Aged package that will deliver tax breaks, extended concessions for self-funded retirees. Super assets to be excluded from means-testing for payments for unemployed over 55.
War widows to keep pension if they remarry.
Limits to access to cholesterol pills. Medicare rebates but cuts to specialist rebates. Continuation of immediate write-off of GST expenses for small businesses. It is understood the reforms involve access to a greater range of training and job search programs and greater freedom for different communities running the program to spend their allocation of money as they please. Centrelink is also expected to adopt a specialised agency to help indigenous unemployed and link the program and its participants to other mainstream employment programs.