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Budget Related Paper
"Promises Kept for a Stronger Australia"
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Table 1: Summary of Promises Kept
| 1999-00 $m |
2000-01 $m |
2001-02 $m |
2002-03 $m |
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| Health and Aged Care -- Expenses | ||||
| Enhanced respite care services | 20.0 | 20.4 | 20.7 | 21.1 |
| Pre 1 October 1997 Nursing Home Residents | 4.9 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.5 |
| Expanded Medicare easyclaim facilities | 1.6 | 6.2 | 6.7 | 4.7 |
| Developing a national strategic approach to improving asthma management | 1.9 |
3.6 |
3.7 |
- |
| Strengthening support for women with breast cancer | 0.8 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Infrastructure support for health and medical research institutes | 5.0 |
15.0 |
- |
- |
| Fighting suicide | 8.0 | 10.2 | 10.4 | 10.6 |
| National Illicit Drug Strategy -- additional funding for drug treatment | 2.5 |
2.5 |
2.6 |
2.6 |
| Improved living conditions in remote communities | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.3 |
| Bush Crisis Line upgraded | - | - | - | - |
| Simplifying aged care planning for rural and remote areas | 1.2 |
1.9 |
1.2 |
1.0 |
| Fly-in fly-out female general practitioner services to meet the needs of rural women | 2.0 |
2.0 |
2.1 |
2.1 |
| Further training for remote area nurses | - | - | - | - |
| Retention payments for general practitioners in rural and remote areas | 10.5 |
10.7 |
10.9 |
11.0 |
| 30 new Regional Health Service Centres | 5.9 | 11.8 | 11.7 | 11.4 |
| 100 extra aged care beds in Regional Health Service Centres | - |
0.3 |
0.6 |
1.1 |
| Establishing regional medical schools | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.2 | 5.3 |
| National Institute of Clinical Studies | - | - | - | - |
| Additional places for the James Cook University Medical School | - |
1.2 |
2.2 |
3.0 |
| Tough on Drugs in Sport | 2.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| Funding for the Australian Sports Commission | 1.9 | 50.9 | 46.1 | 49.1 |
| Total Expenses -- Health and Aged Care | 77.5 | 152.0 | 134.8 | 133.9 |
| Economic Growth and Job Creation -- Expenses | ||||
| Establish Cooma Call and Technology Centre | 1.7 | - | - | - |
| Support for 1999 as Online Australia Year | - | - | - | - |
| Australian Broadcasting Authority -- funding for planning requirements related to digital broadcasting (MYEFO measure) | - |
- |
- |
- |
| Regional telecommunications infrastructure fund | - | - | - | - |
| Commonwealth Technology Park -- Melbourne Docklands | - |
- |
- |
- |
| Extension of Young Offender Pilot Programme | 0.5 | 0.5 | .. | .. |
| Improvement of School Students' Literacy and Numeracy Skills | 29.9 |
31.1 |
23.0 |
- |
| Literacy and Numeracy in the Middle Years of Schooling | 11.2 |
11.7 |
11.9 |
12.2 |
| Extension of Commonwealth Funding for the National Asian Languages and Studies in Australian Schools Strategy | 30.0 |
30.0 |
30.0 |
- |
| Quality Teacher Programme | 15.2 | 31.0 | 31.4 | 0.1 |
| Increased Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme Boarding Allowances | 3.9 |
4.2 |
4.7 |
5.1 |
| Maintenance of Higher Education Research Infrastructure Funding | 36.8 |
37.4 |
19.0 |
- |
| Funding Science Lectureships | 5.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | - |
| Developing an enterprise culture -- women in small business | 0.4 |
- |
- |
- |
| Additional funding to Catholic Education Systems (MYEFO measure) | 98.3 |
103.8 |
106.6 |
- |
| Extra student places for James Cook University (MYEFO measure) | 4.6 |
5.4 |
5.6 |
- |
| Short-term Emergency Assistance for School-term Hostels (MYEFO measure) | - |
- |
- |
- |
| Strategic Partnerships -- Industry Research and Training Scheme (MYEFO measure) | 12.4 |
23.4 |
24.0 |
- |
| Improve job opportunities by establishing a Return to Work programme | 5.0 |
5.9 |
6.1 |
7.2 |
| Extension of Work for the Dole programme to Year 12 school leavers | 24.7 |
24.9 |
24.9 |
24.8 |
| Workplace Reform -- Secret Ballots | 0.8 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| Workplace Reform -- Plain English Legislation | 0.4 | - | - | - |
| Workplace Reform -- improvement to the operations of the Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity for Women) Act 1986 | 0.2 |
0.3 |
0.2 |
- |
| Developing an enterprise culture | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.2 | - |
| Extension of Country of Origin Awareness Campaign | 1.2 | - | - | - |
| Support domestic tourism campaign | 6.0 | - | - | - |
| Competition Reform in Energy Markets | - | - | - | - |
| Extension of the Shipbuilding Production Bounty | 13.7 | 12.4 | 1.5 | 0.7 |
| Introduce Shipbuilding Innovation Scheme | 9.1 | 9.8 | 10.4 | 11.2 |
| Reallocation in R&D START funding | -9.1 | -9.8 | -10.4 | -11.2 |
| Economic Growth and Job Creation -- Expenses (continued) | ||||
| Establish Printing Industry Competitiveness Scheme | 6.5 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.8 |
| Boosting Australia's Innovation and Science Culture | 1.5 | 0.8 | - | - |
| Continuation of funding for the Pooled Development Funds Programme | 0.4 |
0.4 |
0.4 |
0.4 |
| Establish a National Strategy for Biotechnology | 9.8 | 7.8 | - | - |
| Investment Ready Programme | - | - | - | - |
| Venture Awareness | - | - | - | - |
| Institute of Molecular Bioscience | - | - | - | - |
| Marine Science Centre | - | - | - | - |
| Greenhouse Challenge | - | - | - | - |
| Corporate Law Economic Reform Programme | 2.8 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 0.9 |
| Tax Reform Package | 103.7 | 132.0 | 66.5 | 64.3 |
| Additional funding for taxation reform | 3.1 | 2.1 | 1.1 | - |
| Business taxation reform | 23.8 | - | - | - |
| Fringe Benefits Tax reform | 9.1 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 0.2 |
| Savings Bonus for Older Australians | 4.3 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Binding Oral Advice by the Australian Taxation Office | 2.0 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
| Pay As You Go and New Withholding Arrangements | 35.7 | 46.7 | 41.2 | 46.4 |
| Tax Reform price exploitation | 11.6 | 9.5 | 6.9 | - |
| Australian Business Number | 44.6 | 32.9 | 24.8 | 26.6 |
| Implementation of Tax Reform Package | 3.6 | 3.1 | .. | .. |
| Total Expenses (excl. MYEFO outlays) -- Economic Growth and Job Creation | 451.1 |
453.2 |
321.5 |
199.2 |
| Total MYEFO outlays -- Economic Growth and Job Creation | 115.3 |
132.6 |
136.2 |
- |
| Economic Growth and Job Creation -- Capital | ||||
| Tax Reform Package | 10.7 | 15.3 | 7.7 | 7.5 |
| Equity injection for A New Tax System initiatives | 57.9 | 44.7 | 27.2 | 20.9 |
| Business taxation reform | 4.5 | - | - | - |
| Total Capital -- Economic Growth and Job Creation | 73.1 |
60.0 |
34.9 |
28.4 |
| Economic Growth and Job Creation -- Revenue | ||||
| Continuation of funding for the Pooled Development Funds Programme | - |
-2.0 |
-3.0 |
-5.0 |
| Total Revenue -- Economic Growth and Job Creation | - |
2.0 |
-3.0 |
-5.0 |
| Rural and Regional Australia and the Environment -- Expenses | ||||
| Regional Forest Agreements | 4.0 | - | - | - |
| Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative | 3.0 | 6.2 | 7.9 | 8.1 |
| Supermarket to Asia Strategy | 4.4 | 5.1 | 5.0 | - |
| Ovine Johnes Disease Control and Evaluation Programme | 1.5 |
0.8 |
0.4 |
0.1 |
| Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.1 | - |
| Cost-sharing for emergency animal disease response | - | - | - | - |
| Food and Fibre Supply Chain Programme | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.1 | - |
| Southern Shark Fishery Industry Development | - | - | - | - |
| Detering illegal fishing in Australia's subantarctic waters | 4.0 |
4.0 |
4.1 |
4.2 |
| Sustainable Fisheries Network | - | - | - | - |
| National Recreational Fishing Survey | - | - | - | - |
| Extend Access to Justice in rural and regional Australia with five new community legal services | 1.2 |
1.2 |
1.2 |
- |
| Eliminating TV Black Spots | - | - | - | - |
| Continuation of the Commonwealth Regional Arts Fund | 2.5 |
2.5 |
- |
- |
| Increased support for rural and regional New Apprenticeship incentive | 7.8 |
9.9 |
11.0 |
12.7 |
| Cultural Heritage Projects Programme | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.3 | - |
| Living Cities Programme | 10.2 | 20.5 | 20.0 | - |
| Improved Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Surveillance | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | - |
| Shipping transport support for Australian Antarctic Programme | - |
- |
- |
- |
| Protecting Australia's forests | 1.8 | - | - | - |
| Oceans Policy implementation | 10.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | - |
| Telstra Social Bonus -- additional funding for the Natural Heritage Trust (MYEFO measure) | - |
- |
250.0 |
- |
| Protecting Sydney Harbour Foreshores | - | - | - | - |
| Establish rural call centres | 4.6 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.7 |
| Upgrade Tasmanian sporting facilities | - | - | - | - |
| Enhancement of Regional Tourism Programme | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Regional Minerals Programme -- Northwest Tasmania | 1.0 |
4.0 |
- |
- |
| Restoration of Urangan Pier | 0.3 | - | - | - |
| Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme -- response to review | 20.4 |
20.5 |
21.1 |
21.7 |
| Regional flood mitigation programme | 6.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | - |
| National Highway and Roads of National Importance | 19.0 | 68.0 | 78.0 | 30.0 |
| Extend Road Safety Black Spot Programme | - | 40.8 | 41.7 | - |
| Bridge Upgrading Programme | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | - |
| Upgrade of Rockhampton Airport Runway | 1.0 | 6.0 | - | - |
| Telstra Social Bonus -- Rural Transaction Centres (MYEFO measure) | 30.0 |
30.0 |
9.0 |
- |
| Rural and Regional Australia and the Environment -- Expenses (continued) | ||||
| Additional Funding for Regional War Memorials Project | 0.4 |
0.4 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
| Total Expenses (excl. MYEFO outlays) -- Rural and Regional Australia and the Environment | 121.3 |
233.0 |
233.8 |
86.6 |
| Total MYEFO outlays -- Rural and Regional Australia and the Environment | 30.0 |
30.0 |
259.0 |
- |
| Families and the Community -- Expenses | ||||
| Additional counselling and mediation dispute resolution services | 3.0 |
6.9 |
6.4 |
- |
| Expand supervised children's contact services by 25 additional services | 3.8 |
3.9 |
3.9 |
4.0 |
| Establish Family Law advice telecommunication services | 0.6 |
1.2 |
1.3 |
- |
| Enhancement of the National School Drug Education Strategy | 1.0 |
2.1 |
3.7 |
3.7 |
| Additional funding for Marriage and Relationship Education | 2.0 |
2.0 |
2.0 |
- |
| Increase Men's access to Family Relationship Support Services | 3.0 |
3.0 |
3.0 |
- |
| Improve access to Centrelink through Electronic Service Delivery | 4.4 |
0.2 |
0.2 |
0.1 |
| Expand respite support for carers of young people with disabilities | 5.0 |
5.1 |
5.1 |
5.2 |
| Optical surveillance to assist in detecting cases of serious social security fraud (MYEFO measure) | -16.5 |
-18.3 |
-18.8 |
- |
| Develop measures of relative disadvantage to target resources for indigenous Australians | 3.2 |
2.5 |
- |
- |
| Additional funding to extend Living in Harmony campaign | 2.5 |
2.5 |
- |
- |
| Adult migrant English programmes and settlement programmes | - |
- |
- |
- |
| Additional funding for partnerships against domestic violence | 3.0 |
5.3 |
8.3 |
8.3 |
| Production of Documentary `Australians at War' | 3.0 | 2.0 | - | - |
| Establish ANZAC Commemorative Site at Gallipoli, Turkey | 1.2 |
- |
- |
- |
| Improve Claims Management Process | 1.1 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Total Expenses (excl. MYEFO outlays) -- Families and the Community | 36.8 |
38.8 |
35.8 |
23.2 |
| Total MYEFO Outlays -- Families and the Community | -16.5 | -18.3 | -18.8 | - |
| Families and the Community -- Capital | ||||
| ANZAC Hall at the Australian War Memorial | - | - | - | - |
| Construction of a Memorial to Bomber Command | - | - | - | - |
| Total Capital -- Families and the Community | - | - | - | - |
| Australia's Cultural Identity -- Expenses | ||||
| Further support for Inveresk Museum and Art Gallery | 1.5 | - | - | - |
| Continuation of the Young and Emerging Artists Fund | 1.3 |
1.3 |
- |
- |
| Extend funding for Major Festivals Fund | 0.8 | 0.8 | - | - |
| Assist LOUDER Youth Festival | 1.5 | - | - | - |
| Maintenance of the funding base of the Cultural Development Programme | 5.0 |
4.1 |
- |
- |
| Extension of cultural touring programmes | 3.0 | 3.0 | - | - |
| Contemporary Music Development | 3.0 | 3.4 | - | - |
| Grant to John Saunders Foundation (MYEFO measure) | - | - | - | - |
| Referendum on whether Australia becomes a Republic | 63.4 | 0.3 | - | - |
| Contribute to construction of Maitland Federation Centre | - |
- |
- |
- |
| Tamar River Festival | - | - | - | - |
| Inveresk Woodchopping Stadium | - | - | - | - |
| Strategy for tourism development, Burnie, Tasmania | - | - | - | - |
| Grant to Gum San Heritage Museum, Ararat, Victoria | - | - | - | - |
| Total Expenses -- Australia's Cultural Identity | 79.5 | 12.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| International Relations and Security -- Expenses | ||||
| Establish a National Crime Information System (CrimTrac) | 20.0 |
20.0 |
10.0 |
- |
| Building safer communities -- develop new approaches to crime prevention | 3.5 |
5.6 |
6.1 |
6.2 |
| Tough on drugs -- increased search capacity and purchase of x-ray technology to enhance capacity for drug detection at the nation's borders | 3.3 |
7.2 |
7.8 |
7.7 |
| Tough on drugs -- four mobile strike teams | 5.2 | 6.3 | 6.4 | 6.4 |
| Defence New Priorities | - | - | - | - |
| Opening of Australian Embassy in Zagreb | 1.0 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| Total Expenses -- International Relations and Security | 33.0 |
41.3 |
32.5 |
22.5 |
| International Relations and Security -- Capital | ||||
| Tough on drugs -- increased search capacity and purchase of x-ray technology to enhance capacity for drug detection at the nation's borders | 7.0 |
2.4 |
- |
- |
| Opening of Australian Embassy in Zagreb | 2.2 | .. | .. | 0.2 |
| Total Capital -- International Relations and Security | 9.2 |
2.4 |
0.0 |
0.2 |
| Total Promises Kept - Expenses (excluding MYEFO outlays) | 799.2 |
931.2 |
758.4 |
465.4 |
| Total Promises Kept - MYEFO outlays | 128.8 | 144.3 | 376.4 | - |
| Total Promises Kept - Capital | 82.3 | 62.4 | 34.9 | 28.6 |
| Total Promises Kept - Revenue | - | -2.0 | -3.0 | -5.0 |