Overview

• Attendees settled on ten priorities spanning housing approvals, regulatory cuts, artificial intelligence and service modernisation, with Treasury and the Productivity Commission now developing options.
• Chalmers framed tax reform around intergenerational fairness, investment incentives and simplification, with no measures settled as unions pressed changes to negative gearing, capital gains and a 25% minimum rate on incomes above $1 million.
• The government will pursue early moves including scrapping more nuisance tariffs, simplifying the National Construction Code, clearing environmental approval backlogs, fast‑tracking an AI strategy and drafting a “tell us once” regulatory reform bill.
• A national road‑user charge gathered support, with models still to be designed and state treasurers meeting on September 5 to discuss a coordinated scheme.
• Health Minister Mark Butler outlined an NDIS growth cap of 5–6% annually and a new $2 billion Thriving Kids program for children with mild to moderate developmental needs outside the scheme.