We propose cutting back Franking Credits and adding a Junk Food Tax to fund adding key dental procedures to Medicare*.

(*Excluding Conservative Electorates – see One Country, Two Systems)

Poor dental care drives a range of other health problems.

Junk Food Tax

This would be levied on retailers that stock junk ‘food’ products that cause ill-health and could be proportional to the retailers floor area.

This is likely to be based on sugar content per gram but may consider other factors that make products toxic.

Sugary soft drinks, cake and biscuits would be early targets.

This tax would be set at a level to deter sale of junk products rather than to raise revenue.

No Medicare Levy Surcharge

Currently this is levied on your income tax if you don’t have private health insurance.

We would scrap this as many Australians may not need private health cover if Medicare includes essential dental work.

Money saved from funding the private health insurance rebate can be re-directed to the public health system.

We are pro-vaccination and pro-science

If you are looking for an anti-vax, anti-science party please look elsewhere.