Specific Purpose Payments (SPPs)

Tables 36 and 37 provide information on Australian Government SPPs ‘to’ and ‘through’ the States, and direct to local government, respectively.

Table 36 presents SPPs on a functional basis, and includes SPPs for current and capital purposes. Payments are aggregated according to like purposes and are further divided into those paid to the States and those paid through the States to be passed on to local government and other bodies. Payments through the States are indicated in the table with an asterisk and separate totals for payments to the States and payments through the States are presented in the summary at the end of the table.

Australian Government advances (loans) to the States, including new advances, interest on advances and repayments by the States are also detailed in Table 36. The majority of these advances were funded from borrowing made on behalf of the States under previous Australian Loan Council arrangements.

Table 37 presents information on Australian Government SPPs paid direct to local government authorities for both current and capital purposes.

Tables 36 and 37 provide information prepared on an accrual basis.

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