Part 2: Expense Measures
Table 2: Expense measures since the 2006-07 MYEFO(a)
|
2007-08 $m |
2008-09 $m |
2009-10 $m |
2010-11 $m |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FORESTRY | ||||
| Biosecurity Australia | ||||
| Import risk analysis – improving quarantine processes | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry | ||||
| Adelaide Showground redevelopment – contribution | - | - | - | - |
| Agriculture – Advancing Australia | ||||
| – Advancing Agricultural Industries | 5.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| – FarmBis | -2.0 | 9.5 | 9.3 | 9.4 |
| – FarmHelp | 20.9 | 24.8 | 24.2 | 22.5 |
| – International Agricultural Cooperation | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.4 |
| – Rural Financial Counselling Service | 0.2 | 14.3 | 14.6 | 14.9 |
| Australia-China Free Trade Agreement – continuation of negotiations | 0.4 | 0.4 | - | - |
| Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement – commencement of negotiations | 0.4 | 0.4 | - | - |
| Australian Wool Innovation | - | - | - | - |
| Climate change – Global Initiative on Forests and Climate | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Drought assistance | ||||
| – Exceptional Circumstances assistance for primary producers | 100.0 | 87.1 | - | - |
| – Exceptional Circumstances assistance for small businesses | 16.2 | 13.5 | - | - |
| – interim income support for primary producers | 11.1 | - | - | - |
| – interim income support for small businesses | 1.7 | - | - | - |
| Global Integration – Food Innovation Grants – extension | 13.1 | 13.4 | 13.7 | 14.0 |
| Import risk analysis – improving quarantine processes | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Murray-Darling Basin – Additional Rural Financial Counsellors | 1.0 | - | - | - |
| National Food Industry Strategy | ||||
| – Australian Food Industry Council | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| – International Food Standards Initiative | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| – Technical Market Access | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| National Landcare Programme – continuation | - | 36.6 | 37.4 | 38.1 |
| Red Imported Fire Ant – continuation of funding for eradication | 7.0 | 3.3 | - | - |
| Wheat Export Authority | ||||
| Wheat Export Authority – additional funding | - | - | - | - |
| Portfolio total | 184.2 | 224.5 | 120.3 | 120.3 |
| ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S | ||||
| Attorney-General's Department | ||||
| A Better Future for Indigenous Australians | ||||
| – building an Indigenous workforce in government service delivery | 2.6 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| – Indigenous liaison pilot programme for the Family Court of Western Australia | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | - |
| Australia-China Free Trade Agreement – continuation of negotiations | 0.2 | 0.2 | - | - |
| Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement – commencement of negotiations | 0.4 | 0.5 | - | - |
| COAG – harmonise and rationalise the law on personal property securities | 4.8 | 19.3 | 29.8 | 30.2 |
| Cole Inquiry | ||||
| – implementation of recommendations | - | - | - | - |
| – possible criminal offences | 1.1 | 1.1 | - | - |
| Combating trafficking in persons – extension and expansion | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Firearms import permit administration and policy development – continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Helping separated parents and their children | 1.0 | 8.3 | 12.8 | 12.3 |
| Judges' pension scheme – funding of superannuation surcharge | 0.5 | - | - | - |
| Legal aid services – support for legislative changes and regional initiatives | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 |
| Overseas Deployment Law Unit – establishment | - | - | - | - |
| Strengthening National Security | ||||
| – continuation of funding for the national crisis management Watch Office | - | - | - | - |
| – continuation of funding for the National Security Hotline | - | - | - | - |
| – expanding the counter-terrorism exercise programme | 1.2 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| – public information campaign | 10.0 | 10.0 | - | - |
| Australian Crime Commission | ||||
| Australian Crime Commission – additional funding to target money laundering and fraud | - | - | - | - |
| Combating illicit drugs | ||||
| – improved intelligence and analysis | 4.8 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| – National Illicit Drug Strategy – enhanced technical capacity | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Covert intelligence – enhanced management of criminal intelligence | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Domestic security industry – investigation of organised crime | 4.2 | 4.3 | - | - |
| Australian Customs Service | ||||
| A Better Future for Indigenous Australians – illegal foreign fishing – Indigenous rangers trial | - | - | - | - |
| Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve – law enforcement and environmental management | 8.5 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.6 |
| Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement – commencement of negotiations | 0.2 | 0.4 | - | - |
| Combating illicit drugs | ||||
| – additional training for border security personnel | - | - | - | - |
| – enhanced role in Oceania | - | - | - | - |
| – upgraded detection equipment | 0.5 | 0.2 | .. | .. |
| Excise and excise-equivalent customs duty – enhancing and streamlining eligibility for refunds, remissions and drawbacks(b) | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | - |
| International traveller assessment and clearance – system modernisation(c) | 2.8 | 3.5 | - | - |
| Maritime security – Australian Maritime Identification System | 17.7 | 18.7 | 18.5 | 17.9 |
| Papua New Guinea – improving border security capability | 4.0 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.9 |
| Passenger facilitation survey | 1.5 | - | - | - |
| Standard Business Reporting | - | - | - | - |
| Australian Federal Police | ||||
| Australian Federal Police | ||||
| – accommodation scoping study | 3.3 | - | - | - |
| – contribution to Afghanistan | - | - | - | - |
| – contribution to East Timor | 12.3 | 11.1 | 13.1 | - |
| – future operational systems(c) | 1.6 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 6.3 |
| Cole Inquiry – possible criminal offences | 5.5 | 3.7 | - | - |
| Combating illicit drugs | ||||
| – enhanced Australian Federal Police investigative capacity | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| – expansion of the Australian Federal Police international liaison officer network | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.3 |
| – National Illicit Drug Strategy – enhanced technical capacity | - | - | - | - |
| Combating trafficking in persons – extension and expansion | 2.7 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.2 |
| Intellectual property crime – investigation and prosecution | 2.7 | 4.9 | - | - |
| National Illicit Drug Strategy | ||||
| – Australian Federal Police communications network | - | - | - | - |
| – Australian Federal Police law enforcement cooperation programme | - | - | - | - |
| – Australian Federal Police overseas liaison network | - | - | - | - |
| Strategy to prevent people smuggling – increased human source capacity for the Australian Federal Police | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Strengthening National Security – aviation security accommodation | 8.5 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 1.1 |
| Sudan – providing an Australian Federal Police contribution for the United Nations Mission in Sudan | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.4 | - |
| Australian Institute of Criminology | ||||
| Combating illicit drugs – Drug Use Monitoring in Australia | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Combating trafficking in persons – extension and expansion | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Australian Security Intelligence Organisation | ||||
| Strengthening National Security – improving state office accommodation | 3.0 | 7.2 | 6.1 | 6.2 |
| Family Court of Australia | ||||
| Federal Magistrates Court of Australia – additional magistrates for family law | -1.3 | -1.4 | -1.4 | -1.4 |
| Helping separated parents and their children | 3.2 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Newcastle courts – strategic assessment of accommodation needs | 0.2 | - | - | - |
| Federal Magistrates Court of Australia | ||||
| Federal Magistrates Court of Australia – additional magistrates for family law | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| Federal Magistrates Court of Australia | ||||
| Helping separated parents and their children | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.7 |
| Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission | ||||
| Workplace Relations Reform – additional resourcing for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia | ||||
| Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia – maintaining service standards | 2.8 | 2.8 | - | - |
| Proceeds of crime legislation – additional prosecutions | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions | ||||
| COAG – National trade measurement – establishment | - | - | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Cole Inquiry – possible criminal offences | 0.9 | 1.3 | - | - |
| Combating trafficking in persons – extension and expansion | 0.9 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 2.7 |
| Fraud and compliance – identity fraud – continuation of improved and increased investigations | - | - | - | - |
| Intellectual property crime – investigation and prosecution | 1.5 | 2.6 | - | - |
| Proceeds of crime legislation – additional prosecutions | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 |
| Portfolio total | 134.9 | 148.1 | 130.3 | 116.6 |
| COMMUNICATIONS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS | ||||
| Australia Council | ||||
| Australia Council – continuation of base funding | - | - | - | - |
| Major performing arts – additional funding | 5.9 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 6.1 |
| Small to medium performing arts companies – additional funding | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 |
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation | ||||
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation – Regional and Local Programming initiative – continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Digital radio – national and community broadcasters | nfp | nfp | nfp | nfp |
| Australian Communications and Media Authority | ||||
| Australian Communications and Media Authority – additional funding | 2.8 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.7 |
| Australian Film Commission | ||||
| Screen media support package | - | - | - | - |
| Australian Film, Television and Radio School | ||||
| Screen media support package | - | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.1 |
| Australian Screen Authority | ||||
| Screen media support package | - | 11.0 | 1.2 | -3.5 |
| Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority | ||||
| Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority – additional funding for investigations | 2.2 | - | - | - |
| Australian Sports Commission | ||||
| Healthy Active Australia – continuation and extension of funding for the Active After-school Communities programme | 20.8 | 41.6 | 41.6 | 20.4 |
| Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts | ||||
| 2007 World Police and Fire Games – contribution | - | - | - | - |
| A Better Future for Indigenous Australians – extension of the Return of Indigenous Cultural Property Programme | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Adelaide Oval – redevelopment | 5.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | - |
| Australia-China Free Trade Agreement – continuation of negotiations | 0.3 | 0.3 | - | - |
| Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement – commencement of negotiations | 0.2 | 0.2 | - | - |
| Australian Ballet School – facilities redevelopment | 4.6 | - | - | - |
| Australian Broadband Guarantee | ||||
| – additional funding for Broadband Connect | 20.0 | - | - | - |
| – establishment of broadband blackspot programme | 93.5 | - | - | - |
| Bundanon Trust – continuation and extension of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Digital radio – national and community broadcasters | 0.1 | 6.1 | 2.1 | 2.1 |
| National Institute of Dramatic Art – continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| National Portrait Gallery – additional operational funding | - | 6.2 | 6.7 | 6.8 |
| National Sports Museum – additional funding | 4.0 | 6.0 | - | - |
| Screen media support package | - | - | - | - |
| Sydney Cricket Ground – upgrade | 15.0 | 10.0 | - | - |
| Visual Arts and Craft Strategy – extension | 6.0 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.4 |
| Film Australia Limited | ||||
| Screen media support package | - | - | - | - |
| Special Broadcasting Service Corporation | ||||
| Digital radio – national and community broadcasters | nfp | nfp | nfp | nfp |
| Portfolio total | 186.6 | 114.1 | 84.0 | 48.2 |
| CROSS PORTFOLIO | ||||
| Various Agencies | ||||
| Strengthening National Security | ||||
| – implementing the Anti-Terrorism Act (No. 2) 2005 | 9.6 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 7.9 |
| – reducing national e-security risk | 12.9 | 15.0 | 15.9 | 18.7 |
| Superannuation – reforming the Public Sector Superannuation Scheme and the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme | - | 32.8 | 71.2 | 75.3 |
| Portfolio total | 22.5 | 56.0 | 95.0 | 102.0 |
| DEFENCE | ||||
| Defence Materiel Organisation | ||||
| Defence industry policy | - | - | - | - |
| Department of Defence | ||||
| Afghanistan – Australian Defence Force deployments | 447.9 | 191.8 | 30.9 | - |
| Air combat capability – acquisition of Super Hornets | 621.0 | 984.7 | 1260.1 | 1046.1 |
| Australian Defence Force retention and recruitment – further initiatives | 46.5 | 165.8 | 179.2 | 193.9 |
| C-17 heavy airlift – personnel and operating funding | - | 73.8 | 111.9 | 132.7 |
| Coastal surveillance – continuation | 12.6 | 12.8 | 13.0 | 13.3 |
| Defence housing – supplementation for competitive neutrality policy | - | - | - | - |
| East Timor – continued funding to help restore peace and stability | 107.7 | 27.1 | - | - |
| Iraq – continued funding for stabilisation and reconstruction activities | 301.7 | 59.7 | 28.1 | - |
| Jezzine Barracks – gift to the Townsville City Council | 20.5 | - | - | - |
| Logistics – additional funding | 107.9 | 291.3 | 236.2 | 243.3 |
| Operations CATALYST and SLIPPER – acquisition of equipment | - | - | - | - |
| Special Operations Command – continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Special Purpose Aircraft facilities at Canberra International Airport – continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Strengthening National Security | ||||
| – enhanced protective security | 33.1 | 33.5 | 34.0 | 34.8 |
| – improved Defence intelligence capability | 9.6 | 13.7 | 28.0 | 31.6 |
| Portfolio total | 1708.4 | 1854.1 | 1921.3 | 1695.6 |
| EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TRAINING | ||||
| Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies | ||||
| A Better Future for Indigenous Australians – digitisation of Indigenous cultural resources | - | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
| Australian Institute of Marine Science | ||||
| Australian Institute of Marine Science | ||||
| – additional funding | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| – move to quadrennial funding agreement and continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation | ||||
| Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation | ||||
| – additional funding for the Open Pool Australian Light-water reactor | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.5 |
| – move to quadrennial funding agreement and continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | ||||
| Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder radio-telescope – design, development and building | 6.0 | 8.1 | 5.8 | 4.3 |
| Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | ||||
| – additional funding for the Australian Animal Health Laboratory | 2.5 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 6.7 |
| – move to quadrennial funding agreement and continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation National Research Flagships | ||||
| – Climate Adaptation and Energy | 15.2 | 22.6 | 25.8 | 39.6 |
| – new manufacturing and minerals industry development | 10.4 | 12.7 | 22.4 | 25.3 |
| Healthy Active Australia – promoting healthy living | 0.8 | 1.2 | .. | .. |
| Strengthening National Security – priority counter-terrorism research | - | - | - | - |
| Department of Education, Science and Training | ||||
| 457 visas – ongoing management of caseload | 0.8 | 0.4 | - | - |
| A Better Future for Indigenous Australians | ||||
| – building an Indigenous workforce in government service delivery | 4.8 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.3 |
| – COAG Work Skills Vouchers | 4.0 | 4.8 | 6.3 | 6.3 |
| – expanding employment pathways for Indigenous young people | 8.5 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.4 |
| – Indigenous employment services | 5.6 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 6.1 |
| – opportunities for education | 13.8 | 16.5 | 26.0 | 28.1 |
| Australia-China Free Trade Agreement – continuation of negotiations | 0.2 | 0.2 | - | - |
| Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement – commencement of negotiations | 0.1 | 0.1 | - | - |
| Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder radio-telescope – design, development and building | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| COAG | ||||
| – a new national approach to early childhood education and regulation | 0.2 | 0.3 | - | - |
| – development of national standards for teaching literacy and numeracy | 1.3 | - | - | - |
| – literacy and numeracy leadership standards for principals | 0.6 | - | - | - |
| Combating illicit drugs – strengthening drug prevention education | - | - | - | - |
| Dental school – Charles Sturt University | - | 1.1 | 2.2 | 3.3 |
| Drought assistance | ||||
| – Exceptional Circumstances assistance for primary producers | 2.9 | 2.2 | - | - |
| – Exceptional Circumstances assistance for small businesses | 0.7 | 0.5 | - | - |
| Efficiencies in service delivery agencies | -2.2 | -2.3 | -2.4 | -2.6 |
| Fraud and compliance | ||||
| – compliance reviews – continuation of expanded data matching | - | - | - | - |
| – consolidation and expansion of risk profile reviews for student payments | 1.3 | -0.5 | -1.8 | - |
| – identity fraud – continuation of improved and increased investigations | - | - | - | - |
| – residency eligibility validation system for payments and concessions | - | -0.4 | -0.4 | -0.4 |
| – transfer of death registration information | -0.1 | -0.1 | -0.1 | - |
| Higher Education Information Management System – maintain funding | - | - | - | - |
| Humanitarian settlement initiatives | ||||
| – extending the Crisis Payment to newly arrived humanitarian entrants on arrival in Australia | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| – increased per capita funding for English as a Second Language | 28.4 | 31.4 | 33.1 | 34.9 |
| Investing In Our Schools Programme – continuation | 190.1 | 5.8 | - | - |
| Job Capacity Assessment – reinforcing the role | .. | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Learned Academies – support of operations | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Medical research facilities – grants for development and expansion | - | - | - | - |
| Migration Programme | ||||
| – 4,000 additional family stream places for 2006-07 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
| – 8,800 place increase for 2007-08 | 4.3 | 10.0 | 16.5 | 21.6 |
| Museum of Economic Botany – refurbishment | - | - | - | - |
| National Disability Coordination Officer Programme | 2.4 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.1 |
| Realising Our Potential | ||||
| – additional Commonwealth Learning Scholarships | 11.6 | 22.3 | 26.6 | 30.9 |
| – additional support for regional and remote schools | 15.4 | 32.2 | 35.2 | 38.3 |
| – allowing more responsive universities | 51.3 | 56.6 | 57.1 | 58.2 |
| – Australian Government Summer Schools for Teachers | 30.0 | 24.8 | 23.2 | 23.6 |
| – Australian Technical Colleges | 1.1 | 19.8 | 27.4 | 17.1 |
| – core curricula standards | 4.4 | 8.6 | - | 0.1 |
| – Diversity and Structural Adjustment Fund | 16.5 | 16.7 | 16.8 | 16.8 |
| – extending income support to Masters students | 5.5 | 11.2 | 12.5 | 14.1 |
| – extending Rent Assistance to Austudy recipients | 13.2 | 24.0 | 24.5 | 25.1 |
| Realising Our Potential | ||||
| – fast-track apprenticeships | 6.4 | 11.8 | 17.3 | 23.0 |
| – fee assistance for Australian Apprentices | 47.8 | 52.2 | 52.9 | 53.6 |
| – FEE-HELP for Diploma and Advanced Diploma VET courses | 4.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
| – Higher Education Endowment Fund | - | 304.0 | 304.0 | 304.0 |
| – improving the practical component of teacher education | 18.8 | 19.2 | 19.4 | 19.6 |
| – increasing university funding | 156.8 | 143.2 | 133.6 | 126.0 |
| – national literacy and numeracy vouchers | 70.9 | 120.9 | 131.4 | 134.1 |
| – national student aptitude test for tertiary admission | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.8 | - |
| – national teacher training and registration standards | 2.7 | 2.2 | - | - |
| – reducing red tape for universities | 0.6 | 0.3 | - | - |
| – rewarding schools for improving literacy and numeracy outcomes | 2.2 | 17.0 | 16.9 | 17.0 |
| – support for young Australian Apprentices in skill-shortage trades | 69.3 | 87.1 | 90.7 | 95.4 |
| Workplace English Language and Literacy Programme – continuation | - | - | - | - |
| Youth Allowance – participation requirements for payment eligibility | -0.3 | -0.7 | -0.7 | -0.7 |
| Portfolio total | 848.2 | 1135.1 | 1170.5 | 1202.4 |
| EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE RELATIONS | ||||
| Department of Employment and Workplace Relations | ||||
| 457 visas – ongoing management of caseload | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| A Better Future for Indigenous Australians | ||||
| – building an Indigenous workforce in government service delivery | -7.5 | -8.8 | -9.1 | -9.4 |
| – Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) programme – continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| – compliance and eligibility checks for Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) programme participants | -0.5 | -17.7 | -18.3 | -19.2 |
| – enhancing opportunities for employment and participation in remote communities | 5.8 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| – improving accountability and increasing returns from Indigenous assets | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| – Indigenous employment services | -5.5 | -18.8 | -20.7 | -20.6 |
| Above General Rate component of Disability Pension – increases to the Special and Intermediate Rates | -0.3 | -0.3 | -0.3 | -0.3 |
| Centrelink Financial Information Service – improved advice on compensation payments | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Efficiencies in service delivery agencies | -13.3 | -14.0 | -14.7 | -15.4 |
| Fraud and compliance | ||||
| – compliance reviews – continuation of expanded data matching | - | - | - | - |
| Fraud and compliance | ||||
| – Disability Support Pension – continuation of enhanced reviews | - | - | - | - |
| – identity fraud – continuation of improved and increased investigations | - | - | - | - |
| – improved reporting of changes in income of people receiving Centrelink payments | -4.2 | -16.0 | -16.5 | - |
| – Parenting Payments – continuation of enhanced profiling capacity | - | - | - | - |
| – residency eligibility validation system for payments and concessions | 0.1 | -1.3 | -1.3 | -1.3 |
| – transfer of death registration information | -0.4 | -0.4 | -0.4 | - |
| – verification of earnings to improve the accuracy of payments | 2.4 | -1.8 | -3.9 | - |
| – Youth Allowance – continuation of restructured reviews of job seekers | - | - | - | - |
| Funeral bonds means test exemption – increased threshold | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Humanitarian settlement initiatives – extending the Crisis Payment to newly arrived humanitarian entrants on arrival in Australia | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Job Capacity Assessment – reinforcing the role | 1.3 | 0.4 | .. | -0.7 |
| Labour assistance package | ||||
| – expansion of the South Australian automotive workers labour adjustment fund | 0.8 | 0.6 | - | - |
| – ACL Bearings | 0.1 | .. | - | - |
| – supplementary funding for the South Australian labour adjustment package | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | - |
| Migration Programme | ||||
| – 4,000 additional family stream places for 2006-07 | 0.1 | .. | 13.2 | 11.5 |
| – 8,800 place increase for 2007-08 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 12.8 | 35.8 |
| Mobility Allowance – expanding eligibility criteria | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.9 |
| Parenting Payment – expanded access to supplementary concessions | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| Personal Support Programme – additional places | 2.8 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| Relocation assistance for job seekers – expanded pilot | 0.5 | - | - | - |
| Seniors bonus payment | - | - | - | - |
| Skills surveys – expansion | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Vocational Rehabilitation Services and the Disability Employment Network | ||||
| – additional places | 10.2 | 10.5 | 9.3 | 9.9 |
| – eligibility for adult prisoners with a disability | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Work for the Dole | ||||
| – increasing the use of training credits | 2.4 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 |
| – standardising early access to training credits | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Workers' compensation – management of asbestos and other dust diseases | - | - | - | - |
| Workplace Relations Reform – continuation of the WorkChoices Employer Advisor Programme | 10.1 | - | - | - |
| Youth Allowance – participation requirements for payment eligibility | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Office of Workplace Services | ||||
| 457 visas – ongoing management of caseload | 4.0 | 3.4 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| Workplace Relations Reform – reinforcing the regional network of the Office of Workplace Services | 12.2 | 8.0 | 1.2 | - |
| Portfolio total | 32.1 | -34.4 | -25.8 | 12.4 |
| ENVIRONMENT AND WATER RESOURCES | ||||
| Bureau of Meteorology | ||||
| National Plan for Water Security – improving water information | 23.7 | 39.2 | 46.2 | 51.3 |
| World-class weather forecasting – continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Department of the Environment and Water Resources | ||||
| A Better Future for Indigenous Australians – building an Indigenous workforce in government service delivery | 7.6 | 9.9 | 15.0 | 15.1 |
| Australian Biological Resources Study | - | - | - | - |
| Climate change | ||||
| – Australian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation | 17.1 | 22.0 | 23.0 | 27.5 |
| – coal mine methane reduction | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| – expansion of Photovoltaic Rebate Programme | 6.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 11.1 |
| – Global Initiative on Forests and Climate | 3.5 | 4.5 | 5.8 | 4.6 |
| – phase out of inefficient light bulbs | - | - | - | - |
| – small business and household action initiative | - | - | - | - |
| Community Water Grants – extension | 16.3 | 52.2 | 79.7 | 49.0 |
| Distinctively Australian – continuation of funding | -0.3 | -1.4 | -2.4 | -2.5 |
| Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 – enhanced administration | 17.4 | 17.6 | 17.7 | 17.9 |
| Environment Protection Policy – continuation of funding | 9.8 | 9.9 | 9.1 | 9.2 |
| Environmental Stewardship Programme | 5.0 | 10.0 | 15.0 | 20.0 |
| Mawson's Huts in Antarctica – conservation | - | - | - | - |
| National Plan for Water Security | ||||
| – addressing over-allocation in the Murray-Darling Basin | 27.0 | 85.9 | 423.8 | 495.8 |
| – modernising irrigation in Australia | 52.3 | 154.0 | 452.2 | 861.4 |
| – northern Australia and the Great Artesian Basin | 2.5 | 2.5 | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| – reforming the Murray-Darling Basin Commission | 59.5 | 56.6 | 57.4 | 56.9 |
| Natural Heritage Trust Phase Three | - | 395.0 | 395.0 | 395.0 |
| Scouts Australia 100 year anniversary – water saving infrastructure | 5.9 | 5.9 | - | - |
| Shipping support for Australia's Antarctic Programme | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.2 |
| St Mary's Cathedral – conservation and completion appeal | - | - | - | - |
| Yellow Crazy Ants on Christmas Island – expansion of control efforts | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority | ||||
| Climate change – Australian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Great Barrier Reef | ||||
| – additional funding for field management | 4.4 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.3 |
| – continuation of water quality monitoring programme | - | - | - | - |
| Portfolio total | 266.3 | 886.8 | 1576.0 | 2039.8 |
| FAMILIES, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS | ||||
| Aboriginal Hostels Limited | ||||
| A Better Future for Indigenous Australians | ||||
| – accommodation support for education and health | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 3.3 |
| – opportunities for education | - | - | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs | ||||
| A Better Future for Indigenous Australians | ||||
| – building an Indigenous workforce in government service delivery | 4.7 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| – Centrelink access sites – continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| – continuation of Indigenous social and economic research | - | - | - | - |
| – continuation of the Cape York Digital Network | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| – enhancing opportunities for employment and participation in remote communities | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| – expansion of playgroups for Indigenous families | 2.3 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 4.1 |
| – foundations for Indigenous welfare reform | - | - | - | - |
| – improved access to child care and early childhood services | 1.8 | 7.8 | 6.4 | 7.5 |
| – Indigenous housing and infrastructure reforms | 8.8 | 94.5 | 86.5 | 103.8 |
| – Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children – continuation | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| – opportunities for education | 3.1 | 12.4 | 19.6 | 5.5 |
| Above General Rate component of Disability Pension – increases to the Special and Intermediate Rates | -0.5 | -0.5 | -0.5 | -0.5 |
| Anniversary of Bali and London bombings and Bali trials – travel assistance to families | - | - | - | - |
| Assets test exemption for exceptional circumstances | * | * | * | * |
| Assistance to Families at Risk of Overpayment – additional resourcing | 3.4 | 0.1 | - | - |
| Assurance of Support simplification package | 5.6 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| Australian Early Development Index – funding for Stage 2 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.2 | - |
| Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth – additional resourcing | 2.1 | 2.2 | - | - |
| Baby Bonus – introducing birth registration as a condition | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Bushfire assistance – ex-gratia payments to victims of the bushfires in Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia | 0.1 | - | - | - |
| Carer bonus | 3.9 | - | - | - |
| Carer ex-gratia payment | 6.5 | - | - | - |
| Centrelink rural call centres – continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Child care – integrated quality assurance system | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
| Child Care Benefit – increased rates | 142.6 | 136.5 | 132.8 | 135.7 |
| Child care in regional and remote Australia – additional resourcing | 8.6 | 10.2 | 12.0 | 13.0 |
| Child care Inclusion Support Subsidy – additional funding | 14.9 | 15.3 | 15.8 | 16.3 |
| Child Care Tax Rebate – conversion to a direct payment | 514.6 | 558.5 | 610.7 | 662.9 |
| COAG – a new national approach to early childhood education and regulation | 0.6 | 0.4 | - | - |
| Combating trafficking in persons – extension and expansion | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Commonwealth State and Territory Disability Agreement – negotiation of new agreement with the States and Territories | 153.7 | 156.4 | 159.2 | 162.1 |
| Cyclones George and Jacob – assistance | 0.1 | - | - | - |
| Disability business services – continuation of case-based funding model | - | - | - | - |
| East Timor 2006 – medical evacuees | - | - | - | - |
| Efficiencies in service delivery agencies | -9.5 | -9.9 | -10.4 | -11.0 |
| Financial responsibilities of parenthood – development of an education resource | 0.5 | - | - | - |
| Fraud and compliance | ||||
| – Age Pension – additional assessments of the value of real estate assets | -7.2 | -56.8 | -66.8 | - |
| – Age Pension – data exchange with the United Kingdom | -5.7 | -8.7 | -5.4 | - |
| – compliance reviews – continuation of expanded data matching | - | - | - | - |
| – consistent assessment of Family Tax Benefit | -36.5 | 5.0 | 4.7 | - |
| – identity fraud – continuation of improved and increased investigations | - | - | - | - |
| – preventing carer payment debt | -3.6 | -12.1 | -12.1 | -12.4 |
| – residency eligibility validation system for payments and concessions | -10.3 | -4.9 | -10.2 | -10.4 |
| – rolling random sample survey programme – continuation and expansion | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.3 | - |
| – transfer of death registration information | -5.6 | -6.6 | -6.8 | - |
| – verification of earnings to improve the accuracy of payments | .. | .. | .. | - |
| Funeral bonds means test exemption – increased threshold | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| Health Care Card for ex-Carer Allowance (child) students aged 16-25 years | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| Helping separated parents and their children | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.7 |
| Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (HILDA) – extension of data collection | 0.3 | 3.7 | 7.5 | 9.3 |
| Humanitarian settlement initiatives – extending the Crisis Payment to newly arrived humanitarian entrants on arrival in Australia | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Influenza pandemic – managing the social and community impacts | 4.9 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 |
| Jobs, Education and Training Child Care Fee Assistance – additional resourcing | 16.4 | 0.2 | -1.1 | -0.1 |
| Men and Family Relationships Services and Family Relationships Education – continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Migration Programme | ||||
| – 4,000 additional family stream places for 2006-07 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 5.0 |
| – 8,800 place increase for 2007-08 | 5.7 | 16.9 | 28.9 | 41.4 |
| Multiple Birth Allowance – extension of eligibility | 2.1 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.7 |
| National Disability Advocacy Programme – enhancements | 2.8 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
| Pension Bonus Scheme – enhancements | 9.0 | 11.6 | 12.1 | 12.5 |
| Reconnect – continuation of funding | - | - | - | - |
| Respite Support for Carers of Young People with Severe and Profound Disabilities – continuation and expansion of funding | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Seniors bonus payment | 11.3 | - | - | - |
| Social Security Agreement between Australia and Germany – supplementary agreement | - | - | - | - |
| Social Security Agreement between Australia and Korea – establishment | - | - | - | - |
| Volunteer Small Equipment Grants – expansion | 13.9 | 13.8 | 14.0 | 14.2 |
| Portfolio total | 887.9 | 984.7 | 1037.7 | 1186.0 |
| FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION | ||||
| Commonwealth Grants Commission | ||||
| Commonwealth Grants Commission – re-appointment of Commissioner | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Commonwealth Superannuation Administration | ||||
| Australian Government Superannuation – strengthening information technology capacity | 0.3 | -1.6 | 2.2 | 0.4 |
| Civilian and Military Superannuation Schemes – providing more equitable arrangements for certain pensioners and scheme members | 0.4 | 0.1 | - | - |
| ComSuper Simplified Superannuation | 0.9 | - | - | - |
| Superannuation – reforming the Public Sector Superannuation Scheme and the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme | 2.1 | 2.1 | - | - |
| Department of Finance and Administration | ||||
| Asset sales function – continuation of resourcing | 1.3 | - | - | - |
| Australia-China Free Trade Agreement – continuation of negotiations | 0.3 | 0.3 | - | - |
| Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement – commencement of negotiations | 0.2 | 0.2 | - | - |
| Australian Government Online Service Point – establishment | 8.0 | 8.4 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
| Australian Government's unfunded liability to universities' superannuation arrangements – scoping study | 2.6 | - | - | - |
| Civilian and Military Superannuation Schemes – providing more equitable arrangements for certain pensioners and scheme members | * | * | * | * |
| Comcover – discontinuation of the reinsurance programme | -22.9 | -23.1 | -23.1 | -23.3 |
| Darwin Commonwealth Law Courts building – stage 1 land acquisition and scoping study(c) | 1.5 | - | - | - |
| Fort Scratchley – additional resourcing for restoration | 4.0 | - | - | - |
| Fraud and compliance – a more strategic approach to addressing fraud and non-compliance | 0.5 | - | - | - |
| Members of Parliament staff | ||||
| – additional resources | 16.4 | 17.0 | 17.4 | 16.7 |
| – enhanced security arrangements | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| – occupational health and safety and employee assistance services | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 2.2 |
| Programme reviews – enhanced framework | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Standard Business Reporting | - | - | - | - |
| Superannuation – reforming the Public Sector Superannuation Scheme and the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme | -3.2 | -36.8 | -76.0 | -84.2 |
| Portfolio total | 18.7 | -26.9 | -67.7 | -78.1 |
| FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE | ||||
| AusAID | ||||
| Climate change – Global Initiative on Forests and Climate |