Australian Government, 2008‑09 Budget
Budget

Part 2: Expense Measures (continued)

Table 2: Expense measures since the 2007‑08 MYEFO(a)

  2007‑08
$m
2008‑09
$m
2009‑10
$m
2010‑11
$m
2011‑12
$m
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE RELATIONS          
Australian Fair Pay Commission Secretariat          
Responsible Economic Management — A Fairer and Flexible Workplace Relations System -2.3 -1.3 -1.3 -2.5 -2.5
Australian Industrial Registry          
A Fairer and Flexible Workplace Relations System - 3.2 2.9 3.6 3.6
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations          
Australian Office for Youth - - - - -
Australian Youth Forum - 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0
Carers — improved support - - -120.0 -145.3 -152.0
Centre for Social Impact — endowment to establish the centre - - - - -
Centrelink call centre supplementation — continuation - 20.3 - - -
Closing the Gap          
— contribution to Indigenous boarding colleges - 18.8 5.1 2.5 2.5
— expansion of intensive literacy and numeracy programs and individual learning plans - 8.1 16.1 16.1 16.1
— getting remote Aboriginal children to enrol in school 3.8 11.6 20.0 29.0 34.4
— Northern Territory — crèches - 2.3 - - -
— Northern Territory — enhancing education - 19.1 - - -
— Northern Territory — further welfare and employment reform -38.6 66.4 - - -
— Northern Territory — school nutrition - 7.4 - - -
Drought assistance          
— Exceptional Circumstances assistance for primary producers — additional declarations - - - - -
— Exceptional Circumstances assistance for small business — additional declarations - - - - -
Education Revolution          
— Early Childhood — additional child care places - 44.9 26.1 12.7 13.1
— Early Childhood — Australian Early Development Index — national rollout 3.0 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.3
— Early Childhood — Child Care Tax Rebate — increase from 30 per cent to 50 per cent - 340.3 376.0 410.2 444.5
— Early Childhood — Early Childhood Education Workforce Strategy — 50 per cent HECS-HELP remission for early childhood education teachers with a HECS-HELP debt working in eligible regions - - 3.0 4.0 5.4
— Early Childhood — Early Years Learning Framework - 2.5 - - -
— Early Childhood — Helping Parents Prepare their Children for School — Home Interaction Program - 3.1 5.8 8.3 9.9
— Early Childhood — Jobs, Education and Training child care fee assistance — additional funding - 7.7 6.9 4.6 4.7
— Early Childhood — Strong Quality Standards in Child Care - 5.7 5.4 5.6 5.5
— Early Childhood — universal access 13.5 40.0 80.0 100.0 300.0
— Early Childhood — Workforce Strategy — additional university places for early childhood education - 2.2 8.2 17.2 26.4
— Early Childhood — Workforce Strategy — removal of TAFE fees - 8.9 16.3 17.4 17.7
— Higher Education — building better universities 500.0 - - - -
— Higher Education — enhanced connectivity between Centrelink and university systems - 0.5 - - -
— Higher Education — HECS reduction for Maths and Science students and HECS‑HELP remission for Maths and Science graduates - 37.5 117.7 197.7 272.8
— Higher Education — James Cook University Dental School - 34.6 3.7 5.0 6.2
— Higher Education — phasing out full fee paying domestic undergraduate places at public universities - 17.6 49.6 78.2 103.6
— Higher Education — Scholarships for a Competitive Future - 9.9 33.6 71.9 123.2
— Higher Education — University of Notre Dame — additional places and capital funding - 8.3 2.2 3.5 4.6
— Improving our schools — Digital Education Revolution 100.0 400.0 300.0 200.0 200.0
— Improving our schools — Enterprise and Career Education Program — school and business linkages - 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6
— Improving our schools — establishing a National Curriculum Board for Australian Schools - 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0
— Improving our schools — Local Schools Working Together 20.0 20.0 17.5 5.0 -
— Improving our schools — Mentors for Our Students - 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3
— Improving our schools — National Action Plan for Literacy and Numeracy - 95.5 157.6 160.7 163.5
— Improving our schools — National Schools Assessment and Data Centre - 2.9 5.5 4.4 4.5
— Improving our schools — Orthodox Jewish Schools — additional funding 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 -
— Improving our schools — Preparing Australia for the Future — National Asian Language and Studies in Schools Program - 10.0 21.2 31.2 -
— Improving our schools — Trade Training Centres in Schools Program - 233.1 242.9 253.1 263.7
— Skilling Australia — Commonwealth Trade Learning Scholarship — extension of scholarship for early completion of apprenticeship - - - - -
— Skilling Australia — Employer and apprentice incentives for apprentices in skills shortage — remove the prior-qualification rule - - - - -
— Skilling Australia — Employer incentives for intermediate qualifications - - - - -
— Skilling Australia — school grants for on‑the-job training - 14.0 28.0 28.0 27.9
— Skilling Australia — Skilling Australia for the Future 33.3 232.6 412.2 620.3 620.3
— Skilling Australia — Skills Australia 2.6 3.0 4.0 5.0 5.0
— Skilling Australia — WesTrac National Skills Training Centre of Excellence and Television Technical Operators College — contribution - - - - -
Health and Hospitals Reform — Health Workforce — additional higher education nursing places - 8.4 21.2 31.1 38.8
Helping Seniors Make Ends Meet — Seniors Bonus 40.5 - - - -
Higher Education Endowment Fund — funding reallocation - -304.0 304.0 - -
Humanitarian migration program          
— additional 500 places for Iraqis in 2008‑09 - 3.9 4.3 4.2 4.3
— additional 750 Special Humanitarian Program places from 2009‑10 - - 5.5 14.8 21.8
Local Community Centres — contribution - 1.1 - - -
Means-testing of government support          
— expanded definitions of income to include certain 'salary sacrificed' contributions to superannuation(c) - 0.7 -39.9 -34.8 -34.8
— expanded definitions of income to include net losses from investments(c) - 1.2 -0.4 -0.5 -0.5
Migration Program          
— 37,500 place increase for 2008‑09 - 59.0 77.5 109.2 152.8
— additional 6,000 skill stream places for 2007‑08 - 8.0 3.3 12.1 10.7
Office of Work and Family — establishment -0.3 -0.5 -0.4 -0.4 -0.4
Public Policy Institute of the University of Melbourne — contribution 15.0 - - - -
Removal of differential treatment of same‑sex couples and their children — law reform 0.1 11.8 -7.4 -30.3 -32.1
Responsible Economic Management          
— A Fairer and Flexible Workplace Relations System - -0.7 -3.3 -7.2 -7.2
— Apprenticeship Incentives for Agriculture and Horticulture -7.7 -12.7 -13.5 -13.9 -0.9
— Australia-China Free Trade Agreement — departmental funding -0.1 -0.2 - - -
— Australian Apprenticeship Workforce Skills Development Program - -5.1 -5.1 -5.2 -5.2
— Australian Apprenticeships State and Territory Incentives Program - -5.3 -15.6 -20.5 -22.2
— Australian Technical Colleges — rationalisation - -32.7 -31.5 -17.1 -18.2
— Career Advice Australia - -2.9 -2.9 -2.9 -2.9
— Carrick Institute -5.4 - - - -
— Centrelink — further call centre supplementation -1.7 - - - -
— Child Care Benefit — remove the minimum rate 1.8 -43.8 -51.1 -61.1 -68.1
— clinical training for enrolled nurses -0.9 -4.3 -5.0 -5.4 -5.7
— Employment Entry Payment — Abolish from 1 July 2008 0.9 -10.7 -11.5 -11.4 -11.3
— Employment Services for 2009‑10 to 2011‑12 - 54.5 -38.9 -148.4 -157.7
— Fraud and compliance — assessments to verify income or assets - -69.7 -80.6 -79.4 -79.1
— Fraud and compliance — cessation of 'Keeping the System Fair' advertising campaign - -13.0 -13.1 -13.2 -13.3
— General Employee Entitlements and Redundancy Scheme — continue funding liquidators to pursue litigation - -8.0 - - -
— Institute for Trade Skills Excellence - -6.4 -4.8 -4.8 -4.9
— Learning and Teaching Performance Fund - -10.7 -10.7 -10.7 -10.7
— Living Away from Home Allowance — extension to Australian School-Based Apprenticeships -0.1 - - - -
— Partner Service Pension — cease payment to married partners who are separated but not divorced - 0.6 1.2 1.3 1.3
— Pilot program addressing undeclared business income and assets — cessation -0.5 - - - -
— Quality Outcomes Program - -4.8 -7.3 -8.1 -8.5
— Realising Our Potential — Core Curricula Standards Program - -8.6 - -0.1 -
— Realising Our Potential — National Literacy and Numeracy Vouchers Program - -60.6 -131.9 -134.7 -137.4
— Realising Our Potential — Rewarding Schools for Improving Literacy and Numeracy Outcomes Program - -17.1 -16.9 -17.0 -17.0
— Realising Our Potential — Summer Schools for Teachers Program - -24.9 -23.3 -23.7 -24.2
— Skills for the Future — business skills vouchers for apprentices - -2.7 -3.2 -4.0 -4.0
— Skills for the Future — work skills vouchers -16.3 -190.4 -190.4 -190.6 -190.6
— Teaching Australia — Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership - -2.6 -2.0 -1.3 -1.3
Social inclusion agenda -0.3 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6
South Australian Innovation and Investment Fund and Labour Assistance Package — supplementary funding to Mitsubishi Employees 5.5 1.5 0.3 0.2 -
Temporary Protection visa — abolition .. 3.9 2.8 3.0 3.7
Temporary working visas — enhanced arrangements - - - - -
Textile, clothing and footwear outworkers — homeworkers code of practice 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 -
Visa places for Iraqi locally engaged employees - 5.8 4.9 5.0 5.1
Welfare Payments Reform — child protection pilot and school attendance and enrolment pilot 0.1 16.6 0.8 - -
Work and family support for small businesses - 3.6 4.0 4.4 -
Workplace relations reforms — protected action ballots - - 0.1 0.1 0.1
Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner          
Responsible Economic Management — A Fairer and Flexible Workplace Relations System -3.0 - - - -
Office of the Workplace Ombudsman          
A Fairer and Flexible Workplace Relations System - 5.8 11.9 - -
Responsible Economic Management — A Fairer and Flexible Workplace Relations System - - - -1.0 -1.0
Workplace Authority          
Responsible Economic Management — A Fairer and Flexible Workplace Relations System -30.0 -30.0 -106.2 -97.3 -97.3
Portfolio total 638.0 1,064.9 1,491.1 1,407.7 1,821.4
ENVIRONMENT, WATER, HERITAGE AND THE ARTS          
Australia Council          
A Creative Australia          
— support for Young and Emerging Artists — implementation - - - - -
— Sydney Dance Company — contribution - - - - -
Artists in Residence Education Initiative - 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3
Creative Communities Program — establishment - 2.8 2.8 2.8 -
Bureau of Meteorology          
Bureau of Meteorology — Emerald weather radar station - 0.2 0.5 0.5 0.5
Responsible Economic Management — Water for the Future — Bureau of Meteorology -5.0 - - - -
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts          
A Creative Australia          
— Prime Minister's Literary Award — establishment 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 -
— Regional Arts Fund — continuation - - - - -
— Resale Royalty Rights for Visual Artists — implementation - 0.8 0.5 0.3 -
Anti-whaling action — aerial monitoring 0.7 - - - -
Caring for our Country - -12.5 -10.5 0.5 5.0
Closing the Gap — National Arts and Crafts Industry Support Program — expansion 1.6 2.0 2.0 2.0 -
Creative Communities Program — establishment 1.8 - - - -
Director of National Parks — extension - 4.4 - - -
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Structural Adjustment Package — additional funding - - - - -
Kokoda Track — assistance to Papua New Guinea for management of the Kokoda Track and the Owen Stanley Ranges - - - - -
Responsible Economic Management          
— Bimbimbie Wildlife Park - - - - -
— Biodiversity Hotspots — reduction in funding -6.0 - - - -
— Chamber Music Australia -0.1 - - - -
— Community Water Grants - -41.5 -26.5 -1.9 -3.7
— Green Vouchers for Schools -99.6 -149.1 -51.3 -34.3 -
— Greenhouse Gas Abatement Program -4.2 -0.6 -3.6 2.1 2.1
— Low Emissions Technology and Abatement program — reduction in funding -2.2 - - - -
— Low Emissions Technology Demonstration Fund -47.0 26.0 47.7 -9.5 47.4
— Renewable Remote Power Generation Program — reduction in funding -33.0 -9.0 - - -
— Water for the Future — Murray-Darling Basin Authority -45.0 -26.0 - - -
Tackling Climate Change          
— Deception Bay Pool — contribution - - - - -
— Energy Efficiency of Electrical Appliances - 2.0 4.1 4.0 3.9
— Green Loans - 17.4 60.2 88.1 87.9
— Hot water system phase out — development and implementation - - - - -
— Low Emission Plan for Renters — establishment - 10.5 37.5 50.0 50.0
— National Solar Schools Plan 9.0 74.6 119.7 107.2 50.8
— One Stop Green Shop — establishment - 1.0 1.0 1.0 -
— Solar Cities and Green Precincts 1.0 8.0 8.0 8.0 -
— Solar Homes and Communities Plan - 25.6 19.4 -27.4 -17.7
Water for the Future          
— National Rainwater and Greywater Initiative - 19.0 38.0 59.0 60.0
— National Urban Water and Desalination Plan - 14.0 129.0 195.0 315.0
— National Water Security Plan for Cities and Towns 10.0 39.8 55.0 75.0 75.0
— taking early action 96.2 110.0 193.8 - -400.0
— Water Efficiency — Western Australia 35.0 - - - -35.0
National Water Commission          
Responsible Economic Management — Rainfall enhancement technology — cancellation of project * - - - -
Portfolio total -86.6 121.1 628.9 524.0 242.6
FAMILIES, HOUSING, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS          
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs          
A Place to Call Home - 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0
Ageing Carers — additional support 100.0 - - - -
Brendan's Fund — ex-gratia payment - - - - -
Business Services Wage Assessment Tool — continuation - 4.3 7.6 8.1 5.8
Carer Bonus 426.7 1.4 - - -
Carers — improved support 0.2 20.4 197.8 239.9 250.0
Centrelink call centre supplementation — continuation - 38.8 - - -
Closing the Gap          
— closing the evidence gap - 1.1 0.6 - -
— Indigenous early development and learning services — parenting support 0.6 3.1 4.8 8.1 -
— Indigenous mothers' accommodation fund - 2.0 4.0 4.0 -
— Northern Territory — accommodation for government personnel in remote communities - 0.3 - - -
— Northern Territory — community engagement - 3.8 - - -
— Northern Territory — continuation of early childhood program - 0.4 - - -
— Northern Territory — family support package - 9.8 - - -
— Northern Territory — further welfare and employment reform 49.5 - - - -
— Northern Territory — government business managers - 30.8 - - -
— Northern Territory — income management 2.7 60.1 - - -
— Northern Territory — leadership and coordination - 32.4 - - -
— Northern Territory — playgroups - 0.7 - - -
— Northern Territory — promoting law and order - 11.6 - - -
— Northern Territory — youth alcohol diversion - 9.5 - - -
— reconciliation between Indigenous and Non‑Indigenous Australians — consultation - - - - -
Disability Assistance Package — redirection of funds to the Commonwealth State Territory Disability Agreement - - - - -
Education Revolution          
— Early Childhood — additional child care places - 1.4 5.4 5.5 5.6
— Early Childhood — Australian Early Development Index — national rollout -0.7 -1.0 -1.2 - -
Financial Counselling — enhancing existing programs - 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0
Helping Seniors Make Ends Meet          
— Broadband for Seniors - 5.0 5.0 5.0 -
— Seniors Bonus 1,165.1 0.5 - - -
— Seniors Concession Allowance — increase - - - - -
— Telephone Allowance — assistance with home internet connections 6.8 31.5 36.0 42.4 47.5
— Utilities Allowance — increase and extend eligibility - - - - -
Home in Queanbeyan Mental Health Service - 1.0 1.0 - -
Housing Affordability Fund - 52.2 77.1 77.1 152.8
Humanitarian migration program          
— additional 500 places for Iraqis in 2008‑09 - 1.4 2.2 2.2 2.3
— additional 750 Special Humanitarian Program places from 2009‑10 - - 2.1 5.4 8.9
Maternity Immunisation Allowance — eligibility change - -13.5 -32.1 -32.6 -7.3
Means-testing of government support          
— expanded definitions of income to include certain 'salary sacrificed' contributions to superannuation(c) - 2.8 -89.7 -80.1 -80.2
— expanded definitions of income to include net losses from investments(c) - 3.8 -2.8 -4.7 -4.7
Migration Program          
— 37,500 place increase for 2008‑09 - 22.2 67.2 114.5 164.7
— additional 6,000 skill stream places for 2007‑08 - 3.8 7.6 7.8 8.0
National Disability Strategy - - - - -
National framework for protecting Australia's children - 1.2 1.3 0.1 -
National Housing Supply Council 0.9 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3
National plan to reduce violence against women and children 0.3 0.5 0.3 0.3 -
National Reciprocal Transport Concessions - 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5
National Rental Affordability Scheme - 13.0 25.2 35.6 55.1
Office for Housing — establishment 0.3 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8
Office of Work and Family — establishment -0.3 -0.5 -0.4 -0.4 -0.4
President Ramos-Horta — non-medical support 0.1 - - - -
Queensland Floods — assistance 16.2 1.9 - - -
Removal of differential treatment of same‑sex couples and their children — law reform 0.1 9.7 -18.5 -25.2 -30.5
Respite brokerage for older carers -2.0 2.0 - - -
Responsible Economic Management          
— Access Card -0.1 -0.1 -0.1 -0.1 -0.1
— Better targeting and delivery of Baby Bonus - -52.4 -96.5 -101.0 -104.7
— Better targeting and delivery of Family Tax Benefit — $150,000 income test on primary earner for FTB-B 0.5 -112.8 -132.4 -141.2 -158.0
— Better targeting and delivery of Family Tax Benefit — continuous adjustment to reduce over-payments of Family Tax Benefit - 1.7 -14.3 -0.5 0.6
— Better targeting and delivery of Family Tax Benefit — streamlining administration - 2,139.5 2,171.4 2,210.8 2,250.2
— Centrelink — further call centre supplementation -3.3 - - - -
— Commonwealth Seniors Health Card — adjusted taxable income test - 11.6 -9.7 -12.2 -13.0
— Community Business Partnership — abolition -0.7 -0.5 - - -
— Concession Cards — retention while overseas - -4.9 -4.9 -4.9 -5.0
— Employment Entry Payment — Abolish from 1 July 2008 0.1 -4.2 -4.3 -4.2 -4.2
— Family Tax Benefit — cease fortnightly payments for recipients who do not lodge tax returns 41.6 13.3 121.1 -115.5 -137.6
— Fraud and compliance — assessments to verify income or assets - -32.4 -64.6 -86.4 -97.1
— Fraud and Compliance — Commonwealth Seniors Health Card compliance reviews - 7.7 -7.6 -9.5 -11.3
— Partner Service Pension — cease payment to married partners who are separated but not divorced - 4.7 10.2 11.6 13.0
— Pilot program addressing undeclared business income and assets — cessation -0.5 - - - -
— Tuggeranong Office Park — facilities management -1.1 -0.6 - - -
Social inclusion agenda -0.3 -0.5 -0.5 -0.5 -0.5
Social Security Agreement with Finland - 1.0 -0.2 -1.0 -1.1
Social Security Agreement with Poland - 1.2 -2.3 -3.9 -6.5
Supporting Local Communities - 0.7 - - -
Temporary Protection visa — abolition - -2.4 -2.2 -2.5 -3.4
Visa places for Iraqi locally engaged employees - 1.7 2.6 2.7 2.8
Volunteer Grants program — expansion to help with fuel costs - 5.0 5.0 5.0 -
Volunteer Management Program (Voluntary Work Initiative) — continuation of funding - - - - -
Welfare Payments Reform — child protection pilot and school attendance and enrolment pilot 2.0 14.4 - - -
Portfolio total 1,804.9 2,406.9 2,316.9 2,205.2 2,347.5

*  The nature of the measure is such that a reliable estimate cannot be provided.

..  Not zero, but rounded to zero.

-   Nil.

nfp  not for publication.

  1. This statement reports all measures since the 2007‑08 MYEFO. All financial impacts are changes since the 2007 Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook. A minus sign before an estimate indicates a reduction in expenses, no sign before an estimate indicates increased expenses.
  2. Details of these measures can be found under Part 1: Revenue measures.
  3. Details of these measures can be found under Part 3: Capital measures.
  4. Measures may not add due to rounding.

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