficiency, and a dental scheme allowing pensioners to claim up to $1,000 every two years.
Jacqui Lambie Network party platform
Opposes a proposed cap on allied health services for veterans, stating treatment should be based on clinical need rather than annual funding caps, consistent with the findings of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.
Australian Christians party platform
The party's health policy states it will address hospital waitlists, repeal legislation it says undermines "the biological reality of binary genders," champion a "drug free Australia" through early intervention and rehabilitation, and oppose coercive vaccine mandates, which it says result in loss of personal autonomy and livelihoods; it also supports a Royal Commission into the handling of the Covid pandemic.
Democratic Labour Party party platform
The party proposes expanding public hospital capacity and workforce, including mandating maximum one-hour emergency department waits as performance benchmarks, increasing doctor, nurse and hospital bed numbers, capping the ratio of bureaucrats to front-line clinicians, and increasing the Medicare levy while raising the private health insurance tax offset.
United Australia Party party platform
The New Deal commits to increasing the health budget by 100%, making all medical services including GP visits free, funded by savings from abolishing the NDIS, with current benefit and NDIS recipients instead receiving an Australian Care Benefit set 30% above current pension levels. It also proposes incentives for doctors and nurses to serve in regional areas and legislation ensuring drug companies are not exempt from damages claims.