PORTFOLIO
BUDGET STATEMENTS
2007-08
TREASURY PORTFOLIO
BUDGET INITIATIVES AND EXPLANATIONS OF
APPROPRIATIONS SPECIFIED BY OUTCOMES AND OUTPUTS BY AGENCY
BUDGET RELATED PAPER No. 1.17
© Commonwealth of Australia 2007
ISBN 0 642 74395 9
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Treasurer
PARLIAMENT HOUSE
CANBERRA 2600
President of the Senate
Australian Senate
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
Speaker
House of Representatives
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
Dear Mr President
Dear Mr Speaker
I hereby submit Portfolio Budget Statements in support of the 2007-08 Budget for the Treasury Portfolio.
These statements have been developed, and are submitted to the Parliament, as a statement of the outcomes for the portfolio.
I present these statements by virtue of my responsibility for accountability to the Parliament and, through it, the public.
Yours sincerely
Peter Costello
Abbreviations and conventions
The following notations may be used:
- NEC/nec
- not elsewhere classified
- -
- nil
- ..
- not zero, but rounded to zero
- na
- not applicable (unless otherwise specified)
- nfp
- not for publication
- $m
- $ million
- $b
- $ billion
Figures in tables and in the text may be rounded. Figures in text are generally rounded to one decimal place, whereas figures in tables are generally rounded to the nearest thousand. Discrepancies in tables between totals and sums of components are due to rounding.
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