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1. Support Households To Be Better-off

Zali's Record

  • Wiped $3 billion in student debt for over 3 million Australians: delivering around $1,200 in savings for the average graduate
  • Support for household electrification: helping more than 110,000 households with energy upgrades like solar, batteries, insultation and efficient appliances
  • Stopped taxation of unrealised gains on superannuation ensuring that Warringah retain access to the funding they need to grow, and people don’t have pay tax on paper profits
  • More buses for Warringah to address ongoing transport congestion and delays

Local Engagement

Zali’s Commitment to you

Parliamentary Action

  • Cost of living relief (August 2024): Zali highlights the cost of living concerns of Warringah (Watch here)
  • Fix Warringah’s roads (Feb 2025): Zali highlights the key transport issues facing Warringah (Watch here)

Media Coverage

2. Champion Strong Businesses

Zali is committed to policies that reduce barriers, provide financial relief, and create an environment where all small, medium and large businesses can thrive.

Zali’s Record

  • Standing up for small business by securing important protections from new industrial reform laws
  • Supported tax relief for small business by securing targeted relief for small and medium enterprises
  • Hosted a small business webinar with COSBOA, BCA and Employment Hero to discuss the challenges and opportunities for small businesses in the current economic environment
  • Pushed to change the definition of “small business” from 15 to 25 employees

Zali’s Commitment to You

  • Reduce burden off small business through tax reform, increasing the instant asset write-off, easing insurance costs, streamline industrial relations for small business
  • Encourage innovation by incentivising research and development and supporting stronger private-public partnerships
  • Optimise fit-for-purpose migration policies that ensure skilled workers match business need.

Parliamentary Action

  • Support for small business (Feb 2025) – Zali advocated for an increased instant asset write off (Watch here)
  • Highlighting the desperate need for more business support during COVID-19 (Watch here)
  • Small business support (September 2023) – Zali asked the Treasurer whether the government will consider delaying ATO reporting requirements to assist small business through high inflationary period? (Watch here)

Media Coverage

3. Equitable Opportunities

A strong economy values and respects a diversity of skills, talents and experience. We must embrace diversity, so our communities and business thrive.

Refreshing policy settings to reform gender equality and increase diversity in the workplace. We need to continue to prioritise improving workplace gender equality and diversity to generate the productivity our economy requires. Broader social reforms need to be considered that would provide greater security for women and children, reducing the number of older women falling into homelessness.

Zali’s Record

  • Implementation of the Respect@Work recommendation securing the safety of Australian workplaces.

  • Held the government to account on the progress for victims of domestic and family violence.

  • Extended single parent support payments cut-off to 14 years old to assist single parents on income support payments.

  • Bringing down the cost of childcare through advocating for policies that support working families.

  • Served on the Joint Select Committee for Australia's Family Law System Reform from 2019 to 2022.

Zali’s Commitment to You

  • Equitable Parental Leave: Remove gender bias by incentivising uptake of parental leave by men.

  • Equitable Superannuation: Amend superannuation legislation to remove discrimination during parental leave.

  • Better Access to Childcare: Increase accessibility of childcare centres in ‘childcare deserts’.

Parliamentary Action

  • Importance of widespread availability of childcare (Fed 2025): Zali spoke about assisting young families juggling the commitments of working while parenting. (Watch Here)

  • Importance on gender equality in the workplace (Nov 2024): Zali spoke about the importance of organisation’s setting gender equality targets. (Watch Here)

Media Coverage

4. Improve Healthcare and Wellbeing

Australians need a reliable and affordable healthcare system. We must continue to protect access to essential services and support for those most in need.

Zali’s Record

Zali’s Commitment to You

  • Effective healthcare: An effective and efficient NDIS, aged-care and healthcare sector
  • Equity in the provision of healthcare: Ensure equitable access to quality healthcare, education and mental health services.

Local Engagement

  • Seniors' Webinar: Helping seniors and their families navigate the aged care system
  • Seniors Gudie: A resource the electorate office created to help constituents better understand government services
  • Healthcare Webinar
  • NDIS Webinar: Live webinar with Bill Shorten for constituents to ask NDIS questions

5. Safe at Home, in our Communities, and Online

Zali continues to remain a strong advocate for protecting Australians from harm—whether it’s domestic violence, online scams, or the pervasive influence of gambling and alcohol advertising. This means she will continue to ensure our laws and systems keep pace with modern risks and provide meaningful protection for all.

Zali’s Record

  • Stronger consumer protections legislated to protect people against the scourge of scams
  • Advocated for stronger gambling and alcohol marketing restrictions, particularly around sport
  • Supported whistleblower protections and pushed for a safer Parliament House culture
  • Advocated for a strong online duty of care to build safer online spaces and stronger regulation of harmful online content.

Zali’s Commitment to You

  • Reduce domestic violence by funding crisis services and early-intervention initiatives
  • Ban gambling advertising and limit online alcohol sales
  • Protect online safety by tackling scams, embedding stronger digital privacy laws and holding online platforms to account with a digital duty of care

Parliamentary Action

Media Coverage