Part 2: Expense Measures

Table 1: Expense measures since the 2004-05 MYEFO^(a)
	2005-06 $m	2006-07 $m	2007-08 $m	2008-09 $m
AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FORESTRY
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Australian HomeGrown Campaign	-	-	-	-
Australian Quarantine and Inspection Services export inspection fees and charges – continuation of funding	34.3	35.4	36.5	37.7
Australian Seafood Industry Council	-	-	-	-
Avian influenza response measures	5.6	-	-	-
Biosecurity Australia – ongoing quarantine funding	9.8	9.8	9.8	9.8
Conservation of the Southern Bluefin Tuna Scientific Research Programme – continuation	-	-	-	-
Drought assistance – Exceptional Circumstances assistance	30.6	20.0	-	-
Drought assistance – interim income support	4.5	-	-	-
Eradication of red imported fire ants – additional funding	10.6	5.1	-	-
Illegal Foreign Fishers – improving compliance	8.8	7.7	7.9	8.1
Industry Partnerships Programme	5.0	5.0	5.0	-
International Food and Agriculture Service – exporting Australian agriculture to emerging markets	-	-	-	-
Ovine Johne's Disease – national approach to future management	0.6	-	-	-
Quarantine Border Security	63.0	67.7	67.7	67.7
Recreational Fishing Community Grants Programme	5.0	5.0	5.0	-
Regional Assistance Programme – continuation	-	-	-	-
Snowy and Murray Rivers' environmental flows – Joint Government Enterprise	-	-	-	-
Southern Ocean Surveillance – continuation	-	3.3	3.4	3.4
Portfolio total	177.7	159.1	135.3	126.6
ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S
Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Court security	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Attorney-General's Department
Addressing Indigenous Needs
– Fringe Benefits Tax supplementation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations – extension	-	-	-	-
– Native Title System – extension of funding	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.5
– Northern Territory Indigenous Interpreter Service – extension of funding	1.1	-	-	-
A new family law system – children's contact service	0.6	2.6	4.6	7.9
A new family law system – contact order programme	1.9	4.0	8.2	7.6
A new family law system – dispute resolution	0.6	4.6	4.0	4.1
A new family law system – dispute resolution for grandparents	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
A new family law system – Family Relationship Centres	5.4	32.7	62.6	91.5
A new family law system – Family Relationship Services	7.9	8.0	8.2	8.4
A new family law system – National Education Campaign	1.5	1.0	-	-
Attorney-General's Department – additional funding	6.0	6.0	6.0	5.7
Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity – establishment	2.5	2.0	2.0	2.1
Australian Tsunami Warning System – Indian and Pacific Oceans	2.0	1.8	1.4	1.3
Court security	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Free trade agreements – specialist advice	-	-	-	-
Identity security – pilot programmes	5.4	0.5	-	-
International Criminal Court – contribution	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9
National Pro Bono Resource Centre – continuation of funding	-	-	-	-
Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.3
Review of criminal penalties in Commonwealth legislation	-	-	-	-
Providing for Australia's Security
– Continuity of Government Plan – implementation and maintenance	1.8	1.4	1.3	1.4
– diplomatic guarding	-10.4	-10.5	-10.5	-10.6
– National Security Hotline	6.1	6.1	-	-
– regional counter-terrorism assistance – legal assistance	1.6	1.7	1.7	1.7
Australian Customs Service
Arming Australian Customs Service vessels	6.0	6.1	6.1	6.2
Customs activities in China	1.8	1.8	1.9	1.9
Imports – additional revenue compliance activities	6.5	6.6	6.7	6.8
Quarantine Border Security	-	-	62.5	62.5
Southern Ocean Surveillance – continuation	-	41.1	41.4	41.9
Providing for Australia's Security
– biometrics for border control – automated border processing	7.3	11.6	5.8	1.5
– regional counter-terrorism assistance – improved border control in the Sulu and Celebes Seas region	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Australian Federal Police
Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands	129.7	124.6	120.3	119.7
Providing for Australia's Security
– Australian Federal Police surge capacity expansion	5.8	4.7	4.8	4.9
– diplomatic guarding	28.7	29.9	29.6	30.3
– regional counter-terrorism assistance – biometric technology	5.3	2.3	-	-
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
Providing for Australia's Security
– Australian Security Intelligence Organisation central office building	-	-	1.2	2.4
– Australian Security Intelligence Organisation enhanced capability	11.2	11.3	11.7	11.6
– business liaison unit	-	-	-	-
– counter-proliferation intelligence enhancement	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3
– counter-terrorism intelligence cooperation and joint training centre	4.3	4.9	5.0	5.0
– enhanced border control systems	1.9	1.9	2.0	2.0
– linguistic capability	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8
Family Court of Australia
Court security	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
Federal Court of Australia
Addressing Indigenous Needs – Native Title System – extension of funding	-	-	-	-
Trade Practices Act 1974 – implementation of the Dawson Amendments	1.3	1.1	1.1	1.1
Federal Magistrates Court
Family law disputes – increased capacity	1.1	1.4	1.4	1.4
High Court of Australia
Court security	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
High Court of Australia – additional resourcing	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2
Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia
Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia – implementation of cost recovery review	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Proceeds of Crime legislation – continuation of funding for implementation	-	-	-	-
National Native Title Tribunal
Addressing Indigenous Needs – Native Title System – extension of funding	-1.2	-1.2	-1.2	-1.5
Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Drafting of legislation – increased capacity	1.2	1.7	2.5	2.6
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Proceeds of Crime legislation – continuation of funding for implementation	-	-	-	-
Providing for Australia's Security – counter-terrorism prosecutions	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5
Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner
Providing for Australia's Security – biometrics for border control – privacy advice and audit for biometrics	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Office of the Film and Literature Classification
Operation Auxin – additional funding	-	-	-	-
Portfolio total	259.8	326.2	407.0	436.4
COMMUNICATIONS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS
Australia Council
Australia Council – additional funding for major performing arts bodies	0.4	0.6	1.2	1.7
Symphony Orchestras – assistance for financial viability	11.1	4.4	3.8	4.3
Young and Emerging Artists Initiative – extension of funding	-	1.3	1.3	-
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation – improving ABC local radio coverage of Dubbo, Geelong and Wagga Wagga and their surrounding areas	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Australian Film Commission
Australian Film Commission – Screen Culture	2.3	2.3	2.3	-
Australian Film, Television and Radio School
Australian Film, Television and Radio School – multi-platform courses and a Screen Business Skills Centre	3.0	3.0	3.0	-
Australian Film, Television and Radio School – relocation	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Australian National Maritime Museum
Bark Endeavour	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8
Australian Sports Commission
Backing Australia's Sporting Ability – a More Active Australia – continuation	-	-	-	-
Elite sport – additional funding	5.0	11.3	12.4	12.6
EuroHub – European training base for Australian athletes	0.7	3.0	3.1	3.1
Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Addressing Indigenous Needs – Fringe Benefits Tax supplementation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations – extension	-	-	-	-
Ausfilm – additional funding	0.3	0.3	0.3	-
Ausfilm – continuation of funding	-	-	-	-
Backing Australia's Sporting Ability – a More Active Australia – continuation	-	-	-	-
Books Alive – extension of funding	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
Community heritage grants	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Festivals Australia – Australian Stories	0.5	0.5	0.5	-
Film Australia – Australian Stories	2.5	2.5	2.5	-
Kogarah Oval upgrade	2.8	2.9	-	-
Metro Broadband Blackspots Programme	10.0	20.0	20.0	-
National Recreation Safety Programme – continuation and extension of funding	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6
Slim Dusty Heritage Centre	0.5	-	-	-
Sporting and recreational organisations and facilities – contribution	-	-	-	-
Symphony Orchestras – assistance for financial viability	1.8	-	-	-
Special Broadcasting Service Corporation
SBS Independent – continuation of funding for the Special Production Fund	-	-	-	-
Special Broadcasting Service Corporation – broadcasting rights to sporting events	4.7	-	-	-
Portfolio total	49.0	55.6	53.8	25.3
CROSS PORTFOLIO
Various Agencies
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation 2007	47.9	87.3	71.0	0.1
Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement	27.7	26.5	26.2	26.5
Connection to FedLink	1.2	0.9	0.9	0.9
Efficiency dividend – increase in the rate from 1 per cent to 1.25 per cent	-38.9	-93.5	-149.8	-163.2
Tsunami – financial assistance	15.9	2.5	1.5	1.4
Providing for Australia's Security – Australian overseas diplomatic missions – improved security	8.5	12.0	8.1	9.5
Portfolio total	62.4	35.7	-42.2	-124.8
DEFENCE
Department of Defence
Australian Defence Medal – establishment	-	-	-	-
Capability and Technology Demonstrator Programme	-	-	-	-
Coastal surveillance – continuation	13.0	-	-	-
Defence – reduced administrative overheads	-	-70.0	-60.0	-12.0
Defence Health – creation of a new leadership position	-	-	-	-
Defence industry skills development	-	-	-	-
Former HMAS PLATYPUS, Neutral Bay – site remediation	-	-	-	-
Implementation of the Defence Integrated Distribution System in Darwin – equipment repair	-	-	-	-
Iraq – Australian Defence Force deployments to the Al Muthanna Province	177.0	7.2	2.0	-
Iraq – funding for stabilisation and reconstruction activities	173.8	16.6	-	-
People smuggling – package to mitigate threats, gaps and vulnerabilities	-	-	-	-
Providing for Australia's Security
– Continuity of Government Plan – implementation and maintenance	-	-	-	-
– counter-proliferation intelligence enhancement	2.7	4.0	4.0	4.1
– enhanced protective security	32.9	33.6	-	-
– improved intelligence coordination and analysis	-	-	-	-
– North-West Shelf surveillance	-	52.4	27.3	13.1
– upgrade of business and information systems	-	-	-	-
Portfolio total	399.5	43.7	-26.7	5.2
EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TRAINING
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Addressing Indigenous Needs – Cultural resource collection – digitisation	2.5	3.2	3.2	-
Department of Education, Science and Training
Addressing Indigenous Needs
– Fringe Benefits Tax supplementation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations – extension	-	-	-	-
– Remote Indigenous Students – tutorial support for students leaving their communities	1.8	2.9	2.9	1.1
Additional Places in Language, Literacy and Numeracy Programme	3.6	3.7	3.8	3.9
Australian National Training Authority – abolition	-2.7	-3.1	-3.1	-3.1
Australian network of industry career advisors	27.5	37.7	38.7	39.4
Commonwealth radioactive waste management facility	3.4	7.1	2.6	-
Continuation of the Australian Government Quality Teacher Programme	-13.6	-0.3	-0.3	-0.3
Debt Prevention Research and Development	-0.1	-0.4	-	-
Drought assistance – Exceptional Circumstances assistance	0.7	0.3	-	-
Implementation of Higher Education Reforms	2.2	2.0	2.5	2.6
Income support payments – maintain funding for compliance checks	-	-	-	-
Institute for Trade Skill Excellence	4.3	6.8	6.8	4.8
James Cook University – Additional Veterinary Science and Tropical Agriculture Places	1.7	3.1	4.2	5.0
Migration Programme – increase of up to 20,000 skilled places	15.3	20.6	30.5	35.9
Migration Programme – Trade Skills Training Visa – arrangement for regional Australia	0.3	1.1	2.2	2.7
New Apprentice poaching – adjusting incentive payments	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
New Apprentices – increased residential support	0.5	1.7	1.8	1.8
New Apprenticeship incentives – broadening eligibility	0.3	0.7	0.8	0.9
New Apprenticeship Sporting Operations Incentive – withdrawal	-0.3	-0.9	-1.1	-1.1
Our Universities – additional medical places at James Cook University	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Our Universities – additional funding for the Australian National University	5.5	8.4	-	-
Pre-vocational training in trades	4.4	4.4	5.5	5.6
School-based New Apprentices in the trades – increased opportunities	1.4	4.4	8.9	11.3
Student Financial Supplement Scheme – simplification of administrative arrangements	-12.7	-15.1	-6.0	0.3
Transition (School to Work) Programmes	-	-	-	-
University of Western Sydney – infrastructure projects	8.0	8.0	9.0	-
Working Age Payments – extension of waiting periods	0.2	-3.4	-5.2	-5.3
Welfare to Work
– expansion of vocational education and training to support participation	-	25.5	13.2	3.9
– increasing participation of parents	-	10.9	27.5	39.3
– increasing participation of people with a disability	-1.5	2.5	6.0	10.4
– increasing participation of the mature age	-	0.5	0.2	0.2
– more generous Newstart Allowance Income test	-	48.2	55.0	54.7
Portfolio total	53.0	180.9	209.8	214.4
EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Comcare
Asbestos Claims Management	-	22.8	23.6	23.3
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Addressing Indigenous Needs
– Aboriginal Employment Strategy – continuation of funding	5.2	4.3	4.4	3.1
– Community Development Employment Projects – reform	-	-	-	-
– Fringe Benefits Tax supplementation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations – extension	-	-	-	-
– Indigenous Economic Development Strategy	-	-	-	-
Asbestos Claims Management	20.8	0.9	1.1	1.0
Centrelink Personal Adviser services – rationalisation	-2.6	-5.3	-5.3	-5.3
Debt Prevention Research and Development	-0.7	-2.5	-	-
Development of a Migrant Vocational Profile Capacity in Australian Job Search	0.2	-	-	-
Employment Service Purchasing Arrangements	-62.1	-100.8	-129.8	-166.7
Income support payments – maintain funding for compliance checks	-	-	-	-
Migration Occupations in Demand List	1.0	1.1	1.1	1.1
Migration Programme – increase of up to 20,000 skilled places	0.5	0.5	12.5	32.8
Migration Programme – Two-Stage Skilled Designated Area Sponsored visa	-	..	..	..
Occupational Health and Safety Advisers for small business	3.5	3.5	-	-
Personal Support Programme – maintain funding	-	-	-	-
Targeted assistance programmes – maintain funding	-	-	-	-
Transition to Work – renewal of lapsing programme	-	-	-	-
Working Age Payments – extension of waiting periods	1.5	-30.6	-44.9	-46.2
Welfare to Work
– an improved compliance regime	21.1	65.0	78.9	76.2
– assistance for employers	7.0	14.7	15.3	13.0
– communication strategy	8.7	11.1	8.9	0.2
– Employment Preparation	-	16.7	20.8	10.3
– evaluation and monitoring	2.2	3.0	3.2	2.8
– improved information technology to support participation	32.8	33.4	27.3	21.1
– increase in the Mobility Allowance for certain recipients	-	11.6	14.2	16.8
– increasing participation of parents	26.5	90.7	163.0	2.2
– increasing participation of people with a disability	32.6	140.2	135.9	173.2
– increasing participation of the mature age	7.2	2.1	1.9	-5.5
– increasing participation of the very long term unemployed	4.7	100.0	117.1	138.1
– more generous Newstart Allowance Income test	2.3	187.3	290.4	305.1
Portfolio total	112.6	569.6	739.6	596.4
ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE
Bureau of Meteorology
Australian Tsunami Warning System – Indian and Pacific Oceans	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
Australian Tsunami Warning System – Indian and Pacific Oceans	2.9	4.2	6.5	7.6
Field Meteorological Offices – replacement	0.4	0.6	0.8	1.0
Department of the Environment and Heritage
Australia-Antarctic Airlink	6.8	10.7	10.9	11.0
Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities	4.8	22.1	22.6	25.2
Department of the Environment and Heritage – integration of the Australian Greenhouse Office	-1.0	-1.0	-	-
Green Stamp Programme	-0.2	-	0.2	-
Hydrogen Fuel Depots and Buses – scoping study	-	-	-	-
Launceston’s air quality	0.4	0.3	0.2	-
National Heritage Investment initiative	2.5	3.8	3.8	0.5
National Pollutant Inventory – continuation	-	-	-	-
National Recycling Telephone Hotline	-	-	-	-
Photovoltaic Rebate Programme – extension	-	-	-	-
Regional marine planning – extension	9.4	-	-	-
St Mary’s Cathedral and the Church of St Mary’s Star of the Sea – restoration	5.0	-	-	-
Used oil recycling – uptake of technologies	-	-	-	-
Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Scheme	0.6	0.4	0.7	0.9
Wildlife programme and biodiversity conservation responsibilities	-	-	-	-
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Townsville Aquarium Reef Headquarters – continuation	-	-	-	-
Portfolio total	32.0	41.5	46.0	46.6
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
Department of Family and Community Services
Addressing Indigenous Needs
– Fringe Benefits Tax supplementation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations – extension	-	-	-	-
– Healthy Indigenous Housing – continuation	24.9	25.4	26.0	26.6
A new family law system – children’s contact service	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
A new family law system – contact order programme	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
A new family law system – Family Relationship Centres	1.6	1.7	1.7	1.6
A new family law system – Family Relationship Services	12.2	23.3	31.4	37.7
A new family law system – National Education Campaign	1.9	1.2	-	-
Accommodation bonds – exemption from assets tests	9.9	10.8	12.9	15.1
Age Pension – detection and prevention of incorrect payments arising from overseas income	1.0	-26.8	-23.1	-13.2
Age Pension and Service Pension Registers – improved integrity	-27.0	-2.3	-2.4	-2.5
Bush-fires – ex gratia payments to victims on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia	-	-	-	-
Carer Allowance – backdating provisions	0.8	-34.7	-36.4	-37.3
Carer Allowance (child) – changes to the Lists of Recognised Disabilities	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7
Carers – payment of one-off carer bonus	3.2	-	-	-
Commonwealth Seniors Health Card concessions – withdraw offer to state and territory governments	-83.7	-83.7	-83.7	-83.7
Community organisations – one-off grants	-	-	-	-
Debt Prevention Research and Development	5.0	0.6	-	-
Family Assistance – a negotiated payment option to reduce overpayments	1.5	1.5	1.4	1.5
Family Assistance – assistance to families at risk of overpayment	5.2	3.2	-	-
Family Assistance – automatically updating income estimates	3.8	10.2	2.9	1.7
Family Assistance – improving debt recovery	2.8	5.0	1.7	1.8
Family Assistance – maintenance income credit	4.8	16.2	15.3	15.7
Family Assistance – using reconciliation top-up payments and tax refunds to offset outstanding family assistance debts	2.8	1.1	0.4	0.4
Family Tax Benefit Part B Supplement	253.5	265.8	271.5	277.8
Great Southern Rail – reimbursement of concessionary fares	-	-	-	-
Income support payments – maintain funding for compliance checks	-	-	-	-
Increase in maximum rate Family Tax Benefit Part A income threshold	0.9	249.6	249.2	249.4
Maternity Payment – extending the age limit on adopted children	2.2	1.2	1.2	1.5
Mentor Marketplace Programme – extension	2.7	3.0	2.9	3.3
Migration Programme – increase of up to 20,000 skilled places	12.6	38.8	67.2	98.2
Migration Programme – Two-Stage Skilled Designated Area Sponsored visa	-	-1.3	-7.7	-17.9
More Help for Families – departmental funding	31.1	28.8	28.2	28.2
National Homelessness Strategy – extension	2.4	2.4	2.5	2.7
National Research Strategy to help prevent problem gambling – continuation	-	-	-	-
State Seniors Card Holders – withdraw the National Reciprocal Transport Concessions offer	-6.2	-6.4	-6.4	-6.4
Targeted assistance programmes – maintain funding	-	-	-	-
Transition to Independent Living Allowance – continuation	-	-	-	-
Visa holders – ex gratia payments to Return Pending Visa applicants	-	-	-	-
Women’s Leadership and Development Programme	4.1	3.6	3.6	3.6
Women’s Safety Agenda	15.2	15.9	15.5	16.1
Working Age Payments – extension of waiting periods	0.2	-9.0	-12.0	-12.3
Welfare to Work
– enhance child care arrangements to support work participation	25.7	41.6	80.5	118.7
– increasing participation of parents	-	2.5	7.1	11.3
– increasing participation of people with a disability	-	11.0	18.3	26.0
Portfolio total	316.2	601.6	671.2	767.1
FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
Australian Electoral Commission
Australian Electoral Commission’s electoral and election management systems – replacement	1.7	0.6	-1.2	-1.3
Department of Finance and Administration
Asbestos Claims Management	-1.0	-0.5	-	-
ASC Pty Limited – scoping study into possible sale	2.2	-	-	-
Asset sales function – continuation of resourcing	1.0	-	-	-
Australian Government Information Management Office – incorporation into the Department of Finance and Administration	-1.2	-1.2	-1.2	-1.2
Department of Finance and Administration – additional funding	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Future Fund Management Agency
Future Fund – implementation and administration	6.3	7.9	7.9	8.1
Portfolio total	9.4	7.3	6.0	6.2
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE
Australian Agency for International Development
Australian Tsunami Warning System – Indian and Pacific Oceans	-	-	-	-
Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development	-	-	-	-
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative	-	-	-	-
Iraq – reconstruction assistance	22.5	22.5	-	-
Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands	72.2	73.8	69.8	66.4
Tsunami – Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Reconstruction and Development	115.0	125.0	125.0	125.0
Tsunami – Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Reconstruction and Development – administration costs	5.6	-	-	-
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
People smuggling – package to mitigate threats, gaps and vulnerabilities	..	0.5	0.6	0.6
Providing for Australia’s Security
– Continuity of Government Plan – implementation and maintenance	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.4
– counter-proliferation intelligence enhancement	2.2	4.4	6.3	6.5
– regional counter-terrorism assistance – building regional capabilities	..	-0.4	4.2	4.9
Australian Trade Commission
Trade facilitation – additional export facilitators for the United States market	3.0	3.0	-	-
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Indonesia and Sri Lanka debt moratorium	*	*	*	*
Nauru – maintenance of a temporary Consulate-General	0.8	-	-	-
Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands	3.8	3.9	4.0	3.4
Travellers’ Emergency Loan Scheme	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Providing for Australia’s Security – biometrics for border control – progressive introduction of ePassports	11.2	16.1	17.4	19.0
Portfolio total	236.7	249.4	227.9	226.4
HEALTH AND AGEING
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Energy Programme – maintain funding	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
Department of Health and Ageing
Addressing Indigenous Needs
– Combating Petrol Sniffing	2.3	2.4	2.4	2.5
– Fringe Benefits Tax supplementation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations – extension	-	-	-	-
– Hearing Services Programme – extend eligibility	2.0	2.6	2.7	2.8
– Indigenous health – Healthy for Life	11.2	21.3	30.4	39.4
– National Illicit Drugs Strategy – capacity building in Indigenous communities	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
– Primary Health Care Access Programme – additional funding	7.0	9.0	11.0	13.0
Accommodation bonds – exemption from assets tests	1.3	1.0	1.0	1.1
Additional Practice Nurses for Rural Australia and other areas of need – continue funding	-1.4	-1.4	-1.4	-1.4
Aged care – consultation on longer-term reform	1.3	-	-	-
Aged care homes’ funding claims – maintain funding for greater scrutiny	-	-	-	-
Asthma Management Programme – maintain funding	-	-	-	-
Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care Initiative – continue funding	-	-	-	-
Brain and Mind Research Institute – grant of assistance	-	-	-	-
Carer Information and Support Programme – continue funding	-	-	-	-
Centre for Medical Bionics and Hearing Science – further contribution	-	-	-	-
Cervical screening incentives for general practitioners – maintain funding	-	-	-	-
Community Pharmacy Agreement	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Dementia – Extended Aged Care at Home places	15.6	44.0	74.4	91.1
Dementia – training for carers	4.1	6.8	7.0	7.2
Dementia Education and Support Programme – continue funding	-	-	-	-
Drought assistance – Exceptional Circumstances assistance	1.0	0.4	-	-
Ensuring Quality Care for Older Australians – maintain funding	-	-	-	-
Fernlea House palliative care hospice	-	-	-	-
Gippsland Lakes Community Health – contribution	0.3	0.3	-	-
GST-free accommodation charges for residents of serviced apartments in retirement villages — assessments	5.0	4.8	4.9	5.2
Home Medicine Reviews – maintain funding of Medicare item for general practitioner participation	-	-	-	-
Hospital Safety Initiative – maintain funding	-5.5	-	-	-
Human Genetics Advisory Committee – establishment	1.2	1.9	2.5	2.0
Increase in maximum rate Family Tax Benefit Part A income threshold	-	101.3	109.4	116.4
Increasing Care and Diversity for Older Australians – continue funding	-	-	-	-
Independent National Influenza Centre	13.7	3.0	3.3	3.2
Macular Degeneration Foundation – grant	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Medicare – increase in thresholds for Medicare Safety Net	-50.6	-135.3	-149.8	-160.8
Migration Programme – increase of up to 20,000 skilled places	2.8	8.7	28.5	62.9
Migration Programme – Two-Stage Skilled Designated Area Sponsored visa	-	-2.8	-11.4	-21.3
National Illicit Drugs Strategy – additional funding for the National Illicit Drugs Campaign	0.9	-	-	-
National Illicit Drugs Strategy – Australian National Council on Drugs – additional funding	0.3	0.3	0.3	-
National Illicit Drugs Strategy – National Drug and Alcohol Magazine	-	-	-	-
National Illicit Drugs Strategy – Non-Government Organisation Treatment Grants Programme – additional funding	-	6.0	6.0	-
National Illicit Drugs Strategy – termination of the retractable needles and syringes technology initiative	-12.9	-13.2	-12.4	-12.7
National Immunisation Programme – childhood varicella vaccines	15.0	19.4	19.7	19.7
National Immunisation Programme – replacement of oral polio vaccine with inactivated polio vaccine	11.5	16.9	16.6	16.2
National Immunisation Programme Support Activities	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.3
National Integrated Diabetes Programme – maintain funding	-	-	-	-
National Rural and Remote Health Support Programme – continue funding	-1.1	-1.1	-1.1	-
National Tobacco Youth Campaign	3.8	7.8	6.8	6.6
Office of the Gene Technology Regulator – continue funding	7.9	8.0	8.0	8.2
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee – cost recovery arrangements	0.6	1.5	0.6	0.6
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee – immunisation advisory role	1.7	2.0	2.0	2.0
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme – deletion of calcium tablet preparations	-4.1	-8.9	-9.0	-9.4
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme – Increase concessional and general safety net thresholds	-1.4	-20.0	-42.8	-67.1
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme – information campaign to improve community understanding of generic medicines	-	-	-	-
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme – mandating price lists in pharmacies	-	-	-	-
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme – price reduction for new brand listings	-129.1	-251.6	-276.8	-302.1
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme – reinforcing safety net arrangements	-3.7	-20.1	-20.6	-21.1
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Community Awareness Campaign – cessation	-0.1	-7.0	-7.1	-7.3
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme drugs listings – cost effectiveness reviews	1.2	0.9	0.3	-
Plasma fractionation arrangements – review	2.1	0.7	-	-
Quality Use of Medicines programme	-5.0	-4.5	-3.7	-3.2
Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Energy Programme – maintain funding	-0.2	-0.2	-0.2	-0.2
Regulation of research involving embryos and prohibition of human cloning – maintain funding	-	-	-	-
Round the Clock Medicare – After-hours Primary Care Programme	-	-	-	-
Round the Clock Medicare – grants for after-hours GP services	5.2	10.8	11.7	11.9
Rural Nursing Scholarship Programme	2.5	2.5	2.6	-
Senior Australians – increasing rural and regional respite services	1.4	2.6	2.6	2.7
Senior Australians – overnight cottage respite	8.8	17.0	17.3	17.8
Senior Australians – residential respite funding increase	5.9	8.4	13.5	13.9
Senior Australians – respite to assist employed carers	13.5	26.7	27.3	28.0
Strengthening Cancer Care – bowel cancer screening	2.6	14.6	16.4	-2.0
Strengthening Cancer Care – Breast Cancer Network Australia	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Strengthening Cancer Care – cancer research	4.8	4.2	4.2	4.3
Strengthening Cancer Care – clinical trials	5.8	5.2	5.3	5.4
Strengthening Cancer Care – developing training courses for cancer nurses	2.2	0.6	0.6	0.7
Strengthening Cancer Care – evaluation of initiatives	-	-	0.9	0.3
Strengthening Cancer Care – mentoring for regional hospitals and cancer professionals	3.6	3.4	3.5	3.6
Strengthening Cancer Care – National Research Centre for Asbestos Related Diseases	0.3	1.7	1.7	1.8
Strengthening Cancer Care – palliative care grants programme	5.7	5.7	5.9	5.9
Strengthening Cancer Care – professional development for cancer professionals	3.3	-	-	-
Strengthening Cancer Care – quitting smoking during pregnancy	2.1	1.1	1.1	-
Strengthening Cancer Care – skin cancer national awareness campaign	0.6	4.9	-	-
Strengthening Cancer Care – Sydney Children's Hospital Magnetic Resonance Imaging unit – Medicare Benefits Schedule eligibility	1.1	1.2	1.3	1.4
Treatment of breast cancer – continued funding for Herceptin	-	-	-	-
Women's Safety Agenda	1.0	2.8	3.8	4.9
National Blood Authority
National Blood Authority – additional funding	2.8	2.7	2.7	2.2
Plasma fractionation arrangements – review	0.1	..	-	-
Private Health Insurance Ombudsman
Private Health Insurance – increased funding for the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman through an increase in the Complaints Levy	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Portfolio total	-24.1	-75.0	-72.0	-99.7
HUMAN SERVICES
Department of Human Services
Welfare to Work
– Comprehensive Work Capacity Assessments	0.8	105.3	107.3	102.7
– Pre-vocational Assistance Participation Account	0.2	26.8	28.4