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Budget Measures Budget Paper No. 2 2019-20

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FOREWORD

Budget Paper No. 2, Budget Measures 2019-20 ensures that the Budget Papers provide comprehensive information on all Government decisions that involve changes to its revenue, expense and investing activities since the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2018-19.

Budget Paper No. 2 comprises three parts:

• Part 1: Revenue Measures

• Part 2: Expense Measures

• Part 3: Capital Measures

Revenue measures are defined as those measures that affect taxation or non-taxation revenues (on a Government Finance Statistics basis).

Expense measures are defined as those measures that affect expenses (on a Government Finance Statistics basis).

Capital measures are defined as those measures that affect net capital investment, defined as the change in non-financial assets. Capital measures that fall outside of this definition, such as equity injections or loans used for purposes other than investment in non-financial assets, are shown as having a zero impact on the fiscal balance.

Notes

(a) The following definitions are used in this Budget Paper:

- ‘real’ means adjusted for the effect of inflation;

- real growth in expenses is calculated using the consumer price index (CPI) as the deflator;

- the Budget year refers to 2019-20, while the forward years refer to 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23; and

- one billion is equal to one thousand million.

(b) Figures in tables and generally in the text have been rounded. Discrepancies in tables between totals and sums of components are due to rounding.

- estimates under $100,000 are rounded to the nearest thousand;

- estimates $100,000 and over are generally rounded to the nearest tenth of a million; and

- estimates midway between rounding points are rounded up.

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(c) For the budget balance, a negative sign indicates a deficit while no sign indicates a surplus.

(d) The following notations are used:

- nil

na not applicable

.. not zero, but rounded to zero

$m millions of dollars

$b billions of dollars

nfp not for publication

COAG Council of Australian Governments

AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time

AEST Australian Eastern Standard Time

NEC/nec not elsewhere classified

* The nature of this measure is such that a reliable estimate

cannot be provided.

(e) The Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory are referred to as ‘the Territories’. References to the ‘States’ or ‘each State’ include the Territories. The following abbreviations are used for the names of the States, where appropriate:

NSW New South Wales

VIC Victoria

QLD Queensland

WA Western Australia

SA South Australia

TAS Tasmania

ACT Australian Capital Territory

NT Northern Territory

(f) In this paper, the term ‘Commonwealth’ refers to the Commonwealth of Australia. The term is used when referring to the legal entity of the Commonwealth of Australia.

The term ‘Australian Government’ is used when referring to the Government and the decisions and activities made by the Government on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Budget Paper No. 2, Budget Measures 2019-20 is one of a series of Budget Papers that provides information to supplement the Budget Speech. A full list of the series is printed on the inside cover of this paper.

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CONTENTS

Part 1: Revenue Measures ............................................................................. 1

Agriculture and Water Resources ................................................................................... 5

Communications and the Arts ......................................................................................... 6

Education and Training ................................................................................................... 7

Finance ............................................................................................................................ 8

Home Affairs .................................................................................................................... 9

Treasury ........................................................................................................................ 13

Part 2: Expense Measures ........................................................................... 27

Agriculture and Water Resources ................................................................................. 46

Attorney-General’s ........................................................................................................ 50

Communications and the Arts ....................................................................................... 56

Cross Portfolio ............................................................................................................... 61

Defence ......................................................................................................................... 66

Education and Training ................................................................................................. 67

Environment and Energy ............................................................................................... 73

Finance .......................................................................................................................... 80

Foreign Affairs and Trade ............................................................................................. 81

Health ............................................................................................................................ 84

Home Affairs ................................................................................................................ 109

Industry, Innovation and Science ................................................................................ 120

Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities ....................................................... 123

Jobs and Small Business ............................................................................................ 147

Prime Minister and Cabinet ......................................................................................... 153

Social Services ............................................................................................................ 157

Treasury ...................................................................................................................... 165

Veterans’ Affairs .......................................................................................................... 172

Part 3: Capital Measures ............................................................................ 177

Defence ....................................................................................................................... 183

Finance ........................................................................................................................ 184

Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities ....................................................... 185

Parliament ................................................................................................................... 186

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Table of measures by portfolio

Part 1: Revenue Measures ........................................................................................... 1

Agriculture and Water Resources ............................................................................... 5

Biosecurity imports levy — revised start date ................................................................. 5

Primary Industries — changes to agricultural production levy ........................................ 5

Communications and the Arts ..................................................................................... 6

Regional Broadband Scheme — amendments ............................................................... 6

Education and Training ................................................................................................ 7

Higher Education Loan Program ─ partial cost recovery delay ...................................... 7

Finance ........................................................................................................................... 8

Establish the Emergency Response Fund ...................................................................... 8

Expansion of the Commonwealth Divestment Program ................................................. 8

Home Affairs .................................................................................................................. 9

Australia-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement ................................................................. 9

Extension of Temporary Graduate visa period for regional graduates ........................... 9 Increasing Work and Holiday Visa Cap for Indonesia ................................................... 10

Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement ...................... 10 Migration Program — improving economic outcomes for Secondary Skilled Migrants ................................................................................................................. 11

Migration Program — reducing the planning level ........................................................ 11

Visa Application Charge — exemption for INAS Games .............................................. 12

Visa Application Charge — exemption for T20 World Cup ........................................... 12

Visa Application Charge — uplift ................................................................................... 12

Treasury ....................................................................................................................... 13

Black Economy — strengthening the Australian Business Number system ................. 13 Increasing and expanding access to the instant asset write-off ................................... 14

Indirect Tax Concession Scheme — diplomatic, consular and international organisation concessions ...................................................................................... 15

International Tax — signing the Australia-Israel Tax Treaty ......................................... 16

International Tax — updating the list of information exchange countries ..................... 16 Lower taxes for hard-working Australians: Building on the Personal Income Tax Plan ................................................................................................................ 17

Luxury Car Tax — increased refunds for eligible primary producers and tourism operators ................................................................................................... 18

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package — tax treatment of qualifying grants ..................................................................................................................... 19

Personal Income Tax — increasing the Medicare levy low-income thresholds ............ 19 Philanthropy — extending deductible gift recipient status to Men’s Sheds and Women’s Sheds .................................................................................................... 20

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Philanthropy — updates to the list of specifically listed deductible gift recipients ............................................................................................................... 20

Protecting Your Super Package — amendment ........................................................... 21

Protecting Your Super Package — putting members’ interests first ............................. 21 Queensland storms — tax treatment of payments to primary producers ..................... 22 Superannuation — improving flexibility for older Australians ........................................ 22

Superannuation — permanent tax relief for merging superannuation funds ................ 23 Superannuation — reducing red tape for superannuation funds .................................. 23

Tax Integrity — clarifying the operation of the hybrid mismatch rules .......................... 24 Tax Integrity — extension and expansion of the ATO Tax Avoidance Taskforce on Large Corporates, Multinationals and High Wealth Individuals .............................................................................................................. 24

Tax Integrity — further consultation on amendments to Division 7A ............................ 25 Tax Integrity — increasing engagement and on-time payment of tax and superannuation liabilities ....................................................................................... 25

Part 2: Expense Measures .......................................................................................... 27

Agriculture and Water Resources ............................................................................. 46

Agriculture Stewardship Package ................................................................................. 46

Beef Australia 2021 ....................................................................................................... 46

Concessional Treatment for the Forced Sale of Livestock under the Farm Household Allowance Program ............................................................................. 46

Dairy Code of Conduct .................................................................................................. 47

Enhancing Australia’s Agricultural Trade ...................................................................... 47

National Agricultural Workforce Strategy ...................................................................... 48

National Drought Map and Indicators............................................................................ 48

National Leadership for Agricultural Innovation ............................................................ 48

Red Imported Fire Ants Eradication Program — acceleration ...................................... 49

Attorney-General’s ...................................................................................................... 50

Commonwealth Integrity Commission........................................................................... 50

Expensive Commonwealth Criminal Cases Fund — additional funding ....................... 51 Family Advocacy and Support Services — Dedicated Men’s Support Workers ........... 51 Federal Court of Australia — additional resourcing ...................................................... 52

National museum and memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse ............................................................................................... 52

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner — additional resourcing ............... 53 Postal Industry Ombudsman — additional funding ....................................................... 53

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability ......................................................................................................... 54

Single National Mechanism for Commonwealth Legal Assistance ............................... 55 Strengthening Counter-Fraud Arrangements ................................................................ 55

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Communications and the Arts ................................................................................... 56

Amplifying Australia’s Voice in the Pacific .................................................................... 56

Bundanon Trust Art Centre ........................................................................................... 56

Consumer Safeguards — targeted measures .............................................................. 56

Guaranteeing Australia’s Public Broadcasters — funding for the ABC and SBS........................................................................................................................ 57

Improving Connectivity in the Western Australian Grainbelt Region — feasibility study ...................................................................................................... 57

National Collecting Institutions — capital works funding............................................... 58

National Library of Australia — Digitisation Fund ......................................................... 58

Office of the eSafety Commissioner — Online Safety Grants Program ....................... 58 Stronger Regional Connectivity Package ..................................................................... 59

Support for Tasmanian Tourism .................................................................................... 59

Support for the Australian Music Industry ..................................................................... 60

Cross Portfolio ............................................................................................................ 61

Increasing Analytical Capabilities.................................................................................. 61

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package ................................................................ 62

Population Package ...................................................................................................... 64

Defence ........................................................................................................................ 66

Offering Choice in Australian Defence Force Superannuation Scheme ....................... 66 Whole-of-Government — Cyber Uplift for Federal Government Systems and for the 2019 Federal Election ................................................................................ 66

Education and Training .............................................................................................. 67

Child Care System Improvements ................................................................................ 67

Local School Community Fund ..................................................................................... 67

National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education — further extension .............................................................................. 67

School Funding — initiatives to support students and teachers ................................... 68

Skills Package — delivering skills for today and tomorrow ........................................... 69

Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory — establishment ......................................... 70

Trades Recognition Australia — full cost recovery ....................................................... 71

VET Student Loans — increase in loan limit for aviation courses ................................ 71

Environment and Energy ............................................................................................ 73

Bureau of Meteorology — additional radars and rain gauges ...................................... 73

Climate Solutions Package ........................................................................................... 73

Harry Butler Environmental Education Centre .............................................................. 75

National Centre for Coasts, Environment and Climate ................................................. 75

Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Research............................................. 75

Practical Environment Restoration ................................................................................ 76

Securing Tourism and Jobs in Kakadu ......................................................................... 77

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Supporting Reliable Energy Infrastructure .................................................................... 78

Sydney Harbour Federation Trust ................................................................................. 79

Finance ......................................................................................................................... 80

Australian Electoral Commission — polling place technology and upgrade of ICT infrastructure ................................................................................................... 80

Foreign Affairs and Trade .......................................................................................... 81

Approved Destination Status Arrangements between Australia and China ................. 81 Australia’s Indo-Pacific Engagement — enhanced engagement in Asia ...................... 81 Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific — additional resources ............................................................................................................... 82

Enhancing National Tourism Icons ............................................................................... 82

Establishment of an Australian Trade and Defence Office in West Jerusalem ............ 83 Supporting Australian Exports ....................................................................................... 83

Health ........................................................................................................................... 84

Changes to the Continuous Glucose Monitoring Program............................................ 84

Child Dental Benefits Schedule — three year extension .............................................. 84

Establishment of a Centralised Donor Milk Bank Service ............................................. 84

Fighting Cancer — additional infrastructure and services ............................................ 85

Fighting Cancer — McGrath Foundation Breast Care Nurses ..................................... 85

Fighting Cancer — Prostate Cancer Nurses Program — continuation and expansion .............................................................................................................. 86

Guaranteeing Medicare — improved access to diagnostic imaging ............................. 86 Guaranteeing Medicare — improving quality and safety through stronger compliance ............................................................................................................ 87

Guaranteeing Medicare — improving transparency of out-of-pocket costs .................. 87 Guaranteeing Medicare — Medicare Benefits Schedule Review — response to Taskforce recommendations ............................................................................. 88

Guaranteeing Medicare — operational costs of Cardiac, Breast, Hip Fracture and Trauma Registries .......................................................................................... 88

Guaranteeing Medicare — strengthening primary care ................................................ 89

Health Star Rating System ............................................................................................ 90

Implementation of the National Strategies for Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections ......................................................................... 91

Implementation of Recommendations of the Third Review of the National Gene Technology Scheme .................................................................................... 91

Implementing Sport 2030 .............................................................................................. 92

Improving Access to Medicines — Life Saving Drugs Program ................................... 94

Improving Access to Medicines — National Medical Stockpile — improved operations .............................................................................................................. 94

Improving Access to Medicines — Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — new and amended listings............................................................................................. 95

Improving Access to Medicines — Stoma Appliance Scheme — new listings ............. 96 Improving Access to Medicines — supporting community pharmacy ........................... 96

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Investing in Health and Medical Research — Channel Nine Queensland Telethon ................................................................................................................. 97

Investing in Health and Medical Research — fighting diabetes .................................... 97

Investing in Health and Medical Research — Health and Medical Research Office ..................................................................................................................... 98

Investing in Health and Medical Research — Lowitja Institute ..................................... 98

Investing in Health and Medical Research — research infrastructure .......................... 98 Investing in Health and Medical Research — Medical Research Future Fund — Ten Year Investment Plan ................................................................................ 99

More Choices for a Longer Life — Commonwealth Home Support Programme Funding Arrangements — extension ............................................... 101

More Choices for a Longer Life — improving the quality, safety and accessibility of aged care services ...................................................................... 101

My Health Record — continuation .............................................................................. 103

Prioritising Mental Health — caring for our community ............................................... 103

Prioritising Mental Health — Early Psychosis Youth Services .................................... 105

Prioritising Mental Health — national headspace network ......................................... 105

Prioritising Mental Health — natural disaster assistance ............................................ 106

Private Health Insurance Reforms — information campaign ...................................... 106

Supporting Australians living with epilepsy ................................................................. 106

Supporting Our Hospitals — additional infrastructure and services ........................... 107 Supporting Our Hospitals — Community Health and Hospitals Program ................... 107 Supporting Our Hospitals — National Health Funding Body ...................................... 108

Home Affairs .............................................................................................................. 109

AUSTRAC — Fintel Alliance ....................................................................................... 109

Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners ................................................................. 109

Border Security Assistance for Fiji .............................................................................. 110

Confiscated Assets Account ....................................................................................... 110

Counter-Terrorism Financing Conference 2019 ......................................................... 110

Countering Foreign Interference ................................................................................. 111

Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements — funding for Northern Queensland floods ............................................................................................... 111

National Disaster Risk Information Capability Pilot ..................................................... 112

National Public Register of Child Sex Offenders ........................................................ 113

National Security Agencies — additional resourcing .................................................. 113

Natural Disaster Resilience Funding ........................................................................... 114

New Regional Visas — Population Package .............................................................. 114

Regional Cooperation Arrangement............................................................................ 115

Regional Processing Arrangements — Christmas Island ........................................... 115

Regional Processing Arrangements — Independent Health Advice Panel ................ 116 Safer Communities Fund ............................................................................................ 116

Social Cohesion Package — community engagement initiatives ............................... 117 Whole of Government Drug Strategy .......................................................................... 118

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Industry, Innovation and Science ............................................................................ 120

Expanding Questacon’s Education Outreach ............................................................. 120

Improving STEM Gender Equity in Australia .............................................................. 120

Industry Programs — efficiencies ............................................................................... 120

Making Innovation Games National ............................................................................ 121

Space Infrastructure Fund ........................................................................................... 121

Strengthening the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation ........... 122 Thermochemical Conversion Technology Facility ...................................................... 122

Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities .................................................. 123

Adelaide City Deal ....................................................................................................... 123

Airport Building Control and Environmental Officer Services — additional funding ................................................................................................................. 124

Albury Wodonga Regional Deal .................................................................................. 124

Assistance for Farmers and Farm Communities in Drought — additional funding ................................................................................................................. 124

Barkly Regional Deal ................................................................................................... 125

Building Better Regions Fund — round four ............................................................... 125

Community Development Grants Programme — additional projects ......................... 126 Establishment of the North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority ..................... 126 Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal — storm recovery ................................ 127 Geelong City Deal — additional funding ..................................................................... 127

Hinkler Regional Deal ................................................................................................. 128

Hobart City Deal .......................................................................................................... 128

Improving road safety .................................................................................................. 129

Indian Ocean Territories — economic diversification .................................................. 130

Infrastructure Investment Program — Australian Capital Territory infrastructure investments ................................................................................... 131

Infrastructure Investment Program — New South Wales infrastructure investments ......................................................................................................... 131

Infrastructure Investment Program — Northern Territory infrastructure investments ......................................................................................................... 133

Infrastructure Investment Program — Princes Highway ............................................. 134

Infrastructure Investment Program — Queensland infrastructure investments .......... 134 Infrastructure Investment Program — Road Safety and Upgrade Package ............... 136 Infrastructure Investment Program — Roads of Strategic Importance — next priorities ............................................................................................................... 137

Infrastructure Investment Program — South Australian infrastructure investment ........................................................................................................... 137

Infrastructure Investment Program — Supporting Regional Rail — Business Cases................................................................................................................... 139

Infrastructure Investment Program — Tasmanian infrastructure investments............ 139 Infrastructure Investment Program — Urban Congestion Fund — next priorities ............................................................................................................... 140

Infrastructure Investment Program — Victorian infrastructure investments ............... 141

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Infrastructure Investment Program — Western Australian infrastructure investments ......................................................................................................... 143

Land Transport Infrastructure — Enhanced Commonwealth Communication ........... 144 Local Government Financial Assistance Grants — prepayment ................................ 144 National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy — additional funding ............................. 145 Norfolk Island — additional funding ............................................................................ 145

Regional Airports Program — establishment .............................................................. 146

Stronger Communities Programme — round five ....................................................... 146

Women in Aviation ...................................................................................................... 146

Jobs and Small Business ......................................................................................... 147

Addressing Sham Contracting .................................................................................... 147

Australian Small Business Advisory Services Northern Australia Tourism Initiative — extension .......................................................................................... 147

Better Targeting of Support for Refugees ................................................................... 147

Fair Work Commission — appointment of additional Members .................................. 148 Harvest Labour Services — reforms to encourage Australian jobseekers to take up seasonal work ......................................................................................... 149

New Employment Services Model — pilot and transitional arrangements ................. 149 Protecting Vulnerable Workers — National Labour Hire Registration Scheme and other measures ............................................................................................. 150

Seasonal Worker Programme — pilot to address regional workforce shortages ............................................................................................................. 151

Workplace Advice Service — expansion .................................................................... 152

Prime Minister and Cabinet ...................................................................................... 153

Australia Day — additional support ............................................................................. 153

Closing the Gap refresh — Indigenous Youth Education Package ............................ 153 Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples — Co-design process ............................................................................................... 154

Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity ....................................... 155

Indigenous Suicide Prevention Initiatives ................................................................... 155

National Office for Child Safety — additional funding ................................................. 156

Remote Housing in South Australia ............................................................................ 156

Social Impact Investing ............................................................................................... 156

Social Services .......................................................................................................... 157

Australian Disability Enterprises — additional support ............................................... 157

Building Social Cohesion for Newly Arrived Migrants ................................................. 157

Cashless Debit Card — further extension and expansion .......................................... 157

Changing the Social Security Income Assessment Model.......................................... 158

Energy Assistance Payment ....................................................................................... 159

Establishing the National Centre for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse .............. 159 Extending Family Tax Benefit to ABSTUDY recipients aged 16 and over who study away from home ........................................................................................ 159

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Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to reduce violence against women and their children ................................................................................................................ 160

Increasing workforce participation for young adults with Down syndrome ................. 162 Integrated Carer Support Service — additional support for young carers .................. 162 Mutual Understanding, Support, Tolerance, Engagement and Respect Initiative — additional funding ............................................................................. 163

National Disability Insurance Scheme — transitioning to full Scheme ....................... 163 Social Impact Investing — payment by outcomes trials.............................................. 163

Treasury ..................................................................................................................... 165

Australian Bureau of Statistics — 2021 Census — additional funding ....................... 165 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Agriculture Unit — continuation ......................................................................................................... 165

Australian Energy Regulator — resourcing for new and expanded functions ............ 165 Commercial Construction Unit — additional funding .................................................. 165

Commonwealth Grants Commission — ICT strategy and transformation .................. 166 Electronic Invoicing Adoption ...................................................................................... 166

Government Response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry ................................. 167 Helping Small Business Grow — supporting small businesses with tax disputes ............................................................................................................... 168

Improving Audit Quality ............................................................................................... 169

Reducing costs for super industry by including superannuation release authorities in electronic SuperStream Rollover standard .................................... 169

Single Touch Payroll — expansion ............................................................................. 170

Strengthening Adoption of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct .......................... 170 Superannuation Complaints Tribunal — completion of casework .............................. 171 Superannuation Consumer Advocate ......................................................................... 171

Veterans’ Affairs ........................................................................................................ 172

Assistance for veterans prescribed anti-malarial medications .................................... 172 Commemoration of Australians who served overseas in World War I ........................ 172 Improved Access to Health Care for Australian Civilian Surgical and Medical Team members who worked in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972 ..................... 172

Partner Service Pensions — eligibility alignment ........................................................ 173

Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — new and amended listings ........... 173 Supporting Veterans ................................................................................................... 174

Veteran Centric Reform — putting veterans and their families first ............................ 174

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Part 3: Capital Measures .......................................................................................... 177

Defence ...................................................................................................................... 183

Additional funding to support Defence Capability ....................................................... 183

Finance ....................................................................................................................... 184

Australian Naval Infrastructure Pty Ltd — additional equity injection ......................... 184

Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities .................................................. 185

Moorebank Intermodal Company — equity injection .................................................. 185

Parliament .................................................................................................................. 186

Parliamentary Departments — additional funding ...................................................... 186

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Part 1: Revenue Measures

Table 1: Revenue measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO (a)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

AGRICULTURE AND WATER RESOURCES

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

Biosecurity imports levy — revised start date - -20.0 - - -

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) - -3.6 -8.8 -4.4 5.1

Primary Industries — changes to agricultural production levy(b) - -2.9 -2.9 -2.9 -2.9

Portfolio total - -26.5 -11.7 -7.3 2.2

ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S

Administrative Appeals Tribunal

Helping Small Business Grow — supporting small businesses with tax disputes(b) 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3

Portfolio total 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3

COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Consumer Safeguards — targeted measures(b)(c) - - 3.1 2.7 1.4

Regional Broadband Scheme — amendments(b) - -2.6 -2.6 -2.7 -2.7

Portfolio total - -2.6 0.5 .. -1.4

CROSS PORTFOLIO

Various Agencies

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) * * * * *

Portfolio total * * * * *

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Department of Education and Training

Closing the Gap refresh — Indigenous Youth Education Package(b) - .. -0.1 -0.1 -0.2

Higher Education Loan Program ─ partial cost recovery delay .. -3.5 - - -

Trades Recognition Australia — full cost recovery(b) 8.9 25.8 29.7 34.2 34.2

VET Student Loans — increase in loan limit for aviation courses(b)(c) - 4.3 9.5 11.1 13.0

Portfolio total 8.9 26.6 39.1 45.1 46.9

ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

Department of the Environment and Energy

Climate Solutions Package(b)(c) - - - 25.3 25.3

Portfolio total - - - 25.3 25.3

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Table 1: Revenue measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

FINANCE

Department of Finance

Establish the Emergency Response Fund(b) - 116.1 191.0 200.1 217.7

National Disability Insurance Scheme — transitioning to full Scheme(b) - - - - -

Portfolio total - 116.1 191.0 200.1 217.7

HEALTH

Department of Health

Guaranteeing Medicare — improving quality and safety through stronger compliance(b)(c) - - - - -

Improving Access to Medicines — Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — new and amended listings(b) nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Portfolio total nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

HOME AFFAIRS

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre

AUSTRAC — Fintel Alliance(b)(c) - 5.2 4.5 7.7 7.4

Department of Home Affairs

Australia-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement - -10.0 -10.0 -10.0 -10.0

Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners(b)(c) - .. .. .. -1.0

Extension of Temporary Graduate visa period for regional graduates(b)(c) - - - 1.5 2.5

Increasing Work and Holiday Visa Cap for Indonesia(b) - 0.6 1.5 1.9 2.2

Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement - - - - -

Migration Program — reducing the planning level - - - - -

New Regional Visas — Population Package(b)(c) - - - -0.5 0.7

Visa Application Charge — exemption for INAS Games - -0.3 - - -

Visa Application Charge — exemption for T20 World Cup - -0.5 -0.8 - -

Visa Application Charge — uplift - - - - -

Portfolio total - -5.0 -4.8 0.6 1.8

INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND SCIENCE

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

Expanding Questacon's Education Outreach(b) - 0.2 0.2 0.2 -

Implementing Sport 2030(b)(c) - - - - -

Portfolio total - 0.2 0.2 0.2 -

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Table 1: Revenue measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

JOBS AND SMALL BUSINESS

Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity

Protecting Vulnerable Workers — National Labour Hire Registration Scheme and other measures(b)(c) - 2.4 5.3 3.7 3.6

Portfolio total - 2.4 5.3 3.7 3.6

PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET

North Queensland Livestock Industry Recovery Agency

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) - 46.8 48.1 49.5 -

Portfolio total - 46.8 48.1 49.5 -

TREASURY

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

Government Response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry(b)(c) - 20.9 21.6 21.7 20.3

Superannuation Complaints Tribunal — completion of casework(b) - - 2.1 0.1 0.1

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

Government Response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry(b)(c) - - 40.5 122.2 128.5

Australian Taxation Office

Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners(b)(c) - -2.0 -6.0 -12.0 -17.0

Black Economy — strengthening the Australian Business Number system(b)(c) - - 5.0 10.0 10.0

Extension of Temporary Graduate visa period for regional graduates(b)(c) - - - 4.0 13.5

Increasing and expanding access to the instant asset write-off - -200.0 -500.0 50.0 250.0

Increasing Work and Holiday Visa Cap for Indonesia(b) - 3.3 10.0 15.0 17.7

Indirect Tax Concession Scheme — diplomatic, consular and international organisation concessions(b) -1.8 .. .. .. ..

International Tax — signing the Australia-Israel Tax Treaty - - * * *

International Tax — updating the list of information exchange countries - * * * *

Lower taxes for hard-working Australians: Building on the Personal Income Tax Plan - -750.0 -700.0 250.0 -4,540.0 Luxury Car Tax — increased refunds for eligible primary producers and tourism

operators - -2.0 -3.0 -3.0 -3.0

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Table 1: Revenue measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

TREASURY (continued)

Migration Program — improving economic outcomes for Secondary Skilled Migrants(b)(c) - * * * *

Migration Program — reducing the planning level - - - - -

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package — tax treatment of qualifying grants - - - - -

Personal Income Tax — increasing the Medicare levy low-income thresholds - -100.0 -50.0 -50.0 -50.0

Philanthropy — extending deductible gift recipient status to Men's Sheds and Women's Sheds - - - -3.0 -5.0

Philanthropy — updates to the list of specifically listed deductible gift recipients - - .. .. -0.1

Protecting Your Super Package — amendment(b) - -173.0 63.0 -18.0 -11.0

Protecting Your Super Package — putting members' interests first(b) - -38.0 -2.0 -2.0 -2.0

Queensland storms — tax treatment of payments to primary producers - - - - -

Superannuation — improving flexibility for older Australians - - -10.0 -25.0 -40.0

Superannuation — permanent tax relief for merging superannuation funds - - * * *

Superannuation — reducing red tape for superannuation funds - - - - -

Tax Integrity — clarifying the operation of the hybrid mismatch rules - .. .. .. ..

Tax Integrity — extension and expansion of the ATO Tax Avoidance Taskforce on Large Corporates, Multinationals and High Wealth Individuals(b)(c) - 175.5 1,226.4 1,553.6 1,668.0

Tax Integrity — further consultation on amendments to Division 7A - * * * *

Tax Integrity — increasing engagement and on-time payment of tax and superannuation liabilities(b) - - - - -

Portfolio total -1.8 -1,065.3 97.6 1,913.7 -2,560.0

Decisions taken but not yet announced(d) 43.4 87.6 12.5 12.0 12.0

Total impact of revenue measures(e) 50.6 -819.4 378.0 2,243.2 -2,251.5

* 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. (a) A minus sign before an estimate indicates a reduction in revenue, no sign before an estimate indicates a gain in revenue. (b) These measures can also be found in the expense measures summary table. (c) These measures can also be found in the capital measures summary table. (d) Includes the impact of measures that are not for publication (nfp). (e) Measures may not add due to rounding.

Agriculture and Water Resources

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AGRICULTURE AND WATER RESOURCES

Biosecurity imports levy — revised start date

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- -20.0 - - -

The Government will change the start date of the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Agriculture, Food and Biosecurity — biosecurity imports levy from 1 July 2019 to 1 September 2019. This change will allow an industry steering committee to make recommendations to the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources on the design and implementation of the levy. This change is estimated to reduce revenue by $20.0 million over the forward estimates period.

Further information can be found in the press releases of 24 February 2019 and 5 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources.

Primary Industries — changes to agricultural production levy

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- -2.9 -2.9 -2.9 -2.9

Related expense ($m)

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- -2.9 -2.9 -2.9 -2.9

From 1 July 2019, the Government will decrease the Emergency Plant Pest Response component of the banana levy from 0.75 of a cent per kilogram to zero, in consultation with the Australian Banana Growers’ Council. This component of the banana levy funded the costs paid by the Government on behalf of the industry in relation to the 2013 emergency response to banana freckle in the Northern Territory. This measure is estimated to have no budget impact over the forward estimates period.

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COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS

Regional Broadband Scheme — amendments

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Communications and Media Authority - -2.6 -2.6 -2.7 -2.7

Related expense ($m)

Department of Communications and the Arts - -2.6 -2.6 -2.7 -2.7

The Government is revising its 2018-19 MYEFO measure Regional Broadband Scheme — delay to start date (RBS). The Government will reduce the cap on the RBS charge from $10.00 to $7.10 a month (indexed yearly to the CPI) and provide a new five year exemption from the RBS for the first 55,000 greenfield premises activated on certain carriers’ networks. Under this measure, the Government will also place an obligation on NBN Co to provide public mapping data to be made available on the Government’s NationalMap.

This measure is estimated to have a negligible cost to the budget over the forward estimates period.

Education and Training

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Higher Education Loan Program ─ partial cost recovery delay

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Education and Training

.. -3.5 - - -

The Government will delay the introduction of partial cost recovery arrangements for the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) to provide additional time for the sector to prepare for the new arrangements. The new arrangements will now commence from 1 January 2020 instead of 1 January 2019.

The measure is estimated to reduce revenue by $3.6 million over four years from 2018-19.

Further information on the partial cost recovery arrangements can be found in the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Higher Education Loan Program — partial cost recovery.

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FINANCE Establish the Emergency Response Fund Revenue ($m) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Finance - 116.1 191.0 200.1 217.7

Related expense ($m)

Department of Finance - 17.5 18.4 19.2 20.2

Department of Home Affairs - - - - -

Total — Expense - 17.5 18.4 19.2 20.2

The Government will revise its Fund arrangements to establish the Emergency Response Fund (the Fund) from 1 October 2019, to fund natural disaster recovery and response initiatives above and beyond existing state and federal programs.

The Fund will be established through legislation as a Commonwealth Investment Fund and will be managed by the Future Fund Board of Guardians, to provide a sustainable source of funding for recovery from catastrophic natural disasters. The initial size of the Fund will be approximately $3.9 billion, reflecting the transfer of uncommitted funds currently in the dormant Education Investment Fund.

The Government would make available up to $150 million per annum from the Fund from 2019-20 to 2023-24 following a significant and catastrophic natural disaster. The Fund will only be drawn down in this way where the Government determines there is a need for additional support beyond existing national disaster response programs.

The Government will develop a funding plan, setting out a consistent and transparent approach to funding projects across Australia.

The Government will also not proceed with the 2016-17 Budget measure titled National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Savings Fund. This measure is no longer required as the Government’s positive budget position means that future funding for the NDIS has been secured.

Expansion of the Commonwealth Divestment Program

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Finance nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Related expense ($m)

Department of Finance nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Related capital ($m)

Department of Finance nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

The Government will divest surplus land currently owned by the Department of Finance over two years from 2019-20 to further rationalise the Commonwealth’s property portfolio in the Australian Capital Territory.

The financials for this measure are not for publication (nfp) due to commercial-in- confidence sensitivities.

Home Affairs

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HOME AFFAIRS

Australia-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs - -10.0 -10.0 -10.0 -10.0

On 26 March 2019, the governments of Australia and Hong Kong signed the Australia-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement (A-HKFTA). Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, and is able to enter into its own trade agreements. This agreement ensures a tariff rate of zero on all Australian exports to Hong Kong and eliminates tariffs on imports from Hong Kong. This measure is estimated to reduce revenue by $40.0 million over the forward estimates period.

The A-HKFTA also provides regulatory certainty for Australian businesses by providing new rules to facilitate trade.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 26 March 2019 issued by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment.

Extension of Temporary Graduate visa period for regional graduates

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - - 4.0 13.5

Department of Home Affairs - - - 1.5 2.5

Total — Revenue - - - 5.5 16.0

Related expense ($m)

Department of Home Affairs - 0.5 - - -

Department of the Treasury - - - 1.0 3.5

Total — Expense - 0.5 - 1.0 3.5

Related capital ($m)

Department of Home Affairs - 2.5 - - -

From November 2021, international students will be able to apply for an additional year on a second post-study work visa if they complete a higher education or postgraduate qualification in a regional area, and live in a regional area while holding a Temporary Graduate (subclass 485) visa. This measure is estimated to have a gain to the budget of $14.0 million over the forward estimates period.

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Increasing Work and Holiday Visa Cap for Indonesia

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - 3.3 10.0 15.0 17.7

Department of Home Affairs - 0.6 1.5 1.9 2.2

Total — Revenue - 3.9 11.5 16.9 19.9

Related expense ($m)

Department of the Treasury - 0.9 2.6 3.7 4.4

Department of Home Affairs - .. 0.1 0.1 0.1

Total — Expense - 0.9 2.7 3.8 4.5

The Government will seek to increase the annual cap for Work and Holiday (subclass 462) visas available to Indonesian citizens from 2,500 to 5,000 over a six year period from 2019-20 to 2024-25. This measure is estimated to have a gain to the budget of $40.4 million over the forward estimates period.

This is part of the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.

Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs - - - - -

On 4 March 2019, the governments of Australia and Indonesia signed the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA). The agreement will foster economic cooperation between Australia and Indonesia and create new opportunities for Australian businesses. It will reduce non-tariff barriers to trade and over time will allow 99 per cent of Australian goods exports to enter Indonesia duty free or with significantly improved preferential arrangements.

This measure is estimated to have no revenue impact over the forward estimates period, as the tariff reductions are in line with existing tariff reductions Australia committed to under the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA).

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 4 March 2019 issued by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment.

Home Affairs

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Migration Program — improving economic outcomes for Secondary Skilled Migrants

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - * * * *

Related expense ($m)

Department of Home Affairs - 0.1 - - -

Related capital ($m)

Department of Home Affairs - 0.2 - - -

From November 2019, the Skilled Migration Points Test will be adjusted to award additional points to primary applicants when their partner has competent English but does not meet the existing requirements for skilled partner points. Single applicants will also be awarded additional points to ensure they are not disadvantaged. This measure is estimated to result in an unquantifiable increase in revenue over the forward estimates period. The Department of Home Affairs will be provided with $0.3 million in 2019-20 to implement this measure.

The Skilled Migration Points Test currently awards additional points to primary applicants where their partner is under 45 years old, has competent English, and has a skilled occupation applicable for the visa subclass and stream they have been invited to apply for.

These changes will prioritise applicants who are single or whose partner can demonstrate competent English and therefore have the best potential to participate in the Australian labour market.

Migration Program — reducing the planning level

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - - - -

Department of Home Affairs - - - - -

Total — Revenue - - - - -

The Government will reduce the planning level of the Migration Program from 190,000 to 160,000 places for four years from 2019-20.

The outlook for net overseas migration, and consequential impacts on revenue and expenses, are updated in line with program delivery each Budget update. Therefore, this measure has no further budget impact.

For the 2019-20 Migration Program, there will be 108,682 places in the Skill stream, 47,732 places in the Family stream, with a combined 3,586 places for Child and Special Eligibility streams.

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Visa Application Charge — exemption for INAS Games

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs - -0.3 - - -

The Government is waiving visa application charges for athletes and officials applying for a Temporary Activity (subclass 408) visa to participate in the 2019 INAS Global Games in Brisbane. The INAS Global Games is the world’s largest multi-sport event for athletes with an intellectual impairment. This measure is estimated to reduce revenue by $0.3 million over the forward estimates period.

Visa Application Charge — exemption for T20 World Cup

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs - -0.5 -0.8 - -

The Government is waiving visa application charges for competitors and officials participating in the International Cricket Council T20 World Cup in Australia in 2020. This measure is estimated to reduce revenue by $1.3 million over the forward estimates period.

Visa Application Charge — uplift

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs - - - - -

The Government is increasing the base visa application charge (VAC) for all visa subclasses, with the exception of the Visitor (subclass 600) visa, by 5.4 per cent from 1 July 2019. There will be no increase to second instalment VACs. This measure is estimated to increase revenue by $275.0 million over the period from 2018-19 to 2021-22. Provision for this revenue increase has already been included in the forward estimates.

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TREASURY

Black Economy — strengthening the Australian Business Number system

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - 5.0 10.0 10.0

Related expense ($m)

Australian Taxation Office - - 0.2 0.6 0.2

Related capital ($m)

Australian Taxation Office - - - 1.8 -

The Government will strengthen the Australian Business Number (ABN) system to disrupt black economy behaviour by requiring ABN holders:

• from 1 July 2021, with an income tax return obligation, to lodge their income tax return; and

• from 1 July 2022, to confirm the accuracy of their details on the Australian Business Register annually.

The new conditions will make ABN holders more accountable for meeting their government obligations, while minimising the regulatory impact on businesses doing the right thing.

This measure is estimated to have a gain to the budget of $22.2 million in fiscal balance terms over the forward estimates period. In underlying cash balance terms this measure is estimated to have a gain to the budget of $4.7 million over the forward estimates period. The difference between the fiscal and cash amounts arises as there is a delay between revenue liabilities raised on tax returns lodged by ABN holders and the subsequent cash collections.

Currently, ABN holders are able to retain their ABN regardless whether they are meeting their income tax return lodgement obligation or the obligation to update their ABN details.

See also the related 2018-19 Budget measure Black Economy Taskforce — consulting on a new regulatory framework for Australian Business Numbers.

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Increasing and expanding access to the instant asset write-off

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - -200.0 -500.0 50.0 250.0

From 7:30 PM (AEDT) on 2 April 2019 (Budget night), the Government is increasing and expanding access to the instant asset write-off.

The Government is increasing the instant asset write-off threshold from $25,000 to $30,000. The threshold applies on a per asset basis, so eligible businesses can instantly write off multiple assets.

Medium sized businesses will now also have access to the instant asset write-off.

The increased and expanded instant asset write-off will apply from Budget night until 30 June 2020.

Small businesses (with aggregated annual turnover of less than $10 million) will be able to immediately deduct purchases of eligible assets costing less than $30,000 that are first used, or installed ready for use, from Budget night to 30 June 2020.

Medium sized businesses (with aggregated annual turnover of $10 million or more, but less than $50 million) will also be able to immediately deduct purchases of eligible assets costing less than $30,000 that are first used, or installed ready for use, from Budget night to 30 June 2020. Medium sized businesses must also acquire these assets after Budget night to be eligible as they have previously not had access to the instant asset write-off.

This measure is estimated to reduce revenue by $400.0 million over the forward estimates period.

This measure will improve cash flow for small and medium sized businesses, providing a boost to business activity and investment.

Small businesses can continue to place assets which cannot be immediately deducted into the small business simplified depreciation pool (the pool) and depreciate those assets at 15 per cent in the first income year and 30 per cent each income year thereafter. The pool balance can also be immediately deducted if it is less than the applicable instant asset write-off threshold at the end of the income year (including existing pools). The current ‘lock out’ laws for the simplified depreciation rules (these prevent small businesses from re-entering the simplified depreciation regime for five years if they opt out) will continue to be suspended until 30 June 2020.

Medium sized businesses do not have access to the small business pooling rules and will instead continue to depreciate assets costing $30,000 or more (which cannot be immediately deducted) in accordance with the existing depreciating asset provisions of the tax law.

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Arrangements prior to Budget night

The Government has already legislated a $20,000 instant asset write-off for small businesses. Eligible small businesses can already immediately deduct purchases of eligible assets costing less than $20,000 that are first used or installed ready for use by 30 June 2019.

On 29 January 2019, the Government announced that it would increase the instant asset write-off threshold for small businesses from $20,000 to $25,000 and extend the instant asset write-off for an additional 12 months to 30 June 2020.

These changes interact with the changes being announced as part of Budget. This means that, when legislated, small businesses will be able to immediately deduct purchases of eligible assets costing less than $25,000 that are first used or installed ready for use over the period from 29 January 2019 until Budget night.

The changes announced on 29 January 2019 were estimated to reduce revenue by $750.0 million over the period from 2018-19 to 2021-22. Provision for this revenue reduction has already been included in the forward estimates.

Indirect Tax Concession Scheme — diplomatic, consular and international organisation concessions

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office -1.8 .. .. .. ..

Related expense ($m)

Department of the Treasury -1.8 .. .. .. ..

The Government has granted or extended access to refunds of indirect tax (including GST, fuel and alcohol taxes) under the Indirect Tax Concession Scheme (ITCS). New access to refunds will be granted to the diplomatic and consular representations of Sudan in Australia. The Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna will be granted upgraded access to the ITCS. The Government has extended ITCS access for Laos, Mauritius and Samoa to include construction and renovation relating to their current and future diplomatic missions and consular posts.

This measure is estimated to reduce revenue by $1.8 million, and decrease GST payments to the states and territories by $1.8 million, over the forward estimates period.

Each of these changes has effect from a time specified by the

Minister for Foreign Affairs. Consistent with international practice, these concessions are reciprocal and reviewed periodically.

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International Tax — signing the Australia-Israel Tax Treaty

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - * * *

On 28 March 2019, the Government signed the Convention between the Government of Australia and the Government of the State of Israel for the Elimination of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income and the Prevention of Tax Evasion and Avoidance. The Government will also introduce amendments to the International Tax Agreements Act 1953 to give the treaty force of law in Australia. That Act will also be amended to provide that certain income covered by a tax treaty is deemed to have an Australian source. This measure is estimated to have an unquantifiable reduction in revenue over the forward estimates period.

The Convention relieves double taxation, lowers withholding tax rates (on interest, dividend and royalty payments) and improves certainty for taxpayers in both countries.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 28 March 2019 issued by the Treasurer and the Assistant Treasurer.

International Tax — updating the list of information exchange countries

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - * * * *

The Government will update the list of countries whose residents are eligible to access a reduced withholding tax rate of 15 per cent, instead of the default rate of 30 per cent, on certain distributions from Australian Managed Investment Trusts (MITs). To be listed, countries must have established the legal relationship enabling them to share taxpayer information with Australia. This update will add Curaçao, Lebanon, Nauru, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to join 114 other jurisdictions already on the list. These new jurisdictions have entered into information sharing agreements since the previous update in 2018. The updated list will be effective from 1 January 2020. This measure is estimated to have an unquantifiable impact on revenue over the forward estimates period.

This measure supports the operation of the MIT withholding tax system by providing the reduced withholding tax rate only to residents of countries that enter into effective information sharing agreements with Australia. These agreements form an important part of Australia’s commitment to safeguard against offshore tax avoidance and evasion.

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Lower taxes for hard-working Australians: Building on the Personal Income Tax Plan

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - -750.0 -700.0 250.0 -4,540.0

The Government will lower taxes for individuals by building on its legislated Personal Income Tax Plan (the plan). The changes to the plan will provide immediate relief to low- and middle-income earners, support consumption growth and ease cost of living pressures. It will also introduce structural changes to provide more reward for effort and to maintain our international competiveness.

This measure will reduce revenue by $19.5 billion over the forward estimates period, comprising: $3.5 billion in 2019-20; $3.7 billion in 2020-21; $3.8 billion in 2021-22; and $8.6 billion in 2022-23.

It will reduce revenue by $158 billion over the period from 2019-20 to 2029-30.

A provision for the impact of this measure was included in the 2018-19 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, including $13.8 billion over the forward estimates: $2.7 billion in 2019-20; $3.0 billion in 2020-21; $4.0 billion in 2021-22; and $4.1 billion in 2022-23.

Consequently, the net reduction to revenue over the forward estimates is $5.7 billion, most of which occurs in the 2022-23 financial year.

Immediate relief to low- and middle-income earners

The Government will provide a further reduction in tax provided through the non-refundable low and middle income tax offset (LMITO). Under the changes, the reduction in tax provided by LMITO will increase from a maximum amount of $530 to $1,080 per annum and the base amount will increase from $200 to $255 per annum for the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 income years.

The LMITO will now provide a reduction in tax of up to $255 for taxpayers with a taxable income of $37,000 or less. Between taxable incomes of $37,000 and $48,000, the value of the offset will increase at a rate of 7.5 cents per dollar to the maximum offset of $1,080. Taxpayers with taxable incomes between $48,000 and $90,000 will be eligible for the maximum offset of $1,080. From taxable incomes of $90,000 to $126,000 the offset will phase out at a rate of 3 cents per dollar.

The LMITO will be received on assessment after individuals lodge their tax returns for the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 income years. This will ensure that taxpayers receive a benefit when they lodge returns from 1 July 2019.

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Locking in the benefits of lower taxes

From 1 July 2022, the Government will increase the top threshold of the 19 per cent personal income tax bracket from $41,000, as legislated under the plan, to $45,000.

From 1 July 2022, the Government will increase the low income tax offset (LITO) from $645, as legislated under the plan, to $700. The increased LITO will be withdrawn at a rate of 5 cents per dollar between taxable incomes of $37,500 and $45,000, instead of at 6.5 cents per dollar between taxable incomes of $37,000 and $41,000 as previously legislated under the plan. LITO will then be withdrawn at a rate of 1.5 cents per dollar between taxable incomes of $45,000 and $66,667.

Together, the increase to the top threshold of the 19 per cent personal income tax bracket and the changes to LITO will lock-in the reduction in tax provided by LMITO when LMITO is removed.

Further structural changes to the tax system to deliver lower taxes

From 1 July 2024-25, the Government will reduce the 32.5 per cent marginal tax rate to 30 per cent. This will more closely align the middle tax bracket of the personal income tax system with corporate tax rates, improving incentives for working Australians. In 2024-25 an entire tax bracket, the 37 per cent tax bracket will be abolished under the Government’s already legislated plan. With these changes, by 2024-25 around 94 per cent of Australian taxpayers are projected to face a marginal tax rate of 30 per cent or less. The tax system will be simpler, reward effort and maintain progressivity.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure Personal Income Tax Plan.

Luxury Car Tax — increased refunds for eligible primary producers and tourism operators

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - -2.0 -3.0 -3.0 -3.0

The Government will provide further relief to farmers and tourism operators by amending the luxury car tax refund arrangements. For vehicles acquired on or after 1 July 2019, eligible primary producers and tourism operators will be able to apply for a refund of any luxury car tax paid, up to a maximum of $10,000. This measure is estimated to reduce revenue by $11.0 million over the forward estimates period.

Currently, primary producers and tourism operators may be eligible for a partial refund of the luxury car tax paid on eligible four-wheel or all-wheel drive cars, up to a maximum refund of $3,000. The eligibility criteria and types of vehicles eligible for the current partial refund will remain unchanged under the new refund arrangements.

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North Queensland Flood Recovery Package — tax treatment of qualifying grants

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - - - -

The Government will provide an income tax exemption for qualifying grants made to primary producers, small businesses and non-profit organisations affected by the North Queensland floods. Qualifying grants include Category C and Category D grants provided under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements 2018, and grants provided under the On-Farm Restocking and Replanting Grants Program and the On-Farm Infrastructure Grants Program. This measure is estimated to have no revenue impact over the forward estimates period.

The exemption will apply where the grants relate to the monsoonal trough, which produced flooding that started on or after 25 January 2019 and continued into February 2019. The grants will be made non-assessable non-exempt income for tax purposes.

See also the related expense measures North Queensland Flood Recovery Package and Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements — Funding for Northern Queensland Floods.

Personal Income Tax — increasing the Medicare levy low-income thresholds

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - -100.0 -50.0 -50.0 -50.0

The Government will increase the Medicare levy low-income thresholds for singles, families, and seniors and pensioners from the 2018-19 income year. The increases take account of recent movements in the CPI so that low-income taxpayers generally continue to be exempted from paying the Medicare levy. This measure is estimated to reduce revenue by $250.0 million over the forward estimates period.

The threshold for singles will be increased from $21,980 to $22,398. The family threshold will be increased from $37,089 to $37,794. For single seniors and pensioners, the threshold will be increased from $34,758 to $35,418. The family threshold for seniors and pensioners will be increased from $48,385 to $49,304. For each dependent child or student, the family income thresholds increase by a further $3,471, instead of the previous amount of $3,406.

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Philanthropy — extending deductible gift recipient status to Men’s Sheds and Women’s Sheds

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - - -3.0 -5.0

The Government will establish a deductible gift recipient (DGR) general category to enable Men’s Sheds and Women’s Sheds to access DGR status from 1 July 2020. The measure is estimated to reduce revenue by $8.0 million over the forward estimates period.

Taxpayers may claim an income tax deduction for gifts of money or property of $2 or more to DGRs. Ensuring that Men’s Sheds and Women’s Sheds can become DGRs will further encourage philanthropy and support for the not-for-profit sector.

Philanthropy — updates to the list of specifically listed deductible gift recipients

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - .. .. -0.1

Since the 2018-19 MYEFO, the following organisations have been approved as specifically-listed deductible gift recipients from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2024:

• Australian Academy of Law;

• China Matters Limited;

• Foundation Broken Hill Limited;

• Motherless Daughters Australia Limited;

• Superannuation Consumers Centre Limited; and

• The Headstone Project (Tasmania) Incorporated.

Taxpayers may claim an income tax deduction for gifts of money or property to these organisations of $2 or more. The measure is estimated to reduce revenue by $0.1 million over the forward estimates period.

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Protecting Your Super Package — amendment

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - -173.0 63.0 -18.0 -11.0

Related expense ($m)

Department of Human Services

- -0.1 -0.1 -0.1 -0.1

Department of Jobs and Small Business - -0.4 -1.4 -1.7 -1.8

Department of Social Services - -0.4 -0.7 -0.7 -0.8

Australian Taxation Office - -15.0 6.0 -1.0 -1.0

Total — Expense - -15.9 3.9 -3.5 -3.7

The Government agreed to amendments to the Protecting Your Super Package announced in the 2018-19 Budget to:

• extend to 16 months the period after which an account that has not received any contribution is considered inactive;

• expand the definition of when an account is considered active for the ATO-led consolidation regime; and

• require the ATO to consolidate to an active account, where possible, within 28 days of receipt.

This measure is estimated to reduce the fiscal balance by $119.8 million over the forward estimates period.

Protecting Your Super Package — putting members’ interests first

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - -38.0 -2.0 -2.0 -2.0

Related expense ($m)

Department of Jobs and Small Business - .. 0.1 .. ..

Department of Human Services

- -0.2 - - -

Department of Social Services - -2.2 - - -

Total — Expense - -2.3 0.1 .. ..

The Government will delay the start date for ensuring insurance within superannuation is only offered on an opt-in basis for accounts with balances of less than $6,000 and new accounts belonging to members under the age of 25 years to 1 October 2019. This measure is estimated to reduce the fiscal balance by $41.8 million over the forward estimates period.

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These changes (currently before Parliament) will protect the retirement savings of young people and those with low balances by ensuring their superannuation is not unnecessarily eroded by premiums on insurance policies they do not need or are not aware of. The changes will also reduce the incidence of duplicated cover so that individuals are not paying for multiple insurance policies, which they may not be able to claim on. These changes will not prevent anyone who wants insurance from being able to obtain it — low balance and young members will still be able to opt-in to insurance cover within superannuation.

Queensland storms — tax treatment of payments to primary producers

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - - - -

The Government will treat as exempt income payments to primary producers in the Fassifern Valley, Queensland affected by storm damage in October 2018. The tax treatment relates to payments distributed to affected taxpayers through a grant totalling $1.0 million to the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal, working with the Salvation Army and a local community panel. This measure is estimated to have no revenue impact over the forward estimates period.

See also the related expense measure Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal — storm recovery.

Superannuation — improving flexibility for older Australians

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - -10.0 -25.0 -40.0

The Government will allow voluntary superannuation contributions (both concessional and non-concessional) to be made by those aged 65 and 66 without meeting the work test from 1 July 2020. People aged 65 and 66 will also be able to make up to three years of non-concessional contributions under the bring-forward rule. Those up to and including age 74 will be able to receive spouse contributions, with those 65 and 66 no longer needing to meet a work test. This measure is estimated to reduce revenue by $75.0 million over the forward estimates period.

Currently, people aged 65 to 74 can only make voluntary superannuation contributions if they self-report as working a minimum of 40 hours over a 30 day period in the relevant financial year. Those aged 65 and over cannot access bring-forward arrangements and those aged 70 and over cannot receive spouse contributions. Aligning the work test with the eligibility age for the Age Pension (scheduled to reach 67 from 1 July 2023) and increasing the age limit for spouse contributions to 74 will give older Australians greater flexibility to save for retirement.

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Superannuation — permanent tax relief for merging superannuation funds

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - * * *

The Government will make permanent the current tax relief for merging superannuation funds that is due to expire on 1 July 2020. This measure is estimated to have an unquantifiable reduction in revenue over the forward estimates period.

Since December 2008, tax relief has been available for superannuation funds to transfer revenue and capital losses to a new merged fund, and to defer taxation consequences on gains and losses from revenue and capital assets.

The tax relief will be made permanent from 1 July 2020, ensuring superannuation fund member balances are not affected by tax when funds merge. It will remove tax as an impediment to mergers and facilitate industry consolidation, consistent with the recommendation of the Productivity Commission’s final report, Superannuation: Assessing Efficiency and Competitiveness. Consolidation would help address inefficiencies by reducing costs, managing risks and increasing scale, leading to improved retirement outcomes for members.

Superannuation — reducing red tape for superannuation funds

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - - - -

The Government will reduce costs and simplify reporting for superannuation funds by streamlining some administrative requirements for the calculation of exempt current pension income (ECPI).

The Government will allow superannuation fund trustees with interests in both the accumulation and retirement phases during an income year to choose their preferred method of calculating ECPI.

The Government will also remove a redundant requirement for superannuation funds to obtain an actuarial certificate when calculating ECPI using the proportionate method, where all members of the fund are fully in the retirement phase for all of the income year.

This measure will start on 1 July 2020 and is estimated to have no revenue impact over the forward estimates period.

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Tax Integrity — clarifying the operation of the hybrid mismatch rules

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - .. .. .. ..

The Government will make a number of minor amendments to Australia’s hybrid mismatch rules to clarify their operation. This measure will apply to income years commencing on or after 1 January 2019, with the exception of the amendments to the integrity rule, which will apply to income years commencing on or after 2 April 2019. This measure is estimated to have a negligible revenue impact over the forward estimates period.

The purpose of the hybrid mismatch rules is to prevent multinational corporations from exploiting differences in the tax treatment of an entity or instrument under the laws of two or more tax jurisdictions. Stipulating how the rules apply to MEC groups and trusts, limiting the meaning of foreign tax, and specifying that the integrity rule can apply where other provisions have applied will give greater certainty to taxpayers in complying with the rules.

Tax Integrity — extension and expansion of the ATO Tax Avoidance Taskforce on Large Corporates, Multinationals and High Wealth Individuals

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - 175.5 1,226.4 1,553.6 1,668.0

Related expense ($m)

Australian Taxation Office - 54.4 315.5 317.6 316.9

Department of the Treasury - - - - -

Total — Expense - 54.4 315.5 317.6 316.9

Related capital ($m)

Australian Taxation Office - 6.5 - - -

The Government will provide $1.0 billion over four years from 2019-20, including $6.5 million in capital funding, to the ATO to extend the operation of the Tax Avoidance Taskforce and to expand the Taskforce’s programs and market coverage. This measure is estimated to have a gain to the budget of $3.6 billion over the forward estimates period. In underlying cash balance terms this measure is estimated to have a gain to the budget of $2.0 billion over the forward estimates period. The difference between the fiscal and cash amounts arises as there is a delay between revenue liabilities raised as a result of the compliance activity and the subsequent cash collections.

The Taskforce undertakes compliance activities targeting multinationals, large public and private groups, trusts and high wealth individuals. This measure will allow the Taskforce to expand these activities, including increasing its scrutiny of specialist tax advisors and intermediaries that promote tax avoidance schemes and strategies.

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The Government has also provided $24.2 million in 2018-19 to the Department of the Treasury to conduct a communications campaign focused on improving the integrity of the Australian tax system. Funding for this has already been provided for by the Government.

Tax Integrity — further consultation on amendments to Division 7A

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - * * * *

The Government will defer the start date of the 2018-19 Budget measure, Tax Integrity — clarifying the operation of the Division 7A integrity rule, from 1 July 2019 to 1 July 2020. This measure is estimated to have an unquantifiable impact on revenue over the forward estimates period.

The Government issued a consultation paper in October 2018 seeking stakeholder views on the proposed implementation approach for the amendments to Division 7A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936. The Government received valuable feedback from stakeholders which highlighted that this is a complex area of the tax law and raised implementation issues that warrant further consideration.

Delaying the start date by 12 months will allow additional time to further consult with stakeholders on these issues and to refine the Government’s implementation approach, including to ensure appropriate transitional arrangements so taxpayers are not unfairly prejudiced.

Tax Integrity — increasing engagement and on-time payment of tax and superannuation liabilities

Revenue ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - - - -

Related expense ($m)

Department of the Treasury - 8.0 10.9 11.4 11.5

Australian Taxation Office - 7.9 10.7 11.6 11.8

Total — Expense - 15.9 21.6 23.0 23.3

The Government will provide $42.1 million over four years to the ATO to increase activities to recover unpaid tax and superannuation liabilities. These activities will focus on larger businesses and high wealth individuals to ensure on-time payment of their tax and superannuation liabilities. The measure will not extend to small businesses.

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This measure is estimated to have no revenue impact in fiscal balance terms over the forward estimates period as the debt liabilities have already been recognised. In underlying cash balance terms this measure is estimated to have a gain to the budget of $103.6 million over the forward estimates period. The measure is estimated to increase GST payments to the States and Territories by $41.8 million over the forward estimates period.

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Table 2: Expense measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO (a)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

AGRICULTURE AND WATER RESOURCES

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

Agriculture Stewardship Package - 5.0 10.3 10.3 8.5

Australia's Indo-Pacific Engagement — enhanced engagement in Asia(c) - - - - -

Beef Australia 2021 - 0.8 2.7 0.4 -

Commonwealth Integrity Commission(c) - -0.5 - - -

Dairy Code of Conduct - 0.1 0.2 -0.4 ..

Enhancing Australia's Agricultural Trade(c) - 5.7 8.3 8.3 6.0

National Agricultural Workforce Strategy - 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.4

National Drought Map and Indicators - 1.5 1.5 0.7 0.5

National Leadership for Agricultural Innovation - 1.0 1.4 0.5 -

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) - 60.6 60.6 - -

Primary Industries — changes to agricultural production levy(b) - -2.9 -2.9 -2.9 -2.9

Regional Investment Corporation

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) - 2.5 0.8 0.8 0.8

Portfolio total - 74.2 83.3 17.9 13.3

ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S

Administrative Appeals Tribunal

Cashless Debit Card — further extension and expansion - nfp nfp - -

Helping Small Business Grow — supporting small businesses with tax disputes(b) 1.3 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.8

Attorney-General's Department

Commonwealth Integrity Commission(c) - 1.5 1.1 1.1 1.3

Countering Foreign Interference(c) - 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2

Expensive Commonwealth Criminal Cases Fund — additional funding - 4.2 - - -

Family Advocacy and Support Services — Dedicated Men's Support Workers - - - - -

Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to reduce violence against women and their children - 1.2 0.7 0.7 -

National museum and memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse - 0.5 - - -

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability(c) 6.8 121.1 129.2 104.8 0.9

Single National Mechanism for Commonwealth Legal Assistance - - -83.5 -84.8 -86.3

Strengthening Counter-Fraud Arrangements(c) - 3.1 3.4 - -

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Table 2: Expense measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S (continued)

Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity

Commonwealth Integrity Commission(c) - 2.2 - - -

Commonwealth Integrity Commission

Commonwealth Integrity Commission - 12.5 22.0 29.9 30.0

Federal Court of Australia

Federal Court of Australia — additional resourcing(c) - 7.0 7.0 7.1 6.0

Office of Parliamentary Counsel

Government Response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry(b)(c) - 0.9 - - -

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

Guaranteeing Medicare — improving quality and safety through stronger compliance(b)(c) - - - - -

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner — additional resourcing(c) - 7.7 7.9 7.5 -

Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman

Commonwealth Integrity Commission(c) - - 0.3 0.3 0.3

Postal Industry Ombudsman — additional funding 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

Countering Foreign Interference(c) - 1.0 1.5 1.8 1.9

Portfolio total 8.9 167.5 94.4 73.2 -41.0

COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS

Australia Council

Support for the Australian Music Industry - 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Guaranteeing Australia's Public Broadcasters — funding for the ABC and SBS - 14.3 14.5 14.8 -

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Consumer Safeguards — targeted measures(b)(c) - 1.8 1.7 1.3 1.3

Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to reduce violence against women and their children - 1.4 1.3 1.3 -

Office of the eSafety Commissioner — Online Safety Grants Program - 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5

Department of Communications and the Arts

Amplifying Australia's Voice in the Pacific - - - - -

Bundanon Trust Art Centre - 6.0 8.0 8.0 -

Improving Connectivity in the Western Australian Grainbelt Region — feasibility study - 2.0 - - -

National Collecting Institutions — capital works funding - 8.0 - - -

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Table 2: Expense measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS (continued)

Regional Broadband Scheme — amendments(b) - -2.6 -2.6 -2.7 -2.7

Stronger Regional Connectivity Package - 30.1 29.9 - -

Support for Tasmanian Tourism - 1.5 - - -

Support for the Australian Music Industry - 2.2 7.4 7.1 7.1

National Library of Australia

National Library of Australia — Digitisation Fund - 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5

Special Broadcasting Service Corporation

Guaranteeing Australia's Public Broadcasters — funding for the ABC and SBS - 5.6 11.9 12.1 -

Portfolio total - 75.9 77.6 47.5 11.2

CROSS PORTFOLIO

Various Agencies

Increasing Analytical Capabilities * * * * *

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) * * * * *

Population Package(c) * * * * *

Portfolio total * * * * *

DEFENCE

Various Agencies

Whole-of-Government — Cyber Uplift for Federal Government Systems and for the 2019 Federal Election(c) nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Department of Defence

Expanding Questacon's Education Outreach(b) - -2.0 -2.1 -2.1 -

Increasing Analytical Capabilities - 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2

Offering Choice in Australian Defence Force Superannuation Scheme - - - - -

Portfolio total - -1.8 -1.9 -1.9 0.2

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Table 2: Expense measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Department of Education and Training

Child Care System Improvements(c) - 4.0 - - -

Closing the Gap refresh — Indigenous Youth Education Package(b) 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.6 63.6

Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to reduce violence against women and their children - 1.7 0.6 0.6 -

Local School Community Fund - 30.2 - - -

National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education — further extension - 1.3 3.6 - -

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) 3.0 - - - -

Population Package(c) - 1.1 -2.6 1.3 -0.5

School Funding — initiatives to support students and teachers - 6.8 5.3 4.3 3.3

Skills Package — delivering skills for today and tomorrow(c) -4.0 46.4 95.2 137.4 176.6

Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory — establishment - - - - -

Trades Recognition Australia — full cost recovery(b) 10.0 25.4 29.2 33.5 33.5

VET Student Loans — increase in loan limit for aviation courses(b)(c) - 1.2 2.3 2.5 2.5

Portfolio total 10.7 119.8 135.2 181.1 279.2

ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

Bureau of Meteorology

Barkly Regional Deal(c) - - - 0.2 0.5

Bureau of Meteorology — additional radars and rain gauges(c) - - - 0.6 2.2

Clean Energy Regulator

Climate Solutions Package(b)(c) - - 16.6 54.4 96.1

Department of the Environment and Energy

Climate Solutions Package(b)(c) - 24.9 51.1 8.6 5.4

Harry Butler Environmental Education Centre - 1.0 8.0 8.0 8.0

Hobart City Deal(c) - - - - -

National Centre for Coasts, Environment and Climate - 1.0 8.0 8.0 8.0

Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Research - - - - -

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Table 2: Expense measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY (continued)

Practical Environment Restoration - 51.8 26.6 25.0 25.0

Securing Tourism and Jobs in Kakadu(c) - - - - -

Supporting Reliable Energy Infrastructure 3.4 22.6 17.8 19.6 7.0

Sydney Harbour Federation Trust(c) - - - - -

Director of National Parks

Securing Tourism and Jobs in Kakadu(c) - - - - -

Portfolio total 3.4 101.2 128.0 124.5 152.3

FINANCE

Australian Electoral Commission

Australian Electoral Commission — polling place technology and upgrade of ICT infrastructure - 4.0 6.7 -11.2 -

Department of Finance

Australian Electoral Commission — polling place technology and upgrade of ICT infrastructure - 0.1 - - -

Climate Solutions Package(b)(c) - 2.3 0.7 0.7 0.7

Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity(c) - 0.1 - - -

Establish the Emergency Response Fund(b) - 17.5 18.4 19.2 20.2

Expansion of the Commonwealth Divestment Program(c) nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to reduce violence against women and their children - 0.1 - - -

National Disability Insurance Scheme — transitioning to full Scheme(b) - - - - -

Veteran Centric Reform — putting veterans and their families first(c) - 0.1 0.1 - -

Portfolio total nfp 24.2 25.8 8.7 20.9

FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE

Australian Trade and Investment Commission

Approved Destination Status Arrangements between Australia and China - - - - -

Australia's Indo-Pacific Engagement — enhanced engagement in Asia(c) - - - - -

Enhancing National Tourism Icons - 10.0 20.0 20.0 -

Establishment of an Australian Trade and Defence Office in West Jerusalem(c) 0.4 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9

Supporting Australian Exports - 21.0 20.0 20.0 -

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Table 2: Expense measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE (continued)

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Australia's Indo-Pacific Engagement — enhanced engagement in Asia(c) - - - - -

Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific — additional resources - 2.9 3.1 3.3 3.3

Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity(c) - - - - -

Countering Foreign Interference(c) - - - - -

Tourism Australia

Implementing Sport 2030(b)(c) - 2.0 3.0 - -

Portfolio total 0.4 36.7 46.9 44.1 4.2

HEALTH

Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission

More Choices for a Longer Life — improving the quality, safety and accessibility of aged care services(c) 1.9 6.5 2.7 0.8 0.8

Australian Digital Health Agency

My Health Record — continuation(c) - - - - -

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Guaranteeing Medicare — improving quality and safety through stronger compliance(b)(c) - - - - -

Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

Implementing Sport 2030(b)(c) - - - - -

Australian Sports Commission

Implementing Sport 2030(b)(c) 42.5 57.2 51.5 3.5 3.5

Department of Health

Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners(b)(c) - -9.6 -50.2 -103.6 -169.1

Changes to the Continuous Glucose Monitoring Program .. .. 0.1 0.1 0.1

Child Dental Benefits Schedule — three year extension - - - - -

Establishment of a Centralised Donor Milk Bank Service - - - - -

Fighting Cancer — additional infrastructure and services 9.0 7.8 13.5 9.1 8.9

Fighting Cancer — McGrath Foundation Breast Care Nurses - - - - -

Fighting Cancer — Prostate Cancer Nurses Program — continuation and expansion - - 4.9 5.8 6.8

Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to reduce violence against women and their children - 2.5 2.5 2.5 -

Guaranteeing Medicare — improved access to diagnostic imaging 7.9 31.4 52.6 90.1 126.4

Guaranteeing Medicare — improving quality and safety through stronger compliance(b)(c) - - - - -

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Table 2: Expense measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

HEALTH (continued)

Guaranteeing Medicare — improving transparency of out-of-pocket costs - 5.2 2.0 .. -

Guaranteeing Medicare — Medicare Benefits Schedule Review — response to Taskforce recommendations - 1.2 4.6 5.1 5.4

Guaranteeing Medicare — operational costs of Cardiac, Breast, Hip Fracture and Trauma Registries - - - - -

Guaranteeing Medicare — strengthening primary care 46.7 142.3 137.6 264.4 449.1

Health Star Rating System - - - - -

Implementation of National Strategies for Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections - 9.2 7.6 3.4 -

Implementation of the Recommendations of the Third Review of the National Gene Technology Scheme - 1.4 0.9 1.1 1.1

Implementing Sport 2030(b)(c) -2.8 9.6 10.8 1.0 1.0

Improved Access to Health Care for Australian Civilian Surgical and Medical Team members who worked in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972(c) - -0.6 .. - -

Improving Access to Medicines — Life Saving Drugs Program nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Improving Access to Medicines — National Medical Stockpile — improved operations - 2.3 5.1 4.7 4.9

Improving Access to Medicines — Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — new and amended listings(b) 45.7 95.8 13.6 13.3 14.1

Improving Access to Medicines — Stoma Appliance Scheme — new listings - .. .. .. ..

Improving Access to Medicines — supporting community pharmacy -85.0 -46.0 75.2 75.2 75.2

Investing in Health and Medical Research — Channel Nine Queensland Telethon 2.0 - - - -

Investing in Health and Medical Research — fighting diabetes - - - - -

Investing in Health and Medical Research — Health and Medical Research Office - - - - -

Investing in Health and Medical Research — Lowitja Institute - 4.0 4.0 2.0 -

Investing in Health and Medical Research — research infrastructure 10.0 - - 3.0 10.0

Investing in Health and Medical Research — Medical Research Future Fund — Ten Year Investment Plan 0.3 8.4 5.9 9.3 8.4

More Choices for a Longer Life — Commonwealth Home Support Programme Funding Arrangements — extension - - - - -

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Table 2: Expense measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

HEALTH (continued)

More Choices for a Longer Life — improving the quality, safety and accessibility of aged care services(c) 307.3 141.1 133.5 36.0 20.7

Prioritising Mental Health — caring for our community 3.6 11.4 37.0 34.6 46.3

Prioritising Mental Health — Early Psychosis Youth Services - - - - -

Prioritising Mental Health — national headspace network 13.9 16.7 34.3 42.6 45.9

Prioritising Mental Health — natural disaster assistance 2.1 2.6 0.4 0.4 -

Private Health Insurance Reforms — information campaign - - - - -

Supporting Australians living with epilepsy - 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0

Supporting Our Hospitals — additional infrastructure and services 4.6 1.7 3.6 6.6 6.6

Supporting Our Hospitals — Community Health and Hospitals Program -53.3 -9.8 -27.5 -37.0 -218.3

Supporting Veterans - -3.0 - - -

Whole of Government Drug Strategy(c) 0.8 4.7 5.0 1.6 1.7

National Health and Medical Research Council

Investing in Health and Medical Research — Medical Research Future Fund — Ten Year Investment Plan - - - - -

National Health Funding Body

Supporting Our Hospitals — National Health Funding Body - - 1.3 1.3 1.4

National Mental Health Commission

Prioritising Mental Health — caring for our community - 1.5 2.3 5.4 2.3

Professional Services Review

Guaranteeing Medicare — improving quality and safety through stronger compliance(b)(c) - - - - -

Portfolio total 357.1 500.6 540.0 487.3 458.2

HOME AFFAIRS

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

Commonwealth Integrity Commission(c) - -0.1 - - -

Confiscated Assets Account - - - - -

National Public Register of Child Sex Offenders(c) - 0.7 1.4 1.5 0.7

Whole of Government Drug Strategy(c) - 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8

Australian Federal Police

Confiscated Assets Account - - - - -

Countering Foreign Interference(c) - 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.7

National Security Agencies — additional resourcing(c) 33.0 17.0 65.4 162.5 184.1

Regional Processing Arrangements — Christmas Island(c) 1.8 - - - -

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Table 2: Expense measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

HOME AFFAIRS (continued)

Strengthening Counter-Fraud Arrangements(c) - 4.6 5.2 - -

Whole of Government Drug Strategy(c) - 30.0 30.5 32.0 31.2

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

Countering Foreign Interference(c) - 1.0 1.9 2.2 2.9

Increasing Analytical Capabilities - 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4

National Security Agencies — additional resourcing(c) - 40.9 - - -

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre

AUSTRAC — Fintel Alliance(b)(c) - 5.2 3.9 6.7 6.1

Commonwealth Integrity Commission(c) - -0.2 - - -

Department of Home Affairs

Border Security Assistance for Fiji(c) 1.1 1.7 1.3 0.4 -

Confiscated Assets Account - - - - -

Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity(c) - - - - -

Counter-Terrorism Financing Conference 2019 - 1.8 - - -

Establish the Emergency Response Fund(b) - - - - -

Extension of Temporary Graduate visa period for regional graduates(b)(c) - 0.5 - - -

Increasing Analytical Capabilities - 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8

Increasing Work and Holiday Visa Cap for Indonesia(b) - .. 0.1 0.1 0.1

Migration Program — improving economic outcomes for Secondary Skilled Migrants(b)(c) - 0.1 - - -

National Disaster Risk Information Capability Pilot - - - - -

Natural Disaster Resilience Funding - - - - -

New Regional Visas — Population Package(b)(c) 0.5 5.7 2.5 2.1 2.5

Regional Cooperation Arrangement - 39.5 - - -

Regional Processing Arrangements — Christmas Island(c) 148.6 23.7 - - -

Regional Processing Arrangements — Independent Health Advice Panel 8.0 - - - -

Safer Communities Fund - 26.4 9.6 9.6 12.6

Social Cohesion Package — community engagement initiatives 5.2 15.4 5.8 0.2 -

Whole of Government Drug Strategy(c) - 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.5

Portfolio total 198.2 222.1 135.7 225.4 248.4

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$m $m $m $m $m

INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND SCIENCE

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Strengthening the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation(c) - 23.5 0.9 0.1 -

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

Adelaide City Deal(c) - - - - -

Expanding Questacon's Education Outreach(b) - 4.9 5.1 5.1 -

Implementing Sport 2030(b)(c) - - - - -

Improving STEM Gender Equity in Australia - 1.0 1.1 1.2 ..

Industry Programs — efficiencies -5.0 - -1.0 -2.2 -5.7

Making Innovation Games National - 1.8 1.8 - -

Space Infrastructure Fund 0.2 -0.4 -3.4 3.6 -

Thermochemical Conversion Technology Facility nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Portfolio total -4.8 30.8 4.5 7.8 -5.7

INFRASTRUCTURE, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CITIES

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

Adelaide City Deal(c) - - - - -

Airport Building Control and Environmental Officer Services — additional funding - - - - -

Assistance for Farmers and Farm Communities in Drought — additional funding 5.0 15.2 - - -

Barkly Regional Deal(c) - - - - -

Building Better Regions Fund — round four - 39.7 108.3 48.3 9.9

Community Development Grants Programme — additional projects - 18.7 32.5 19.3 18.8

Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal — storm recovery - - - - -

Geelong City Deal — additional funding - - - - -

Hinkler Regional Deal - - - - -

Hobart City Deal(c) - - - - -

Implementing Sport 2030(b)(c) - 20.0 40.0 40.0 50.0

Improving road safety - 5.6 7.0 10.0 10.0

Indian Ocean Territories — economic diversification .. 0.7 0.1 0.1 0.1

Infrastructure Investment Program — Australian Capital Territory infrastructure investments - - - - -

Infrastructure Investment Program — New South Wales infrastructure investments - - - - -

Infrastructure Investment Program — Northern Territory infrastructure investments - - - - -

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$m $m $m $m $m

INFRASTRUCTURE, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CITIES (continued)

Infrastructure Investment Program — Princes Highway - - - - -

Infrastructure Investment Program — Queensland infrastructure investments - - - - -

Infrastructure Investment Program — Road Safety and Upgrade Package - 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Infrastructure Investment Program — Roads of Strategic Importance — next priorities - - - - -

Infrastructure Investment Program — South Australian infrastructure investment 40.0 - - - -

Infrastructure Investment Program — Supporting Regional Rail — Business Cases - 22.0 22.0 - -

Infrastructure Investment Program — Tasmanian infrastructure investments - - - - -

Infrastructure Investment Program — Urban Congestion Fund — next priorities - - - - -

Infrastructure Investment Program — Victorian infrastructure investments - - - - -

Infrastructure Investment Program — Western Australian infrastructure investments - - - - -

Land Transport Infrastructure — Enhanced Commonwealth Communication - 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

Local Government Financial Assistance Grants — prepayment 1,275.0 -1,275.0 - - -

National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy — additional funding - 6.2 6.7 0.5 0.5

Norfolk Island — additional funding - 4.2 4.2 - -

Population Package(c) - - - - -

Regional Airports Program — establishment - 10.0 35.0 35.0 20.0

Securing Tourism and Jobs in Kakadu(c) - - - - -

Stronger Communities Programme — round five - 26.4 0.4 - -

Supporting Reliable Energy Infrastructure - 1.9 - - -

Women in Aviation - - - - -

National Faster Rail Agency

Population Package - 4.0 3.5 3.5 3.5

North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority

Establishment of the North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority 0.4 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3

Portfolio total 1,320.4 -997.6 362.5 259.5 215.6

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$m $m $m $m $m

JOBS AND SMALL BUSINESS

Comcare

Improved Access to Health Care for Australian Civilian Surgical and Medical Team members who worked in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972(c) - - - - -

Department of Jobs and Small Business

Australian Small Business Advisory Services Northern Australia Tourism Initiative — extension - 0.8 - - -

Better Targeting of Support for Refugees(c) - -8.5 -21.6 -22.9 -25.4

Harvest Labour Services — reforms to encourage Australian jobseekers to take up seasonal work(c) - 1.2 7.1 8.3 6.8

Helping Small Business Grow — supporting small businesses with tax disputes(b) 0.9 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7

New Employment Services Model — pilot and transitional arrangements(c) 0.4 -20.8 -10.1 -50.5 -7.5

Protecting Your Super Package — amendment(b) - -0.4 -1.4 -1.7 -1.8

Protecting Your Super Package — putting members' interests first(b) - .. 0.1 .. ..

Seasonal Worker Programme — pilot to address regional workforce shortages 0.4 0.9 - - -

Skills Package — delivering skills for today and tomorrow(c) - .. - - -

Fair Work Commission

Fair Work Commission — appointment of additional Members - - - - -

Workplace Advice Service — expansion - - - - -

Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity

Addressing Sham Contracting - 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3

Protecting Vulnerable Workers — National Labour Hire Registration Scheme and other measures(b)(c) - 5.7 7.7 6.2 6.2

Seasonal Worker Programme — pilot to address regional workforce shortages 0.3 1.3 - - -

Portfolio total 1.9 -14.9 -13.2 -55.6 -16.6

PARLIAMENT

Department of Parliamentary Services

Parliamentary Departments — additional funding(c) - 3.0 0.2 0.2 0.2

Department of the House of Representatives

Parliamentary Departments — additional funding(c) - 0.9 - 0.8 -

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$m $m $m $m $m

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Parliamentary Budget Office

Parliamentary Departments — additional funding(c) - 0.6 0.7 2.0 2.0

Portfolio total - 4.5 0.9 2.9 2.1

PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Australia Day — additional support - 0.3 0.3 0.3 -

Barkly Regional Deal(c) - -2.0 -4.0 -2.5 -

Closing the Gap refresh — Indigenous Youth Education Package(b) - 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.8

Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples — Co-design process - - - - -

Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to reduce violence against women and their children -2.5 0.4 0.9 0.7 -

Indigenous Suicide Prevention Initiatives - 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3

National museum and memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse - 2.0 - - -

National Office for Child Safety — additional funding - 1.9 1.2 1.0 1.0

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) 2.7 - - - -

Remote Housing in South Australia - - - - -

Securing Tourism and Jobs in Kakadu(c) - - - - -

Social Impact Investing - 5.0 - - -

Digital Transformation Agency

Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity(c) - 6.5 - - -

North Queensland Livestock Industry Recovery Agency

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) - 28.3 7.3 7.1 6.9

Portfolio total 0.2 49.4 12.6 13.6 14.9

SOCIAL SERVICES

Department of Human Services

Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners(b)(c) - -0.1 -0.5 -1.1 -1.8

Better Targeting of Support for Refugees(c) .. 0.8 -0.2 -0.2 -0.2

Cashless Debit Card — further extension and expansion - nfp nfp - -

Changing the Social Security Income Assessment Model 1.2 20.3 8.7 .. -

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$m $m $m $m $m

SOCIAL SERVICES (continued)

Concessional Treatment for the Forced Sale of Livestock under the Farm Household Allowance Program 3.0 0.1 - - -

Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity(c) - 7.2 -9.8 - -

Electronic Invoicing Adoption 1.0 - - - -

Energy Assistance Payment 9.0 0.2 - - -

Extending Family Tax Benefit to ABSTUDY recipients aged 16 and over who study away from home 0.1 4.2 0.9 0.5 0.5

Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to reduce violence against women and their children - - - - -

Guaranteeing Medicare — improved access to diagnostic imaging .. 1.4 -0.4 -0.4 -0.4

Guaranteeing Medicare — improving quality and safety through stronger compliance(b)(c) - - - - -

Guaranteeing Medicare — Medicare Benefits Schedule Review — response to Taskforce recommendations - 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2

Improving Access to Medicines — Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — new and amended listings(b) 1.0 5.6 4.9 5.0 5.1

More Choices for a Longer Life — improving the quality, safety and accessibility of aged care services(c) - - - - -

New Employment Services Model — pilot and transitional arrangements(c) 1.4 1.2 0.2 0.2 0.4

New Regional Visas — Population Package(b)(c) 2.4 11.2 2.0 2.0 2.3

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) 0.2 - - - -

Protecting Your Super Package — amendment(b) - -0.1 -0.1 -0.1 -0.1

Protecting Your Super Package — putting members' interests first(b) - -0.2 - - -

Veteran Centric Reform — putting veterans and their families first(c) - 40.4 44.8 16.2 9.8

Department of Social Services

Australian Disability Enterprises — additional support - - - - -

Building Social Cohesion for Newly Arrived Migrants - 6.0 7.3 4.6 4.7

Cashless Debit Card — further extension and expansion - nfp nfp nfp nfp

Changing the Social Security Income Assessment Model - 0.2 -655.6 -706.8 -756.0

Energy Assistance Payment 257.1 0.7 - - -

Establishing the National Centre for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse - 2.3 4.7 5.0 4.6

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Table 2: Expense measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

SOCIAL SERVICES (continued)

Extending Family Tax Benefit to ABSTUDY recipients aged 16 and over who study away from home - 4.0 8.4 8.7 9.1

Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to reduce violence against women and their children - 66.7 113.9 69.5 -

Hobart City Deal(c) 3.0 27.0 - - -

Increasing workforce participation for young adults with Down syndrome - - - - -

Integrated Carer Support Service — additional support for young carers - 18.2 21.9 22.5 21.7

Mutual Understanding, Support, Tolerance, Engagement and Respect Initiative — additional funding 7.0 - - - -

New Regional Visas — Population Package(b)(c) 0.2 1.0 - - -

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) 0.5 - - - -

Protecting Your Super Package — amendment(b) - -0.4 -0.7 -0.7 -0.8

Protecting Your Super Package — putting members' interests first(b) - -2.2 - - -

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability(c) - 39.5 38.7 38.8 -

Single National Mechanism for Commonwealth Legal Assistance - - - - -

Social Impact Investing — payment by outcomes trials -0.5 3.0 1.6 4.1 5.9

National Disability Insurance Scheme Launch Transition Agency

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability(c) - 13.4 9.6 4.6 -

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability(c) - 1.4 1.4 1.4 -

Portfolio total 286.6 273.1 -398.2 -526.0 -694.9

TREASURY

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics — 2021 Census — additional funding - 31.2 32.0 -24.9 -

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Agriculture Unit — continuation - 2.7 - - -

Australian Energy Regulator — resourcing for new and expanded functions - 5.4 2.7 2.6 2.6

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$m $m $m $m $m

TREASURY (continued)

Commercial Construction Unit — additional funding - 1.3 2.7 2.7 2.7

Dairy Code of Conduct - 0.1 0.4 0.8 0.8

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

Government Response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry(b)(c) - 16.9 19.0 21.1 19.7

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

Government Response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry(b)(c) - 38.5 118.8 126.8 112.4

Superannuation Complaints Tribunal — completion of casework(b) - - 2.1 0.1 0.1

Australian Taxation Office

Black Economy — strengthening the Australian Business Number system(b)(c) - - 0.2 0.6 0.2

Closing the Gap refresh — Indigenous Youth Education Package(b) - 0.9 .. .. -

Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity(c) - 15.2 - - -

Electronic Invoicing Adoption -2.3 1.3 - - -

Helping Small Business Grow — supporting small businesses with tax disputes(b) 1.0 5.2 7.8 7.9 7.9

Increasing Analytical Capabilities 50.0 - - - -

Protecting Your Super Package — amendment(b) - -15.0 6.0 -1.0 -1.0

Reducing costs for super industry by including superannuation release authorities in electronic SuperStream Rollover standard(c) - - 4.5 1.2 1.2

Single Touch Payroll — expansion(c) - 20.2 13.3 10.5 9.3

Tax Integrity — extension and expansion of the ATO Tax Avoidance Taskforce on Large Corporates, Multinationals and High Wealth Individuals(b)(c) - 54.4 315.5 317.6 316.9

Tax Integrity — increasing engagement and on-time payment of tax and superannuation liabilities(b) - 7.9 10.7 11.6 11.8

Commonwealth Grants Commission

Commonwealth Grants Commission — ICT strategy and transformation(c) - 2.2 2.4 2.1 2.0

Department of the Treasury

Adelaide City Deal(c) - - - - -

Albury Wodonga Regional Deal - 3.2 - - -

Assistance for Farmers and Farm Communities in Drought — additional funding - -20.2 - - -

Barkly Regional Deal(c) - 5.7 9.8 6.9 -

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$m $m $m $m $m

TREASURY (continued)

Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners(b)(c) - .. -1.0 -2.0 -2.0

Climate Solutions Package(b)(c) 56.0 - - - -

Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements — funding for Northern Queensland floods 232.0 - - - -

Expensive Commonwealth Criminal Cases Fund — additional funding - - 4.3 4.4 4.4

Extension of Temporary Graduate visa period for regional graduates(b)(c) - - - 1.0 3.5

Family Advocacy and Support Services — Dedicated Men's Support Workers - 2.6 2.6 2.7 -

Fighting Cancer — additional infrastructure and services - - 4.5 - -

Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to reduce violence against women and their children - 2.7 2.8 2.8 -

Geelong City Deal — additional funding - - 10.0 10.0 10.0

Government Response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry(b)(c) 3.8 -7.8 3.5 4.3 2.2

Guaranteeing Medicare — improved access to diagnostic imaging - 3.0 - - -

Guaranteeing Medicare — strengthening primary care - 4.0 4.0 4.0 -

Hinkler Regional Deal - 11.0 15.0 20.0 25.0

Hobart City Deal(c) - - - - -

Increasing Analytical Capabilities - 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4

Increasing Work and Holiday Visa Cap for Indonesia(b) - 0.9 2.6 3.7 4.4

Indirect Tax Concession Scheme — diplomatic, consular and international organisation concessions(b) -1.8 .. .. .. ..

Infrastructure Investment Program — Australian Capital Territory infrastructure investments - - - 15.0 20.0

Infrastructure Investment Program — New South Wales infrastructure investments 25.0 25.0 32.0 49.0 135.5

Infrastructure Investment Program — Northern Territory infrastructure investments - 5.0 15.0 30.0 10.0

Infrastructure Investment Program — Princes Highway - - 20.0 30.0 50.0

Infrastructure Investment Program — Queensland infrastructure investments - - 5.0 105.0 203.0

Infrastructure Investment Program — Road Safety and Upgrade Package - 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Infrastructure Investment Program — Roads of Strategic Importance — next priorities - - 100.0 150.0 200.0

Infrastructure Investment Program — South Australian infrastructure investment - 27.8 - 14.4 52.6

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$m $m $m $m $m

TREASURY (continued)

Infrastructure Investment Program — Tasmanian infrastructure investments - - - 30.0 38.0

Infrastructure Investment Program — Urban Congestion Fund — next priorities - 400.0 400.0 400.0 400.0

Infrastructure Investment Program — Victorian infrastructure investments - 98.4 107.4 358.4 636.5

Infrastructure Investment Program — Western Australian infrastructure investments - 17.5 60.0 233.5 132.0

National Disability Insurance Scheme — transitioning to full Scheme(b) - - - - -

National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education — further extension - 134.9 314.7 - -

Natural Disaster Resilience Funding - - - - -

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) 300.0 1.2 1.0 1.0 1.0

Population Package(c) - 6.5 6.0 5.5 5.4

Practical Environment Restoration - 3.0 3.0 3.0 -

Prioritising Mental Health — caring for our community 5.0 - - - -

Red Imported Fire Ants Eradication Program — acceleration 5.2 6.5 6.5 -3.0 -3.0

Remote Housing in South Australia 37.5 - - - -

Securing Tourism and Jobs in Kakadu(c) - - - - -

Single National Mechanism for Commonwealth Legal Assistance - - 112.7 127.0 129.2

Skills Package — delivering skills for today and tomorrow(c) -134.8 -69.6 -106.4 -106.6 4.7

Strengthening Adoption of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct - - - - -

Superannuation Consumer Advocate - - - - -

Supporting Our Hospitals — additional infrastructure and services 11.6 3.4 4.0 13.0 23.0

Supporting Our Hospitals — Community Health and Hospitals Program 53.3 9.8 27.5 37.0 218.3

Tax Integrity — extension and expansion of the ATO Tax Avoidance Taskforce on Large Corporates, Multinationals and High Wealth Individuals(b)(c) - - - - -

Tax Integrity — increasing engagement and on-time payment of tax and superannuation liabilities(b) - 8.0 10.9 11.4 11.5

Office of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board

Improving Audit Quality - 0.3 0.3 0.3 -

Portfolio total 641.5 971.6 1,816.2 2,141.8 2,902.2

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$m $m $m $m $m

VETERANS' AFFAIRS

Department of Veterans' Affairs

Assistance for veterans prescribed anti-malarial medications - 0.7 0.7 0.4 0.2

Commemoration of Australians who served overseas in World War I - 3.5 - - -

Energy Assistance Payment 16.6 0.8 - - -

Guaranteeing Medicare — improved access to diagnostic imaging 0.1 0.2 -0.1 0.2 0.5

Guaranteeing Medicare — Medicare Benefits Schedule Review — response to Taskforce recommendations - .. 0.2 0.2 0.2

Guaranteeing Medicare — strengthening primary care - 0.9 0.4 0.4 0.4

Improved Access to Health Care for Australian Civilian Surgical and Medical Team members who worked in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972(c) - 4.8 .. - -

Improving Access to Medicines — Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — new and amended listings(b) .. -0.4 -0.7 -0.8 -0.8

Improving Access to Medicines — supporting community pharmacy - - 1.5 1.5 1.5

More Choices for a Longer Life — improving the quality, safety and accessibility of aged care services(c) 23.5 - - - -

Partner Service Pensions — eligibility alignment(c) - 1.3 1.5 1.4 1.4

Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — new and amended listings - .. .. .. ..

Single Touch Payroll — expansion(c) - 4.8 5.9 1.2 1.2

Supporting Veterans - 11.7 4.0 3.8 4.0

Veteran Centric Reform — putting veterans and their families first(c) - 28.7 -28.4 -71.5 -71.7

Portfolio total 40.2 57.0 -15.0 -63.2 -63.1

Decisions taken but not yet announced(d) -56.6 -188.9 -352.9 24.0 -2,665.5 Depreciation Expense - 0.7 6.8 7.9 8.1

Total impact of expense measures(e) 2,808.2 1,506.0 2,688.4 3,020.5 843.4 * 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. (a) A minus sign before an estimate indicates a reduction in expenses, no sign before an estimate indicates increased expenses. (b) These measures can also be found in the revenue measures summary table. (c) These measures can also be found in the capital measures summary table. (d) Includes the impact of measures that are not for publication (nfp). (e) Measures may not add due to rounding.

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AGRICULTURE AND WATER RESOURCES

Agriculture Stewardship Package

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- 5.0 10.3 10.3 8.5

The Government will provide $34.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to grow stewardship and biodiversity practices in the agriculture sector.

The measure includes funding of:

• $30.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to develop a national policy on agriculture biodiversity and trial a grants program to increase the adoption of biodiversity practices to deliver business production improvements and biodiversity outcomes; and

• $4.0 million over three years from 2019-20 to develop and trial a farm biodiversity certification scheme.

Further information can be found in the press release of 26 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources.

Beef Australia 2021

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- 0.8 2.7 0.4 -

The Government will provide $3.9 million over three years from 2019-20 to support the delivery of the Beef Australia 2021 national exposition to be held in Rockhampton, Queensland in May 2021.

Concessional Treatment for the Forced Sale of Livestock under the Farm Household Allowance Program

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Human Services 3.0 0.1 - - -

The Government will provide $3.1 million over two years from 2018-19 to exempt net income generated from the forced sale of livestock from Farm Household Allowance (FHA) payment assessment, when that income is invested into a Farm Management Deposit. This measure will ensure that FHA recipients who are destocking retain access to income support and are able to make long-term financial plans for their future.

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This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Assistance for Farmers and Farm Communities in Drought.

Dairy Code of Conduct

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

- 0.1 0.4 0.8 0.8

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- 0.1 0.2 -0.4 ..

Total — Expense - 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.8

The Government will provide $8.7 million over 11 years from 2019-20 to implement a mandatory code of conduct for the Australian dairy industry. The code will establish a set of rules for the conduct of business transactions between dairy farmers and larger processors. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will raise awareness of and monitor and enforce compliance with the code of conduct.

This measure will be partially offset by redirecting funding from the Rural Research and Development for Profit Program.

Enhancing Australia’s Agricultural Trade

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- 5.7 8.3 8.3 6.0

Related capital ($m)

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- 1.2 - - -

The Government will provide $29.4 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $2.6 million per year ongoing) for a package of measures to enhance agricultural exports and trade.

The package provides funding to increase industry access to export markets and capitalise on emerging export opportunities, including:

• $5.1 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $0.2 million per year ongoing) for actions to reduce the impact of policies other than tariffs that affect trade on agriculture and food exports;

• $11.4 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $2.4 million per year ongoing) to improve technical market access for horticulture exports, including by addressing pest and disease risk and import risk analysis;

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• $6.8 million over four years from 2019-20 to extend the Agricultural Trade and Market Access Cooperation program to assist Australian industry in breaking down technical barriers to trade for Australian agricultural exports, and to secure new and improved access to premium markets; and

• $6.1 million over four years from 2019-20 to extend the Package Assisting Small Exporters program to continue to support small exporters to overcome barriers to their participation in the export sector.

National Agricultural Workforce Strategy

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.4

The Government will provide $1.9 million over four years from 2019-20 to develop a national agricultural workforce strategy.

National Drought Map and Indicators

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- 1.5 1.5 0.7 0.5

The Government will provide $4.2 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $0.5 million per year ongoing) to improve and maintain the National Drought Map.

The National Drought Map brings together information on drought conditions and support measures across Australia to assist drought relief responses. Additional work to develop a drought indicators system will also be undertaken.

This measure delivers on the Government’s obligations under the intergovernmental National Drought Agreement.

National Leadership for Agricultural Innovation

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- 1.0 1.4 0.5 -

The Government will provide $2.9 million over three years from 2019-20 to drive national leadership for agricultural innovation.

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Red Imported Fire Ants Eradication Program — acceleration

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury 5.2 6.5 6.5 -3.0 -3.0

The Government will provide $18.3 million over three years from 2018-19, by bringing forward money from 2021-22 and beyond, from the National Partnership on Pest and Disease Preparedness and Response Programme, to support the immediate commencement of fire ant eradication in newly defined areas.

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ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S

Commonwealth Integrity Commission

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Commonwealth Integrity Commission

- 12.5 22.0 29.9 30.0

Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity - 2.2 - - -

Attorney-General’s Department - 1.5 1.1 1.1 1.3

Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman

- - 0.3 0.3 0.3

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission - -0.1 - - -

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre - -0.2 - - -

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- -0.5 - - -

Total — Expense - 15.4 23.4 31.3 31.6

Related capital ($m)

Commonwealth Integrity Commission

- 7.5 0.7 0.9 0.9

Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity

- 0.8 - - -

Total — Capital - 8.3 0.7 0.9 0.9

The Government will provide $104.5 million over four years from 2019-20 (including $10.0 million in capital funding over four years from 2019-20) to establish a Commonwealth Integrity Commission (CIC).

The Government will also provide:

• $2.2 million in 2019-20 (including $0.8 million in capital funding) for the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (ACLEI) to commence its reconstitution as the law enforcement integrity division of the CIC with a significantly expanded jurisdiction and to engage an Integrity Commissioner designate prior to the commencement date of the CIC;

• $4.9 million over four years from 2019-20 for the Attorney-General’s Department to support the CIC and to provide legal services assistance; and

• $1.0 million over three years from 2020-21 for the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman to oversee operations of the CIC.

The CIC will be an independent statutory agency, led by an Independent Integrity Commissioner and two deputy commissioners, tasked with the investigation of corruption in the public sector. It will also work with agencies to build resilience to

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corruption and bolster agency capability to detect, deter and investigate corrupt conduct.

The Government will also provide a further $0.7 million in 2019-20 for ACLEI to continue its oversight of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, and prescribed parts of the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. This will enable ACLEI to continue its activities until it is subsumed by the CIC.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 13 December 2018 issued by the Prime Minister and the Attorney-General.

Expensive Commonwealth Criminal Cases Fund — additional funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Attorney-General’s Department - 4.2 - - -

Department of the Treasury - - 4.3 4.4 4.4

Total — Expense - 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.4

The Government will provide an additional $17.3 million over four years from 2019-20 for the Expensive Commonwealth Criminal Cases Fund (ECCCF).

The ECCCF provides funding to reimburse legal aid commissions for the cost of representing defendants in serious, high-cost Commonwealth criminal prosecutions, to ensure that such prosecutions are not delayed by a lack of legal representation.

Family Advocacy and Support Services — Dedicated Men’s Support Workers

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - 2.6 2.6 2.7 -

Attorney-General’s Department - - - - -

Total — Expense - 2.6 2.6 2.7 -

The Government will provide $7.8 million over three years from 2019-20 to employ dedicated men’s social support workers in Family Advocacy and Support Services locations to work with male victims and alleged perpetrators of family violence involved in family law matters.

The employment of men’s social support workers is consistent with the objective of stopping violence at its source and enhancing the safety of victims.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Family Advocacy and Support Services and Legally Assisted and Culturally Appropriate Dispute Resolution — extension of services.

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Federal Court of Australia — additional resourcing

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Federal Court of Australia - 7.0 7.0 7.1 6.0

Related capital ($m)

Federal Court of Australia - 11.5 - - -

The Government will provide $43.9 million over five years from 2018-19 (including $11.8 million in capital funding over two years from 2018-19) to fund additional judges for the Federal Court of Australia (FCA).

This funding will provide FCA with additional resourcing for the expansion of its jurisdiction to include corporate crime. This expansion of jurisdiction was announced in the Government’s response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (the Royal Commission).

The funding will also allow FCA to maintain additional expertise in its employment and industrial relations jurisdiction.

Funding of $5.3 million for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the Government’s response to the Royal Commission’s recommendations announced by the Prime Minister and the Treasurer on 4 February 2019 and in the press release of 22 February 2019 issued by the Attorney-General.

National museum and memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

- 2.0 - - -

Attorney-General’s Department - 0.5 - - -

Total — Expense - 2.5 - - -

The Government will provide $2.5 million in 2019-20 for:

• stakeholder consultation on potential options and form of a national museum or memorial for victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse; and

• to undertake preparatory work for a national orphanage museum, including engagement with states and territories on funding arrangements.

Further information can be found in the National Policy Address to Parliament of 22 October 2018 by the Prime Minister.

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Office of the Australian Information Commissioner — additional resourcing

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

- 7.7 7.9 7.5 -

Related capital ($m)

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

- 2.0 - - -

The Government will provide $25.1 million over three years from 2019-20 (including capital funding of $2.0 million) to facilitate timely responses to privacy complaints and support strengthened enforcement action in relation to social media and other online platforms that breach privacy regulations.

Postal Industry Ombudsman — additional funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman

0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9

The Government will provide an additional $4.3 million over five years from 2018-19 to the Postal Industry Ombudsman (PIO) scheme.

The PIO scheme is a specialist function within the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman that investigates complaints about the provision of postal or similar services.

The costs of the PIO are recovered from fees collected by the Australian Communications and Media Authority from Australia Post and other industry operators.

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Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Attorney-General’s Department 6.8 121.1 129.2 104.8 0.9

Department of Social Services - 39.5 38.7 38.8 -

National Disability Insurance Scheme Launch Transition Agency

- 13.4 9.6 4.6 -

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

- 1.4 1.4 1.4 -

Total — Expense 6.8 175.4 179.0 149.6 0.9

Related capital ($m)

Attorney-General’s Department

0.5 15.7 - - -

Subject to the finalisation of the Terms of Reference and consideration by the Governor-General, the Government will provide $527.9 million over five years from 2018-19 (including $16.2 million in capital funding over two years from 2018-19) to support the work of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (the Royal Commission).

This funding includes $379.1 million over five years for the Attorney-General’s Department to run the Royal Commission, to provide legal assistance to witnesses and to represent the Commonwealth in the Royal Commission proceedings.

The Government will also provide $148.8 million over three years to the Department of Social Services, the National Disability Insurance Agency and the National Disability Insurance Scheme Quality and Safeguards Commission to provide counselling services and other support to people with disability in connection with their participation in the Royal Commission.

The Royal Commission will inquire into the following matters:

• what governments, institutions and the community should do to prevent, and better protect, people with disability from experiencing violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation;

• what governments, institutions and the community should do to encourage reporting and effective responses to violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability; and

• what should be done to promote a more inclusive society, which supports the independence of people with disability and their right to live free from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.

Further information can be found in the press release of 13 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Families and Social Services.

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Single National Mechanism for Commonwealth Legal Assistance

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - - 112.7 127.0 129.2

Department of Social Services - - - - -

Attorney-General’s Department - - -83.5 -84.8 -86.3

Total — Expense - - 29.1 42.3 42.9

The Government will provide $1.2 billion over three years from 2020-21 in Commonwealth funding for legal assistance services, including services delivered by Legal Aid Commissions, Community Legal Centres and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services.

The funding will be delivered through a new, single mechanism for Commonwealth legal assistance funding, integrating new and existing Commonwealth funding. Subject to negotiations with the states and territories, the national mechanism will be a unified administrative mechanism that provides guaranteed and quarantined funding to Legal Aid Commissions, Community Legal Centres and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services via the states and territories. The national mechanism will commence on 1 July 2020 and will allow for a more collaborative, innovative and effective legal assistance sector in order to address legal needs for the most vulnerable Australians.

Strengthening Counter-Fraud Arrangements

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Federal Police - 4.6 5.2 - -

Attorney-General’s Department - 3.1 3.4 - -

Total — Expense - 7.7 8.6 - -

Related capital ($m)

Australian Federal Police - 0.1 - - -

The Government will provide $16.4 million over two years from 2019-20 (including $0.1 million of capital funding in 2019-20) to pilot and continue measures to strengthen Commonwealth counter-fraud arrangements.

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COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS

Amplifying Australia’s Voice in the Pacific

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Communications and the Arts - - - - -

The Government will provide $17.1 million over three years from 2019-20 to Free TV Australia to deliver 1,000 hours of Australian television content each year to broadcasters in the Pacific.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 18 January 2019 issued by the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister for Fiji.

Bundanon Trust Art Centre

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Communications and the Arts - 6.0 8.0 8.0 -

The Government will provide $22.0 million over three years from 2019-20 to support the ongoing work of the Bundanon Trust. The Bundanon Trust is a custodian of the artworks, landscape and historic buildings gifted by Arthur and Yvonne Boyd to its care.

Consumer Safeguards — targeted measures

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Communications and Media Authority - 1.8 1.7 1.3 1.3

Related revenue ($m)

Australian Communications and Media Authority

- - 3.1 2.7 1.4

Related capital ($m)

Australian Communications and Media Authority

- 0.7 0.2 0.1 ..

The Government will provide $7.2 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $1.4 million per year ongoing from 2023-24) to the Australian Communications and Media Authority to improve dispute resolution for Australian telecommunications consumers by providing advice, support and oversight to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.

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The cost of this measure will be recovered through an increase in the Annual Carrier Licence Charge from 2020-21.

Guaranteeing Australia’s Public Broadcasters — funding for the ABC and SBS

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

- 14.3 14.5 14.8 -

Special Broadcasting Service Corporation

- 5.6 11.9 12.1 -

Total — Expense - 19.9 26.4 26.9 -

The Government will provide $4.0 billion over three years from 2019-20 to Australia’s Public Broadcasters, including $3.2 billion to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and $851.8 million to the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation (SBS). This base operational funding for the ABC and the SBS is determined on a three year rolling basis for the operation of television, radio and online services.

Provision for this funding has already been included in the forward estimates.

The Government will also provide an additional $73.3 million, consisting of:

• $43.7 million over three years from 2019-20 to the ABC to continue to support local news and current affairs services, particularly in regional areas; and

• $29.6 million over three years from 2019-20 to the SBS to guarantee the ongoing quality of its television, radio and online services.

Improving Connectivity in the Western Australian Grainbelt Region — feasibility study

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Communications and the Arts - 2.0 - - -

The Government will provide $2.0 million in 2019-20 for a detailed feasibility study to assess options for improving digital connectivity in the Grainbelt region of Western Australia.

The study will examine opportunities to increase broadband connectivity to support agriculture, transport and local communities, using existing infrastructure in the region.

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National Collecting Institutions — capital works funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Communications and the Arts - 8.0 - - -

The Government will provide $8.0 million in 2019-20 to the Department of Communications and the Arts for Australia’s National Collecting Institutions to undertake capital works to address critical safety issues.

National Library of Australia — Digitisation Fund

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

National Library of Australia - 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5

The Government will provide $10.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to the National Library of Australia (NLA) to establish a Digitisation Fund. The Digitisation Fund, which will also seek philanthropic contributions, will enable the continued digitisation of the NLA’s significant collection and expand its availability to all Australians through its online database, Trove.

Priority projects to be completed under the Digitisation Fund include the digitisation of the papers of eminent Australians such as Sir John Monash and Sir Robert Menzies, as well as all Australian books, journals and newspapers published before Federation.

Office of the eSafety Commissioner — Online Safety Grants Program

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Communications and Media Authority - 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5

The Government will provide $10.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to the Office of the eSafety Commissioner to establish a new Online Safety Grants Program to support the delivery of online safety education and training projects for children by non-government organisations.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Children’s Online Safety Package.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 9 February 2019 issued by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Communications and the Arts.

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Stronger Regional Connectivity Package

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Communications and the Arts - 30.1 29.9 - -

The Government will provide $220.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to the Department of Communications and the Arts to improve regional telecommunications, including:

• $160.0 million for grants under Rounds 5 and 6, and additional funding for Round 4, of the Mobile Black Spot Program; and

• $60.0 million for a Regional Connectivity Program that will provide grants to improve mobile and broadband services in regional areas, online telecommunications advice to regional users, trials of innovative solutions for providing voice services to remote Australia and support the development of the Universal Service Guarantee.

Funding of $160.0 million for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Mobile Black Spot Program — round four and improved mobile network coverage for the western region of Tasmania.

Further information can be found in the press release of 20 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Regional Services.

Support for Tasmanian Tourism

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Communications and the Arts - 1.5 - - -

The Government will provide $1.5 million in 2019-20 to support the installation of a major light show in Tasmania as part of the Museum of Old and New Art’s winter Dark Mofo festival. The light show will encourage tourism in Tasmania during the closure of the Tahune Airwalk as a result of recent bushfires.

The Tasmanian Government will also make a $500,000 contribution.

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Support for the Australian Music Industry

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Communications and the Arts - 2.2 7.4 7.1 7.1

Australia Council - 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

Total — Expense - 2.7 7.9 7.6 7.6

The Government will provide $30.9 million over five years from 2019-20 (including $5.1 million in 2023-24), to support the Australian live music industry. The funding includes:

• $22.5 million to support live music venues through a new grants program;

• $2.0 million to extend the Australia Council for the Arts’ Contemporary Music Touring Program to support national touring by Australian musicians;

• $1.6 million to provide additional support to Sounds Australia to raise the profile of the Australian music industry in Asia;

• $2.1 million to the Australian Music Industry Network to provide mentoring programs for female musicians; and

• $2.7 million to establish a new grants program for Indigenous musicians.

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CROSS PORTFOLIO

Increasing Analytical Capabilities

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office 50.0 - - - -

Department of Home Affairs - 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation - 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4

Department of the Treasury - 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4

Department of Defence - 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2

Total — Expense 50.0 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7

The Government will provide $70.0 million over two years from 2018-19 to undertake preparatory work required for the Australian Taxation Office to migrate from its existing data centre provider to an alternative data centre facility.

The funding will also be used to prepare a second pass business case that will identify the full cost of activities required to complete the data centre migration project.

The Government will also provide $6.9 million over four years from 2019-20 to support additional analytical capabilities within the Treasury and other agencies.

The cost of this measure will be partially met from within the existing resources of departments.

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North Queensland Flood Recovery Package

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury 300.0 1.2 1.0 1.0 1.0

Department of Education and Training 3.0 - - - -

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

2.7 - - - -

Department of Social Services 0.5 - - - -

Department of Human Services 0.2 - - - -

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- 60.6 60.6 - -

North Queensland Livestock Industry Recovery Agency

- 28.3 7.3 7.1 6.9

Regional Investment Corporation

- 2.5 0.8 0.8 0.8

Total — Expense 306.5 92.5 69.6 8.9 8.7

Related revenue ($m)

North Queensland Livestock Industry Recovery Agency

- 46.8 48.1 49.5 -

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- -3.6 -8.8 -4.4 5.1

Total — Revenue - 43.2 39.3 45.1 5.1

Related capital ($m)

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

0.3 - - - -

North Queensland Livestock Industry Recovery Agency

- 0.7 - - -

Total — Capital 0.3 0.7 - - -

The Government will provide $3.1 billion over five years from 2018-19 to support North Queensland’s livestock industry and associated communities to recover from the impacts of the 2019 flood event.

The package includes:

• $32.9 million over five years from 2018-19 (including $1.0 million in capital funding) to establish the North Queensland Livestock Industry Recovery Agency in the Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio. The Agency will coordinate the Commonwealth’s efforts to support North Queensland’s livestock industry and affected communities, with a focus on long-term recovery to complement existing Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements;

• making available up to $1.75 billion in loans to authorised deposit-taking institutions to support interest rate relief for existing and new business loans to eligible flood affected primary producers (sheep and cattle primary producers in the first instance);

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- $0.7 million over three years from 2019-20 will be provided to the North Queensland Livestock Industry Recovery Agency and the Treasury to administer the loan facility from 1 July 2019.

• making available up to $1.0 billion for loans through the Regional Investment Corporation to assist farm businesses with restocking, replanting and refinancing existing debt, with farm businesses suffering extreme hardship able to refinance up to 100 per cent of their commercial debt;

• $300.0 million for grants of up to an interim cap of $400,000 across two programs for primary producers to help rebuild their businesses and assist with the costs of:

- restocking or replacing damaged crops (or permanent plantings), including associated transport costs ($150.0 million); and/or

- repairing or replacing damaged on-farm infrastructure ($150.0 million).

• $5.0 million over five years from 2019-20 (including $1.0 million in 2023-24) to manage the spread and severity of the prickly acacia weed;

• $4.0 million in 2018-19 for Special Circumstances funding for eligible North Queensland schools experiencing financial difficulties, to help ensure the viability of these schools, with $1.0 million to be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Education and Training; and

• $0.8 million in 2018-19 to assist isolated families through a one-off payment of $1,000 per student currently receiving support through the Assistance to Isolated Children Scheme or ABSTUDY.

See also the related expense measures titled Prioritising Mental Health — natural disasters assistance in the Health portfolio, Bureau of Meteorology — additional radars and rain gauges in the Environment and Energy portfolio, and the related revenue measure titled North Queensland Flood Recovery Package — tax treatment of qualifying grants in the Treasury portfolio.

Further information can be found in the joint press releases of 1, 23 and 26 March 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Minister for Education, Minister for Emergency Management and North Queensland Recovery, Minister for Environment and Minister for Families and Social Services.

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Population Package

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - 6.5 6.0 5.5 5.4

National Faster Rail Agency - 4.0 3.5 3.5 3.5

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Department of Education and Training

- 1.1 -2.6 1.3 -0.5

Total — Expense - 11.6 7.0 10.3 8.4

Related capital ($m)

Department of Education and Training

- -0.7 -0.7 -0.7 -0.7

Total — Capital - -0.7 -0.7 -0.7 -0.7

The Government will provide $2.1 billion from 2019-20 to ease population pressures in major cities, while ensuring that regions share the benefits of population growth. The funding includes:

• $2.0 billion from 2021-22 for the delivery of fast rail from Melbourne to Geelong to reduce travel times, increase train patronage and ease congestion on the Princes Highway and West Gate Bridge;

• $14.5 million from 2019-20 (and $2.5 million per year ongoing) for a National Faster Rail Agency to identify and support the development of fast rail connections between capital cities and key regional centres. The Agency will be established from 1 July 2019 and will provide advice on fast rail initiatives, including corridors, and work with state and territory governments on the development of business cases for fast rail projects;

• $23.4 million from 2019-20 to establish a Centre for Population to inform and coordinate the development of population policy across Government; and

• $93.7 million from 2019-20 (and $23.7 million per year ongoing) to establish the Destination Australia Program to support domestic and international students to study in regional Australia by providing scholarships towards a higher education or vocational education and training (VET) qualification.

These initiatives build on the Government’s decision to reduce the migration cap to ease the pressure on capital cities and measures to better match migration and infrastructure with regional and local needs. The funding in this measure is in addition to the Government’s $100 billion investment in road, rail and air infrastructure across Australia, including an additional $3.0 billion for the Urban Congestion Fund to remediate congestion bottlenecks in urban areas. The Government will also allocate $40.0 million, committed to the Major Project Business Case Fund in the 2018-19 Budget,

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to a further five business cases for fast rail across New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

The Destination Australia program will be funded by terminating the Endeavour Leadership Program. Funding of $17.1 million over four years from 2019-20 will remain available to support existing program recipients.

Funding for this measure has already been partially provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the press release of 20 March 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population, the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, the Minister for Regional Services, Sport, Local Government and Decentralisation, and the Minister for Education.

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DEFENCE

Offering Choice in Australian Defence Force Superannuation Scheme

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Defence - - - - -

The Government will extend Australian Defence Force Superannuation Scheme (ADF Super) membership eligibility to allow ADF Super members to choose to remain contributory members when they discharge from the Australian Defence Force.

This will align ADF Super arrangements with superannuation arrangements available in broader industry and other public superannuation schemes.

Whole-of-Government — Cyber Uplift for Federal Government Systems and for the 2019 Federal Election

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Various agencies nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Related capital ($m)

Various agencies nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

The Government will provide funding to enhance cyber security arrangements for whole-of-government systems in relation to the 2019 Federal election, and to mitigate potential cyber threats through enhanced monitoring and response capabilities. This includes the creation of cyber ‘Sprint Teams’ within the Australian Cyber Security Centre and a Cyber Security Response Fund.

The expenditure for this measure is not for publication (nfp) due to national security reasons.

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Child Care System Improvements

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Education and Training

- 4.0 - - -

Related capital ($m)

Department of Education and Training -8.8 - - - -

The Government will provide $4.0 million in 2019-20 to improve the operation of the Child Care Subsidy System (administered by the Department of Human Services) and the Inclusion Support Portal (administered by the Department of Social Services) to reduce the administrative burden on service providers and to streamline payment processes.

This measure will be offset by redirecting funding from not proceeding with a project to test the feasibility of automated attendance reporting in child care. This project is no longer required as alternative reporting solutions have been developed by non-government software providers.

Local School Community Fund

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Education and Training

- 30.2 - - -

The Government will provide $30.2 million in 2019-20 for a Local School Community Fund to assist students through the provision of equipment, upgrades or programs to local schools.

National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education — further extension

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - 134.9 314.7 - -

Department of Education and Training

- 1.3 3.6 - -

Total — Expense - 136.2 318.3 - -

The Government will provide $453.1 million over two years from 2019-20 to further extend the National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education for the 2020 calendar year and to undertake the related National Early Childhood Education and Care Collection in early 2021. The extension will support

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15 hours of preschool each week (600 hours per year) for children attending preschool in 2020 before starting school in 2021.

This measure also includes $1.4 million over two years from 2019-20 to develop and implement strategies to increase preschool attendance rates among disadvantaged and Indigenous children.

This measure extends the 2018-19 Budget measure titled National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education — extension.

School Funding — initiatives to support students and teachers

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Education and Training

- 6.8 5.3 4.3 3.3

The Government will provide $22.2 million over five years from 2018-19 for initiatives to support improved student achievement and wellbeing and to build the capacity of teachers. The funding includes:

• $5.0 million over three years from 2019-20 for Life Education Australia to deliver a program focused on preventative health and wellbeing education for students in primary school and early high school;

• $3.3 million over four years from 2019-20 to continue arts education programs, including Music Australia’s Music Count Us In ($0.5 million over two years to 2020-21), the Song Room’s Transformational Learning through Creativity ($1.3 million over three years to 2021-22) and Bell Shakespeare’s National Education Program ($1.3 million over four years to 2022-23);

• $2.4 million in 2018-19 for the Mobile Musical Education Program to increase participation and engagement in music education by school students, particularly in regional, rural and remote areas;

• $2.0 million over two years from 2019-20 to support the second stage of development of the Australian Constitution Centre, which opened at the High Court of Australia in April 2018 and aims to increase public understanding of Australia’s constitutional framework; and

• $9.5 million over four years from 2019-20 to strengthen the capacity of teachers across Australia to teach mathematics and phonics through the delivery of online teaching and learning resources.

Funding of $2.4 million for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled School Funding — additional support for students.

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Skills Package — delivering skills for today and tomorrow

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Jobs and Small Business - .. - - -

Department of Education and Training -4.0 46.4 95.2 137.4 176.6

Department of the Treasury -134.8 -69.6 -106.4 -106.6 4.7

Total — Expense -138.8 -23.2 -11.2 30.7 181.3

Related capital ($m)

Department of Education and Training

- 10.5 3.5 0.8 0.5

Department of Jobs and Small Business - 0.3 - - -

Total — Capital - 10.8 3.5 0.8 0.5

The Government will provide $525.3 million over five years from 2018-19 (including $15.6 million in capital funding over four years from 2019-20) to further improve the quality of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system, and to respond to the Expert Review of Australia’s Vocational Education and Training System led by the Hon Steven Joyce. The Government will also put in place the building blocks for long-term tertiary reform to enhance the VET brand, keeping it at the centre of modern skills development into the future, and ensuring that the VET sector is student focused and responsive to change.

This package includes:

• $132.4 million over four years from 2019-20 to build an enhanced approach to skills development by establishing a National Skills Commission to drive long-term reforms in the VET sector, piloting new Skills Organisations in key areas of future job growth and establishing a National Careers Institute to improve career advice and provide necessary information for jobseekers;

• $67.5 million over five years from 2018-19 to trial 10 national training hubs supporting school-based vocational education in regions with high youth unemployment, with an aim of creating better linkages between schools and local industry, and other skills development measures;

• $62.4 million over four years from 2019-20 to expand second chance learning in Language, Literacy, Numeracy and Digital Skills to upskill at-risk workers, and to trial four Indigenous delivery pilots providing tailored services in remote communities;

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• $200.2 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $147.5 million in 2023-24) to establish a new Additional Identified Skills Shortage Payment to boost existing incentives for areas of identified skills needs to support up to 80,000 new apprentices over five years, as well as simplifying and streamlining the Australian Apprenticeship Incentives Program;

• $34.2 million in 2019-20 to further support the six signatory states and territories to the Skilling Australians Fund (SAF) National Partnership Agreement to support initiatives to boost apprenticeships and traineeships;

• $20.1 million over four years from 2019-20 to better identify emerging skills needs in the Australian economy through phase three of the Jobs and Education Data Infrastructure Project, along with simplifying students’ access to their education and training records by expanding the Unique Student Identifier to all higher education students and developing a centralised repository for students’ education and training records; and

• $8.5 million over four years from 2019-20 to provide 400 training scholarships nationally, as well as supporting the National Rugby League’s VET Apprenticeship Awareness Program.

This measure will be partially funded by redirecting unallocated funding from the SAF and other vocational Education portfolio programs.

Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory — establishment

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Education and Training

- - - - -

The Government will provide a funding contribution of $5.0 million over two years from 2018-19 to the University of Melbourne for the construction of the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory. The facility will be the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere and will support Australian astroparticle researchers to become global players in dark matter research.

The cost of this measure will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Education and Training.

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Trades Recognition Australia — full cost recovery

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Education and Training 10.0 25.4 29.2 33.5 33.5

Related revenue ($m)

Department of Education and Training 8.9 25.8 29.7 34.2 34.2

The Government will provide $131.6 million over five years from 2018-19 to streamline and strengthen Trades Recognition Australia’s (TRA’s) oversight of skills assessments related to migration, employment and licensing purposes.

These activities will be fully cost recovered by the collection of fees from individual applicants. Fees will be collected by TRA rather than through Registered Training Organisations, as is currently the case, which will streamline interactions with Government. This will not alter the costs incurred or services provided to individual applicants.

Under the revised arrangements, TRA will be responsible for certifying trade skills assessments sought by potential skilled migrants to Australia under the Migration Act 1958. This will ensure that an applicant is able to perform at the required skill level for their nominated occupation in Australia.

The arrangements will be implemented in accordance with the principles of the Australian Government Charging Framework.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Trades Recognition Australia — additional funding.

VET Student Loans — increase in loan limit for aviation courses

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Education and Training

- 1.2 2.3 2.5 2.5

Related revenue ($m)

Department of Education and Training

- 4.3 9.5 11.1 13.0

Related capital ($m)

Department of Education and Training

- 0.2 - - -

The Government will increase the current lifetime loan limit from $104,440 to $150,000 (indexed by CPI) for students undertaking practical flight training from 1 January 2020 through a VET Student Loans approved tuition provider.

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The increased support will address skill shortages in the aviation industry by ensuring aviation students can defer all of their tuition fees to obtain the required licences and ratings required for commercial aviation employment.

This measure is estimated to achieve savings of $29.3 million over four years from 2019-20 in fiscal balance terms and savings of $0.7 million over four years from 2019-20 in underlying cash balance terms.

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ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

Bureau of Meteorology — additional radars and rain gauges

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Bureau of Meteorology - - - 0.6 2.2

Related capital ($m)

Bureau of Meteorology - 0.5 2.0 15.1 7.7

The Government will provide $28.0 million over four years from 2019-20 for the installation of Bureau of Meteorology radars and rain gauges ($77.2 million over the life of the installations to 30 June 2042) to address gaps in weather monitoring infrastructure in Queensland.

See also the related expense measure titled North Queensland Flood Recovery Package in the Agriculture and Water Resources portfolio.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 26 March 2019 issued by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for Education and the Minister for Families and Social Services.

Climate Solutions Package

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury 56.0 - - - -

Department of the Environment and Energy - 24.9 51.1 8.6 5.4

Department of Finance - 2.3 0.7 0.7 0.7

Clean Energy Regulator - - 16.6 54.4 96.1

Total — Expense 56.0 27.1 68.3 63.7 102.2

Related revenue ($m)

Department of the Environment and Energy

- - - 25.3 25.3

Related capital ($m)

Department of the Environment and Energy

- 2.7 3.5 2.4 2.4

Clean Energy Regulator - - 3.5 1.8 -

Total — Capital - 2.7 7.0 4.2 2.4

The Government will provide $3.5 billion over 15 years from 2018-19 for a Climate Solutions Package to deliver on Australia’s 2030 climate commitments including:

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• $2.0 billion over 15 years from 2019-20, including $189.1 million over four years to 2022-23, to establish a Climate Solutions Fund that will allow for expanded investments in low-cost abatement currently underway through the Emissions Reduction Fund;

• up to $1.38 billion in equity over six years from 2019-20, to support the delivery of the Snowy 2.0 project, subject to Snowy Hydro Limited (SHL) achieving financial close on the project and the commencement of the main project works, expected in 2020;

• $5.5 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $0.8 million per year ongoing) to the Department of the Environment and Energy, and $4.3 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $0.7 million per year ongoing) to the Department of Finance, to support Commonwealth oversight of SHL and the Snowy 2.0 project. The cost of this component will be offset by special dividends from SHL in 2021-22 and 2022-23;

• $61.2 million over four years from 2019-20 to establish the Energy Efficient Communities Program, which will provide grants to businesses and community organisations to improve energy efficiency practices and technologies to better manage energy consumption;

• $56.0 million in 2018-19 for a feasibility study to accelerate the delivery of Marinus Link, a second interconnector between Tasmania and the mainland, to unlock pumped hydro storage potential in Tasmania and provide more affordable and reliable electricity for homes and businesses;

• $18.0 million over six years from 2019-20 for households and businesses to improve energy efficiency and lower energy bills; and

• $0.4 million in 2019-20 to develop a National Electric Vehicle Strategy to ensure a planned and managed transition to new vehicle technology and infrastructure.

Further information can be found in the joint press releases of 25 February 2019 and 26 February 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, the Minister for the Environment, the Minister for Energy, and the Minister for Finance and the Public Service.

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Harry Butler Environmental Education Centre

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Environment and Energy - 1.0 8.0 8.0 8.0

The Government will provide $25.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to Murdoch University to establish the Harry Butler Environmental Education Centre (the Centre) to grow understanding of the positive relationship between economic development and environmental sustainability.

The Centre will bring together researchers, students, major corporations and the broader community to learn and explore the benefits that economic development can deliver to the ongoing understanding and protection of our natural environment.

National Centre for Coasts, Environment and Climate

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Environment and Energy - 1.0 8.0 8.0 8.0

The Government will provide $25.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to Monash University and the University of Melbourne to establish a coasts, environment and climate science research and education centre at the Quarantine Station Precinct at Point Nepean, Victoria.

The Centre will be a world-leading interdisciplinary research facility on marine and coastal ecosystems, climate science and environmental management. The centre will leverage its Point Nepean location and its existing capabilities as an integrated ocean and atmospheric observation site.

Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Research

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Environment and Energy - - - - -

The Government will provide $4.7 million over five years from 2018-19 in grant funding to support the University of Newcastle research projects into per- and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances, including:

• $2.4 million for the remediation of contaminated water using a novel application of nanoparticles; and

• $2.3 million for the remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater using plant proteins.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

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Practical Environment Restoration

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Environment and Energy - 51.8 26.6 25.0 25.0

Department of the Treasury - 3.0 3.0 3.0 -

Total — Expense - 54.8 29.6 28.0 25.0

The Government will provide $137.4 million over four years from 2019-20 for on-ground protection and restoration of the environment.

The package includes:

• $100.0 million to establish an Environment Restoration Fund to provide grants for on-ground restoration and protection projects focussing on threatened and migratory species and their habitats, coasts and waterways, recycling and waste reduction and other priority and emerging environmental issues;

• $28.3 million to establish the Communities Environment Program, providing $150,000 to each federal electorate for community led environment projects; and

• $9.2 million towards controlling yellow crazy ants in and adjacent to the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area in Queensland, building on a 2016 election commitment.

Further information can be found in the press releases of 4 March 2019 and 25 March 2019 issued by the Prime Minister and the Minister for the Environment.

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Securing Tourism and Jobs in Kakadu

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Department of the Environment and Energy - - - - -

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

- - - - -

Department of the Treasury - - - - -

Director of National Parks - - - - -

Total — Expense - - - - -

Related capital ($m)

Department of the Environment and Energy

- - - - -

The Government will provide up to $216.2 million from 2018-19 to 2028-29 to secure tourism and jobs in Kakadu National Park (Kakadu) and support the future of the Jabiru Township (Jabiru). The Government will provide funding of:

• $51.2 million to help grow tourism in Kakadu through the development of a Tourism Master Plan and upgrades to campground infrastructure (including improved mobile and WiFi networks), walking tracks, viewing platforms and interpretive signage;

• $35.0 million to assist with the remediation of any contaminants in Jabiru, including asbestos;

• up to $70.0 million to improve roads to increase tourist accessibility to significant tourist sites in Kakadu; and

• up to $60.0 million towards the construction of a Kakadu Visitor Centre in Jabiru, subject to the development of a business case and market soundings.

The increased investment in Kakadu will support economic and employment opportunities for Jabiru and Indigenous communities in the area.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 13 January 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, and the Minister for the Environment.

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Supporting Reliable Energy Infrastructure

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Environment and Energy 3.4 22.6 17.8 19.6 7.0

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 1.9 - - -

Total — Expense 3.4 24.5 17.8 19.6 7.0

The Government will provide $75.5 million over seven years from 2018-19 (including $3.1 million in 2023-24 and $0.1 million in 2024-25) to support investment in network infrastructure, dispatchable generation and reliable energy supplies in the National Electricity Market.

This measure includes:

• $50.4 million to support feasibility studies into the development of microgrids in regional and remote communities;

• $10.0 million for the development of business cases for reliable and affordable energy supplies for commercial and industrial customers in North and Central Queensland;

• $8.4 million to support feasibility studies to accelerate gas supplies from the Northern Territory to the east coast market by opening the Beetaloo Sub-basin for exploration and development;

• $3.2 million to establish a taskforce to support timely delivery of the Australian Energy Market Operator’s recommended projects from its Integrated System Plan (ISP). The ISP forecasts transmission requirements for the National Electricity Market over the next 20 years; and

• $3.5 million to support the development of the program design for the Underwriting New Generation Investments program.

Further information can be found in the press releases of 27 February 2019, 26 March 2019 and 28 March 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, the Premier of Tasmania, the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, and the Minister for Energy.

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Sydney Harbour Federation Trust

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Environment and Energy - - - - -

Related capital ($m)

Sydney Harbour Federation Trust

- 1.7 19.2 0.5 -

Total — Capital - 1.7 19.2 0.5 -

The Government will provide $22.3 million over four years from 2019-20 to the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust (the Trust) for projects to support the work of the Trust, including:

• $21.4 million for the Trust to invest in capital upgrades, including at Sub Base Platypus and Headland Park; and

• $0.9 million to commission an independent review of the work of the Trust to ensure arrangements are effective into the future, with funding to be met from within the existing resources of the Department of the Environment and Energy.

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FINANCE

Australian Electoral Commission — polling place technology and upgrade of ICT infrastructure

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Electoral Commission

- 4.0 6.7 -11.2 -

Department of Finance - 0.1 - - -

Total — Expense - 4.1 6.7 -11.2 -

The Government will provide $10.8 million over two years from 2019-20 for the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) to approach the market to scope the deployment of new polling place technology and upgrades to the AEC’s ageing core ICT infrastructure.

The cost of this measure is funded from funds provisioned in 2021-22 for polling place technology.

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE

Approved Destination Status Arrangements between Australia and China

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Trade and Investment Commission

- - - - -

The Government will provide an additional $11.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to continue the Approved Destination Status (ADS) tourism arrangements between China and Australia. The ADS scheme is a key component of Australia’s tourism industry, supporting tourism operators, including in regional communities, by providing necessary government-to-government assurances for organised tours arrangements.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 5 February 2019 issued by the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment and the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs.

Australia’s Indo-Pacific Engagement — enhanced engagement in Asia

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Trade and Investment Commission

- - - - -

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

- - - - -

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

- - - - -

Total — Expense - - - - -

Related capital ($m)

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

- - - - -

The Government will provide $66.9 million over five years from 2018-19 to enhance Australia’s economic and cultural engagement in the Indo-Pacific region through initiatives focused on strengthening our agricultural, maritime security and cultural links. The measure includes:

• $57.4 million to strengthen and expand our bilateral relationships, including through leadership exchanges, and maritime cooperation including maritime domain awareness and illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing; and

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• $9.5 million for initiatives to enhance engagement between Australia and China on agricultural, regulatory and food safety cooperation. These initiatives will support Australian farmers and strengthen Australia’s long-term engagement with our largest market for agricultural, food, fisheries and forestry exports.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the press release of 14 November 2018 issued by the Prime Minister.

Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific — additional resources

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

- 2.9 3.1 3.3 3.3

The Government will provide $12.7 million over four years from 2019-20 to support the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP). The funding will provide for specialist expertise and other operational costs to enhance the assessment of proposed infrastructure projects to ensure proposals accelerate the delivery of quality infrastructure in the Pacific.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific — establishment.

Further information on the AIFFP can be found in the joint press release of 8 November 2018 issued by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Enhancing National Tourism Icons

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Trade and Investment Commission

- 10.0 20.0 20.0 -

The Government will provide $50.0 million over three years from 2019-20 to support the development and enhancement of nationally and regionally iconic tourism infrastructure, with co-contributions from state and territory governments and industry. These projects will generate tourism demand in regional areas and support regional economies.

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Establishment of an Australian Trade and Defence Office in West Jerusalem

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Trade and Investment Commission

0.4 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9

Related capital ($m)

Australian Trade and Investment Commission

0.3 .. - - -

The Government will provide $3.9 million over five years from 2018-19 to establish an Australian Trade and Defence Office (TDO) in West Jerusalem, Israel. The TDO will strengthen Australia’s trade, investment and defence industry partnerships with Israel by maximising research and development and export opportunities for Australian industry.

Further information can be found in the Prime Minister’s speech of 15 December 2018 and the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements 2018-19 Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio.

Supporting Australian Exports

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Trade and Investment Commission

- 21.0 20.0 20.0 -

The Government will provide $61.0 million over three years from 2019-20 to support Australian businesses to export Australian goods and services to overseas markets, comprising:

• $60.0 million over three years from 2019-20 in increased funding for the Export Market Development Grants scheme to boost reimbursement levels of eligible export marketing expenditure for small and medium enterprise exporters; and

• $1.0 million in 2019-20 to further promote Australian export industries to overseas markets.

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HEALTH

Changes to the Continuous Glucose Monitoring Program

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health .. .. 0.1 0.1 0.1

The Government will provide $0.2 million over five years from 2018-19 for changes to the Continuous Glucose Monitoring Program. The Government will:

• list three new Continuous Glucose Monitoring products from 1 March 2019; and

• expand eligibility for Continuous Glucose Monitoring products to include people under 21 years of age with congenital hyperinsulinaemia from 1 April 2019.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Changes to the National Diabetes Services Scheme and the Continuous Glucose Monitoring Program.

Child Dental Benefits Schedule — three year extension

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - - - -

The Government will provide over $1.0 billion over three years from 1 January 2020 for the Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CDBS), including extending the payment of benefits for eligible dental services provided in the public sector. The CDBS provides eligible children aged between 2 and 17 years access to $1,000 of dental services over a two year period.

This measure builds on the 2017-18 Budget measure titled Child Dental Benefits Schedule — Increased Cap.

Provision for this funding has already been included in the forward estimates.

Establishment of a Centralised Donor Milk Bank Service

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - - - -

The Government will provide $2.0 million in 2019-20 to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service to increase access to donor milk for premature babies born in Australia. Donor human milk banks will be centralised and expanded as part of the measure and a collaborative research program will be established to undertake further research into the benefits of donor milk.

The cost of this measure will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Health.

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Fighting Cancer — additional infrastructure and services

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health 9.0 7.8 13.5 9.1 8.9

Department of the Treasury - - 4.5 - -

Total — Expense 9.0 7.8 18.0 9.1 8.9

The Government will provide $70.8 million over seven years from 2018-19 for additional infrastructure and services to support the diagnosis, treatment and therapy for cancer patients including in regional areas, with:

• $0.9 million to Bloomhill Cancer Care survivor-wellness centre, which provides services to cancer patients on the Sunshine Coast, Morton Bay and Gympie regions in regional Queensland;

• $6.0 million for the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse sarcoma surgical research centre in New South Wales;

• $45.5 million to establish Cancer Treatment Centres in regional Australia for radiation therapy; and

• $12.6 million to The Bays Healthcare Group over three years from 2018-19 to build a new cancer centre on The Bays Hospital site in Mornington and to support health initiatives at its Alexandra Park facility.

Fighting Cancer — McGrath Foundation Breast Care Nurses

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - - - -

The Government will provide $27.7 million over four years from 2019-20 for an additional 41 breast care nurse positions. This will add to the 57 nurses currently funded by the Commonwealth Government through the McGrath Foundation. Breast Care Nurses are specially trained to care for people diagnosed with breast cancer, providing vital support to patients and their families.

This measure builds on the 2016-17 MYEFO measure titled McGrath Foundation Breast Care Nurses — continued funding.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 5 January 2019 issued by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Health.

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Fighting Cancer — Prostate Cancer Nurses Program — continuation and expansion

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - 4.9 5.8 6.8

The Government will provide $17.4 million over three years from 2020-21 to support up to 34 new prostate cancer nurses and continue funding for existing nurses. As a result of this measure there will be a total of 62 prostate cancer nurses funded by the Government providing specialist support for patients and their families and carers.

This measure extends the 2017-18 Budget measure titled Prostate Cancer Nurses Program — continuation and expansion.

Guaranteeing Medicare — improved access to diagnostic imaging

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health 7.9 31.4 52.6 90.1 126.4

Department of Veterans’ Affairs 0.1 0.2 -0.1 0.2 0.5

Department of Human Services .. 1.4 -0.4 -0.4 -0.4

Department of the Treasury - 3.0 - - -

Total — Expense 8.0 35.9 52.2 89.9 126.5

The Government will provide $308.9 million over five years from 2018-19 for improved access to diagnostic imaging services. The Government will:

• provide an additional 23 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) licences to provide Medicare subsidised access to imaging services;

• index ultrasound and x-ray diagnostic imaging services from 1 July 2020 for the first time in 20 years;

• subsidise two new items on the Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) for the diagnosis of breast cancer using MRI;

• provide access to two new items on the MBS for whole body Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography for the evaluation of breast cancer; and

• implement recommendations of the independent clinician-led Medicare Review Taskforce by restricting the use of scanning items for deep vein thrombosis, restricting co-claiming of diagnostic services, promoting the use of modern diagnostic imaging equipment, simplifying rules and removing obsolete services.

Partial funding for this measure has already been included in the forward estimates.

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Guaranteeing Medicare — improving quality and safety through stronger compliance

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - - - -

Department of Human Services - - - - -

Professional Services Review - - - - -

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

- - - - -

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

- - - - -

Total — Expense - - - - -

Related revenue ($m)

Department of Health - - - - -

Related capital ($m)

Department of Human Services

- - - - -

Department of Health - - - - -

Total — Capital - - - - -

The Government will invest $105.9 million over five years from 2018-19 to continue to improve Medicare compliance arrangements and debt recovery practices to ensure Medicare services are targeted at serving the health needs of Australian patients.

This measure includes better targeting of investigations into fraud, inappropriate practice and incorrect claiming by working with relevant government agencies and behavioural driven approaches to compliance. The Government will continue to consult with professional bodies and stakeholder groups on the compliance strategies.

Provision for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Guaranteeing Medicare — improving transparency of out-of-pocket costs

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - 5.2 2.0 .. -

The Government will provide $7.2 million over three years from 2019-20 to increase the availability of information on medical out-of-pocket costs. Information will be provided nationally, with an initial focus on specialist fees for gynaecology, obstetrics, and cancer services.

Further information can be found in the press release of 2 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Health.

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Guaranteeing Medicare — Medicare Benefits Schedule Review — response to Taskforce recommendations

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - 1.2 4.6 5.1 5.4

Department of Human Services - 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2

Department of Veterans’ Affairs - .. 0.2 0.2 0.2

Total — Expense - 1.2 5.0 5.4 5.7

The Government has responded to a number of recommendations from the independent, clinician-led Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Taskforce to align certain MBS items with contemporary clinical evidence and improve health outcomes for patients, including by:

• restructuring intensive care and emergency medicine service items performed in emergency departments to reflect the differing levels of professional involvement required during emergency attendances;

• introducing new items for neurosurgery and promoting the use of higher value neurology items; and

• updating item descriptions and explanatory notes to align with contemporary practice, tightening clinical indicators and restricting inappropriate co-claiming of selected urology services items.

Provision for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Guaranteeing Medicare — operational costs of Cardiac, Breast, Hip Fracture and Trauma Registries

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - - - -

The Government will provide $2.8 million over four years from 2018-19 for the operational costs of the Australian Breast Device Registry, Cardiac Device Registry, Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry, and the Australian Trauma Registry, to support improved clinical care and better patient outcomes.

The cost of this measure will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Health.

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Guaranteeing Medicare — strengthening primary care

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health 46.7 142.3 137.6 264.4 449.1

Department of the Treasury - 4.0 4.0 4.0 -

Department of Veterans’ Affairs - 0.9 0.4 0.4 0.4

Total — Expense 46.7 147.1 142.0 268.8 449.5

The Government will provide $1.1 billion over five years from 2018-19 to support primary care and improve frontline health services for Australians. The Government will:

• provide $448.5 million over the three years from 2020-21 for a new chronic disease care funding model that will provide additional funding to participating practices to better support high-needs patients;

• provide $201.5 million over five years from 2018-19 to promote quality improvements in General Practice by increasing the amount of funding for the revised Practice Incentive Program Quality Incentive and maintaining the current aged care incentive;

• provide $187.2 million over four years from 2019-20 to re-introduce indexation to all remaining General Practitioner services on the Medicare Benefits Schedule;

• provide $62.2 million over five years from 2018-19 to implement a new medical training pathway for rural generalists and provide additional training places for General Practitioners in rural, remote and regional communities;

• provide $26.5 million in 2019-20 to allow a longer transition to new arrangements under the 2018-19 Budget measure A Stronger Rural Health Strategy for changes to the geographic eligibility criteria for the rural bulk billing incentives and the Workforce Incentive Program, which will now commence from 1 January 2020;

• provide $28.0 million over five years from 2018-19 to St John Hospitals to trial urgent care centres in Western Australia;

• provide $19.7 million over seven years from 2018-19 (including $7.0 million beyond 2022-23) to the Royal Far West Children’s Health and Charles Sturt University to roll-out ‘Project Catalyst’;

• provide $17.2 million over five years from 2018-19 to establish a chronic disease grants program to improve outcomes for Australians living with chronic disease by funding priority activities recommended by the National Strategic Action Plans;

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• provide $12.0 million over three years from 2019-20 to enhance and extend the Childhood Immunisation Education Campaign to raise awareness and counter misinformation to increase rates of vaccination, and extend the eligibility for the Fluarix Tetra quadrivalent influenza vaccine provided through the National Immunisation Program to include patients from six months of age up to three years of age;

• provide $12.0 million over three years from 2019-20 to Heart of Australia to provide mobile specialist services;

• provide $7.0 million in 2018-19 to the Fraser Coast Hospice Facility;

• provide $3.0 million over three years from 2022-23 (including $2.0 million beyond 2022-23) to HeartKids Australia for the Childhood Heart Disease National Action Plan;

• establish a new Medicare heart check item that recognises the importance of cardiovascular health and is designed to assist in reducing the prevalence of heart disease by enabling assessment of cardiovascular risk;

• realign the funding of the Neurological Nurses Specialist Pilot, which amends the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Guaranteeing Medicare — strengthening primary care that funds specialised nurses for people living with neurological conditions; and

• provide a further $38.3 million over five years from 2018-19 towards other community health projects to support primary care and improve frontline health services for Australians.

Health Star Rating System

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - - - -

The Government will provide $1.1 million over two years from 2019-20 to continue Commonwealth support for the Health Star Rating system, in collaboration with the States and Territories, while an evaluation of the system is completed.

The cost of this measure will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Health.

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Implementation of the National Strategies for Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - 9.2 7.6 3.4 -

The Government will provide $40.4 million over three years from 2019-20 for the Commonwealth’s contribution to implementing the National Blood Borne Viruses (BBV) and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STI) Strategies 2018-2022. The Strategies are a joint activity with state and territory governments and are designed to reduce the prevalence, incidence and transmission risks of BBV and STI in the community.

This funding will bring the total additional investment from the Commonwealth for the implementation of the National BBV and STI Strategies to over $45.0 million. The Government is currently working with key stakeholders to finalise these implementation plans.

The cost of this measure will be partially met from within the existing resources of the Department of Health.

Implementation of Recommendations of the Third Review of the National Gene Technology Scheme

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - 1.4 0.9 1.1 1.1

The Government will provide $4.4 million over four years from 2019-20 to implement the recommendations of the Third Review of the National Gene Technology Scheme. Funding will be used to implement review recommendations in conjunction with states and territories and to support the role of the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator.

The implementation of the review recommendations will ensure that the Scheme continues to achieve its objectives of protecting people and the environment, whilst facilitating innovation and competitiveness for research and industry.

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Implementing Sport 2030

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Sports Commission 42.5 57.2 51.5 3.5 3.5

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 20.0 40.0 40.0 50.0

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

- - - - -

Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

- - - - -

Tourism Australia - 2.0 3.0 - -

Department of Health -2.8 9.6 10.8 1.0 1.0

Total — Expense 39.8 88.8 105.3 44.5 54.5

Related revenue ($m)

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

- - - - -

Related capital ($m)

Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

- - - - -

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

- - - - -

Total — Capital - - - - -

The Government will provide $385.6 million over six years from 2018-19 to support the implementation of the national sport plan, Sport 2030, through the following initiatives:

Sport Integrity

• $33.0 million over two years from 2019-20 to implement reforms as part of the Government Response to the Review of Australia’s Sports Integrity Arrangements that will safeguard the integrity of Australian sport. The Government will establish a new body, Sport Integrity Australia, to carry out anti-doping and integrity functions, and a National Sports Tribunal to hear and resolve rule violations. The Government has also signed up to the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions.

International Sporting Events

• $7.7 million over two years from 2019-20 to promote the International Cricket Council T20 World Cup 2020 and for event preparations including security and safety, defence and border control services; and

• $0.3 million in 2019-20 to support the Australian Minifootball Federation to host the 2019 World Minifootball Federation World Cup in Perth.

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Athlete Support and Wellbeing

• $54.1 million over two years from 2019-20 for high performance grants to National Sporting Organisations and to support athletes through the Direct Athlete Support Scheme, and expand the Mental Health Referral Network;

• $8.0 million over three years from 2018-19 to support the Australian Paralympic Team to prepare for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games;

• $4.5 million over six years from 2018-19, including $0.5 million in 2023-24, to develop a Sport Industry Growth Plan, fund sport scholarship and mentoring programs by the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, and support the Australian Sports Foundation in philanthropic sport initiatives; and

• $40,000 in 2018-19 to Netball NT to support its participation in the Australian Netball League.

Community Sport Initiatives and Infrastructure

• $150.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to support the development of female change room facilities at sporting grounds and for community swimming facilities across Australia;

• $42.5 million in 2018-19 for the Community Sport Infrastructure Program to fund sport infrastructure projects in local communities;

• $41.0 million over two years from 2019-20 to continue and expand the Sporting Schools Program to provide free sport-based activities for students in over 6,000 primary and secondary schools;

• $23.6 million over four years from 2019-20 for grants to strengthen social inclusion through sport and recreation, and extend the Big Issue Community Street Soccer Program;

• $12.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to Tennis Australia to increase opportunities for women and girls to participate in grassroots tennis;

• $4.0 million over two years from 2018-19 to construct new facilities for para-athletes at the Essendon Football Club’s ‘The Hangar’ facility, which is also Paralympic Australia’s Victorian base;

• $2.0 million in 2019-20 for Get Skilled Access to provide support for schools and community clubs;

• $1.8 million in 2019-20 to support hosting of the Brisbane INAS Global Games in October 2019; and

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• $1.4 million over two years from 2019-20 for Special Olympics Australia to improve health and physical activity outcomes for young people with intellectual disability.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Sport — building a more active Australia, and on the 2018-19 MYEFO measures titled Sport 2030 — Community Sport Infrastructure Program — additional funding and Sport 2030 — high performance funding.

The cost of this measure will be partially met from existing resources and funding that has already been provided for by the Government.

Improving Access to Medicines — Life Saving Drugs Program

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

The Government will provide funding over five years from 2018-19 for new listings on the Life Saving Drugs Program. The Government will provide access at no cost for the following drugs which are typically used to treat babies and young children:

• new and amended listings of nitisinone (Orfadin® and Nityr®) from 1 May 2019, for the treatment of Hereditary Tyrosinaemia Type-1; and

• new listing of cerliponase alfa (Brineura®) from 1 May 2019, for the treatment of Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis Type-2 (CLN 2), also known as Batten Disease.

The amount paid by the Government for these medicines is not for publication (nfp) as it is commercially sensitive.

Improving Access to Medicines — National Medical Stockpile — improved operations

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - 2.3 5.1 4.7 4.9

The Government will provide $17.1 million over four years from 2019-20 to improve the management of the National Medical Stockpile including the storage, transport, stocktake and disposal of medicines, vaccines and antidotes that are maintained to respond to public health emergencies.

This measure builds on the 2017-18 Budget measure titled Improving Access to Medicines — National Medical Stockpile — replenishment and operations.

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Improving Access to Medicines — Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — new and amended listings

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health 45.7 95.8 13.6 13.3 14.1

Department of Human Services 1.0 5.6 4.9 5.0 5.1

Department of Veterans’ Affairs .. -0.4 -0.7 -0.8 -0.8

Total — Expense 46.7 101.0 17.8 17.5 18.4

Related revenue ($m)

Department of Health nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

The Government will provide $331.0 million over five years from 2018-19 for new and amended listings on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (RPBS).

New and amended listings since the 2018-19 MYEFO include:

• Osimertinib (Tagrisso®) from 1 February 2019, for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer;

• Venetoclax (Venclexta®) from 1 March 2019, for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia;

• Nivolumab (Opdivo®) with Ipilimumab (Yervoy®) from 1 March 2019, for the treatment of stage IV clear cell variant renal cell carcinoma;

• Brentuximab vedotin (Adectris®) from 1 April 2019, for the treatment of CD30 positive cutaneous T-cell lymphoma; and

• Inotuzumab ozogamicin (Besponsa®) from 1 May 2019, for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

The cost of some of these medicines will be reduced by revenue from rebates negotiated as part of purchase agreements. Details of the revenue are not for publication (nfp) due to commercial sensitivities.

Funding for this measure has already been partially provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found on the PBS website (www.pbs.gov.au).

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Improving Access to Medicines — Stoma Appliance Scheme — new listings

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - .. .. .. ..

The Government will implement the recommendations of the Stoma Product Assessment Panel to list 13 new items, amend the prices and pack sizes of nine current items, and remove 30 items from the Stoma Appliance Scheme.

Improving Access to Medicines — supporting community pharmacy

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Veterans’ Affairs - - 1.5 1.5 1.5

Department of Health -85.0 -46.0 75.2 75.2 75.2

Total — Expense -85.0 -46.0 76.7 76.7 76.7

The Government will provide $245.0 million over five years from 2018-19 to improve consumer access to medicines and support community pharmacies. This includes:

• $215.0 million over three years from 2020-21 to provide additional remuneration to community pharmacies through increased Administration, Handling and Infrastructure fees on all Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) scripts, which has been partially funded by reallocating funding from the community pharmacy programs;

• $15.0 million over three years from 2020-21 for additional Community Service Obligation payments to pharmacy wholesalers;

• $15.0 million in 2018-19 to expand the Dose Administration Aids program and the MedsCheck and Diabetes MedsCheck program in community pharmacies; and

• aligning public and private hospital pharmacy pricing with the community pharmacy pricing arrangements from 1 July 2019.

In addition, the Government will improve cash flows for community pharmacies by reducing the period of time that the Government takes to process claims against the PBS from 9-16 days to 2-9 days, which has no impact on the fiscal balance over the forward estimates but will negatively impact underlying cash by $213.3 million in 2018-19.

Further information can be found in the press release of 7 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Health.

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Investing in Health and Medical Research — Channel Nine Queensland Telethon

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health 2.0 - - - -

The Government will provide $2.0 million in 2018-19 to the Channel Nine Queensland Telethon which is raising funds for the Children’s Hospital Foundation. The donations raised will fund medical research, new medical equipment and provide support services for children and their families.

Investing in Health and Medical Research — fighting diabetes

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - - - -

The Government will provide $56.0 million for research that will give new hope and support to the more than 120,000 Australian children and adults living with type 1 diabetes, including:

• $6.0 million over four years from 2019-20 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to further assist with the strategic vision and national leadership of the Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Research Network which is an initiative to accelerate clinical research to increase access to new treatments for people living with type 1 diabetes;

• $25.0 million over five years from 2019-20 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to advance its Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Research Network; and

• an initial investment of $25.0 million will also be dedicated to broader diabetes research under the $125.0 million Medical Research Future Fund Targeted Translation Research Accelerator initiative, to help progress early stage health and medical research discoveries to reach proof-of-concept and progress to clinical trials. Projects will be funded following an open and competitive grant round.

Provision for this funding has already been included in the forward estimates.

Further information can be found in the press release of 4 February 2019 issued by the Minister for Health.

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Investing in Health and Medical Research — Health and Medical Research Office

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - - - -

The Government will provide $20.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to enhance the administrative arrangements for managing the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) by establishing the Health and Medical Research Office. This will enhance policy advice, program design and strategic oversight for the investments made through the MRFF.

The cost of this measure will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Health.

Investing in Health and Medical Research — Lowitja Institute

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - 4.0 4.0 2.0 -

The Government will provide $10.0 million over three years from 2019-20 to the Lowitja Institute, Australia’s National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research. The Lowitja Institute aims to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through research, the translation of knowledge into policy, and through the support of Indigenous health researchers.

Investing in Health and Medical Research — research infrastructure

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health 10.0 - - 3.0 10.0

The Government will invest $46.0 million over seven years from 2018-19 in health and medical research infrastructure. This will include funding of $10.0 million to establish the Curtin University Dementia Centre of Excellence and $18.0 million for the Charles Sturt and Western Sydney Universities to establish the Institute for Regional, Rural and Remote Health and Medical Research in Orange.

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Investing in Health and Medical Research — Medical Research Future Fund — Ten Year Investment Plan

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health 0.3 8.4 5.9 9.3 8.4

National Health and Medical Research Council

- - - - -

Total — Expense 0.3 8.4 5.9 9.3 8.4

The Government will invest in life saving and job creating medical research through a $5.0 billion Ten Year Investment Plan for the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), across four themes;

Patients

The Government will commit a further $931.0 million for a total of $1.3 billion allocated under the Investment Plan to improve the health of Australians through the development of new treatments and cures informed by the latest research and use of cutting edge technology, which includes:

• Clinical Trials for Rare Cancers, Rare Diseases and Unmet Needs — a further $354.0 million for a total of $614.2 million;

• Emerging Priorities and Consumer Driven Research — a further $554.0 million for a total of $633.0 million; and

• Global Health — Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance and Drug Resistant Tuberculosis — a further $23.0 million for a total of $28.4 million.

Researchers

The Government will commit a further $444.6 million for a total of $792.8 million allocated under the Investment Plan to support our best health and medical researchers to make breakthrough discoveries, develop their skills and progress their careers in Australia, which includes:

• Frontier Health and Medical Research — a further $330.0 million for a total of $570.0 million;

• Industry Researcher Exchange and Training — existing allocation of $32.0 million; and

• Clinical Researchers — a further $114.6 million for a total of $190.8 million.

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Missions

The Government will commit a further $1.2 billion for a total of $1.4 billion allocated under the Investment Plan for long-term investments in health and medical research to address complex and sizeable health issues requiring a concerted effort to transition great ideas through to proof-of-concept and beyond, which includes:

• Australian Brain Cancer Mission — a further $2.0 million for a total of $50.0 million with additional funding through philanthropic contributions for this Mission;

• Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission — existing allocation of $125.0 million;

• Genomics Health Futures Mission — a further $430.2 million for a total of $500.0 million;

• Ageing, and Aged Care and Dementia Mission — a new investment of $185.0 million;

• Indigenous Health Futures — a new investment of $160.0 million;

• Stem Cell Mission — a new investment of $150.0 million;

• Cardiovascular Mission — a new investment of $220.0 million; and

• Traumatic Brain Injury — a new investment of $50.0 million.

Translation

The Government will commit a further $1.2 billion for a total of $1.5 billion allocated under the Investment Plan to progress research ideas from the lab to the clinic, ensuring new medical discoveries are part of the clinical practice of General Practitioners, specialists and hospitals, which includes:

• Preventive and Public Health Research — a further $60.0 million for a total of $260.4 million;

• Primary Health Care Research — a new investment of $45.0 million;

• Rapid Applied Research Translation Centres — a further $143.0 million for a total of $218.0 million;

• Medical Research Commercialisation — a further $254.0 million for a total of $311.3 million;

• National Critical Infrastructure — a new investment of $605.0 million; and

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• Data Infrastructure — focus on registries, biobanks and linkage platforms — a new investment of $80.0 million.

The Government will also provide $88.2 million over 14 years from 2018-19 to the Department of Health for administrative costs associated with this measure.

Provision for disbursements from the MRFF and $5.6 million for administrative costs have already been included in the forward estimates.

More Choices for a Longer Life — Commonwealth Home Support Programme Funding Arrangements — extension

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - - - -

The Government will provide $5.9 billion over two years from 2020-21 to extend the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) funding arrangements. The CHSP contributes to essential home support services, such as meals (Meals on Wheels), personal care, nursing, domestic assistance, home maintenance, and community transport, to assist older people to keep living independently in their own home.

Funding for these programs has already been included in the forward estimates.

More Choices for a Longer Life — improving the quality, safety and accessibility of aged care services

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health 307.3 141.1 133.5 36.0 20.7

Department of Veterans’ Affairs 23.5 - - - -

Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission 1.9 6.5 2.7 0.8 0.8

Department of Human Services - - - - -

Total — Expense 332.6 147.6 136.3 36.9 21.4

Related capital ($m)

Department of Health 0.2 1.7 2.6 - -

Department of Human Services

- - - - -

Total — Capital 0.2 1.7 2.6 - -

The Government will provide $724.8 million over five years from 2018-19 to support older Australians through further improvements to the quality, safety and accessibility of residential and home care services, including:

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Better Access to Care

• $320.0 million in 2018-19 for a one-off increase to the basic subsidy for residential aged care recipients;

• $282.4 million over five years from 2018-19 for the release of an additional 10,000 home care packages across the four package levels;

• $35.7 million over five years from 2018-19 for an increase to the dementia and the veterans’ home care supplements to support home care recipients who require additional care to stay in their homes longer;

• $7.4 million over three years from 2018-19 to support aged care providers to better manage their finances through the provision of business advisory services;

• $4.6 million over two years from 2018-19 to trial a residential care needs assessment funding tool as an alternative to the existing Aged Care Funding Instrument; and

• $7.1 million over two years from 2018-19 to improve payment administration arrangements for home care packages to address stakeholder concerns regarding unspent funds and align home care arrangements with other Government programs, such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The Government will consult with stakeholders on the implementation of these improved payment administration arrangements.

Better Quality of Care

• $38.4 million over five years from 2018-19 to strengthen aged care regulation through the establishment of a risk-based compliance and information sharing system in the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission;

• $8.4 million over five years from 2018-19 to introduce mandatory reporting against national residential care quality indicators for pressure sores, use of physical restraint, weight loss, falls and fractures, and medication management;

• $7.7 million over two years from 2018-19 to develop an end-to-end compliance framework for the Home Care program, including the increased auditing and monitoring of home care providers;

• $5.6 million in 2019-20 to commence the implementation of an enhanced home care compliance framework to improve the quality and safety of home care services and enhance the integrity of the home care system;

• $3.4 million over two years from 2019-20 for the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission to address the use of chemical restraints and the inappropriate use of antibiotics in residential aged care facilities;

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• $2.6 million in 2019-20 to provide additional support for the implementation of the Aged Care Workforce Strategy; and

• $1.5 million in 2019-20 to undertake preparatory work for the introduction of a new Serious Incident Response Scheme from July 2022, which will require residential care providers to report a broader range of incidents occurring in their facilities.

Partial funding for this measure has already been included in the forward estimates.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 10 February 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, Minister for Health and Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care.

My Health Record — continuation

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Digital Health Agency

- - - - -

Related capital ($m)

Australian Digital Health Agency

- - - - -

The Government will provide an additional $200.0 million in 2019-20 to continue the My Health Record system. The My Health Record system allows individuals to control and track their medical history and treatments, such as medical tests, use of medicines and vaccinations.

This measure extends the 2017-18 Budget measure titled My Health Record — continuation and expansion.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Prioritising Mental Health — caring for our community

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury 5.0 - - - -

Department of Health 3.6 11.4 37.0 34.6 46.3

National Mental Health Commission

- 1.5 2.3 5.4 2.3

Total — Expense 8.6 12.9 39.3 40.0 48.6

The Government will provide $229.9 million over seven years from 2018-19 (including $80.5 million beyond 2022-23) to improve mental health services within the community by strengthening social networks and peer groups, supporting social inclusion and increasing treatment options, including:

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• $114.5 million over five years from 2020-21 to trial eight mental health centres focusing on specialised support for adults requiring treatment, particularly after-hours;

• $43.9 million over seven years from 2018-19 (and $8.8 million per year ongoing) for a new Perinatal Mental Health and Wellbeing Program to support the mental health of expectant and new parents by improving access to mental health support and treatment services and increasing community awareness of the mental health issues experienced by new parents;

• $15.0 million over three years from 2019-20 to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for the improvement of data on self-harm and suicide to assist governments, communities and mental health and suicide prevention bodies to better respond to incidences of self-harm and suicide;

• $11.5 million over four years from 2019-20 to the National Mental Health Commission for the National Mental Health Workplace Initiative to improve the mental health and wellbeing of working Australians;

• $6.1 million over two years from 2019-20 to the New South Wales Government for the establishment of Grace’s Place, a residential trauma recovery centre for children;

• $6.0 million over two years from 2019-20 to Bellarine Community Health to contribute to the establishment of the Ocean Grove Health and Wellbeing Hub to increase health and social support services available within the Ocean Grove community;

• $5.0 million in 2018-19 to the South Australian Government for a purpose built facility at the Repatriation General Hospital, Adelaide to provide treatment for people with eating disorders;

• $5.0 million over six years from 2018-19 for Lord Somers Camp and Power House to redevelop the existing power house building on Albert Park Lake and build a new power house community hub to work with at risk youth and the disability sector;

• $4.0 million over seven years from 2018-19 for The Esther Foundation young women’s residential health, development and leadership program to provide counselling to assist with issues such as domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health and self-harm;

• $1.8 million in 2018-19 to contribute to the establishment of an Integrated Youth Services Hub and a Health and Wellbeing facility in the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, to support youth mental health and welfare services; and

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• $0.3 million in 2018-19 for Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, to develop a new model of care in partnership with the World Economic Forum to incorporate international best practices into an Australian framework to improve mental health outcomes for young people.

The cost of this measure will be partially met from within the existing resources of the Department of Health, and a provision of $6.1 million that has already been included in the forward estimates.

Further information can be found in the press releases of 12 February 2019 and 22 February 2019 issued by the Minister for Health.

Prioritising Mental Health — Early Psychosis Youth Services

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - - - -

The Government will provide $109.7 million to extend the Early Psychosis Youth Services program for an additional two years from 2019-20 to continue support for young people to access specialist mental health services.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Prioritising Mental Health — national headspace network

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health 13.9 16.7 34.3 42.6 45.9

The Government will provide $263.3 million over seven years from 2018-19 (including $109.9 million beyond 2022-23) to improve access to youth mental health services across the national headspace network, including:

• $152.0 million for additional services across the headspace network to reduce waiting times for young people seeking mental health services; and

• $111.3 million for an additional 30 headspace services, including satellite services in Sarina and Whitsunday, Queensland. This will expand the headspace network to 145 services across Australia by 2021.

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Prioritising Mental Health — natural disaster assistance

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health 2.1 2.6 0.4 0.4 -

The Government will provide $5.5 million over four years from 2018-19 for additional mental health services and support for communities impacted by natural disasters in Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania. This will include $1.3 million for the Centre for

Post-traumatic Mental Health to develop and implement online training tools to assist health practitioners to better support communities affected by disasters.

The Government will also introduce Medicare items to allow General Practitioners to provide telehealth services to flood affected communities in Queensland until 30 June 2019.

Further information can be found in the press releases of 8 February 2019 and 24 February 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, and the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources.

Private Health Insurance Reforms — information campaign

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - - - - -

The Government will provide $5.0 million over two years from 2018-19 to inform consumers of the implementation of private health insurance reforms, including the new classification of private hospital cover (gold, silver, bronze or basic), and improved access to mental health treatment.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Supporting Australians living with epilepsy

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health - 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0

The Government will provide $20.0 million over four years from 2019-20 towards the Epilepsy Smart Australia Program Pilot that will be delivered by Epilepsy Australia member organisations to support Australians living with epilepsy.

The Epilepsy Smart Australia Program Pilot aims to reduce chronic health impacts experienced by those who have epilepsy by providing support and resources to encourage being healthy and active, to promote participation and retention in education and the workplace, and to support the health sector workforce.

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Supporting Our Hospitals — additional infrastructure and services

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury 11.6 3.4 4.0 13.0 23.0

Department of Health 4.6 1.7 3.6 6.6 6.6

Total — Expense 16.2 5.1 7.6 19.6 29.6

The Government will provide $107.8 million over seven years from 2018-19 (including $29.8 million beyond 2022-23) to improve Australia’s health and hospital system. The Government will invest in health infrastructure and services, involving the upgrade of health facilities, including:

• $16.0 million to improve patient access to Redland Hospital;

• $5.0 million for the refurbishment of medical imaging at Bowen Hospital, including a new CT scanner;

• $3.5 million to Bass Coast Health to enhance health services including radiology, chemotherapy, and a combined surgical and paediatric ward; and

• $2.9 million to Ronald McDonald House Charities to expand services in South Brisbane.

Supporting Our Hospitals — Community Health and Hospitals Program

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury 53.3 9.8 27.5 37.0 218.3

Department of Health -53.3 -9.8 -27.5 -37.0 -218.3

Total — Expense - - - - -

The Government will provide $1.3 billion over seven years from 2018-19 to improve Australia’s health and hospital system through the Community Health and Hospitals Program by supporting patient care while reducing pressure on community and hospital services.

Funding has been allocated nation-wide for initiatives in four priority areas: hospital infrastructure; drug and alcohol treatment; preventive health, primary care and chronic disease management; and mental health. This will provide funding for facilities and equipment, provide treatment and rehabilitation services, increase participation in clinical trials, establish centres of excellence, trial innovative approaches and provide for better integration of services and multidisciplinary care, including:

• $100.0 million for a Comprehensive Children’s Cancer Centre at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales;

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• $80.0 million to establish in Victoria a Centre of Excellence in Cellular Immunotherapy, including for the manufacturing of cellular immunotherapies for Australia and the Asia-Pacific region;

• $60.0 million to support the James Cook University Tropical Enterprise Centre in Queensland to become a centre of excellence in tropical medicine;

• $30.0 million for the construction of a new Brain and Spinal Ward at the Repatriation Hospital in South Australia;

• $25.7 million for a new Ambulatory Care Centre at the Alice Springs Hospital, Northern Territory, which will enhance and expand the provision of ambulatory care services;

• $25.0 million to upgrade the Peel Health Campus in Western Australia;

• $24.0 million to improve health outcomes for individuals living with brain and spinal cord injuries in Queensland;

• $13.5 million to expand the intensive care unit at Canberra Hospital by an additional six beds; and

• $4.4 million to fund a second linear accelerator at the North West Cancer Centre in Burnie, Tasmania.

Provision for this funding has already been included in the forward estimates.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Community Health and Hospitals Program.

Supporting Our Hospitals — National Health Funding Body

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

National Health Funding Body - - 1.3 1.3 1.4

The Government will provide $6.8 million over five years from 2020-21 (including $2.7 million beyond 2022-23) to the National Health Funding Body to assist it in meeting its legislative functions, including implementing the next National Health Reform Agreement due to begin on 1 July 2020.

This measure builds on the 2017-18 Budget measure titled National Health Funding Body — funding requirements.

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HOME AFFAIRS

AUSTRAC — Fintel Alliance

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre - 5.2 3.9 6.7 6.1

Related revenue ($m)

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre

- 5.2 4.5 7.7 7.4

Related capital ($m)

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre

- 0.8 3.4 2.3 -

The Government will provide $28.4 million over four years from 2019-20 (including $6.5 million in capital funding) to the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre to expand the Fintel Alliance. The Fintel Alliance is a public-private partnership that builds resilience in the financial system and disrupts money laundering, terrorism financing and other serious crime.

The cost of this measure will be offset by an increase in the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre Industry Contribution levy.

Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - .. -1.0 -2.0 -2.0

Department of Human Services - -0.1 -0.5 -1.1 -1.8

Department of Health - -9.6 -50.2 -103.6 -169.1

Total — Expense - -9.7 -51.7 -106.7 -172.9

Related revenue ($m)

Department of Home Affairs - .. .. .. -1.0

Australian Taxation Office - -2.0 -6.0 -12.0 -17.0

Total — Revenue - -2.0 -6.0 -12.0 -18.0

Related capital ($m)

Department of Health - 2.9 1.9 1.9 -

The Government will extend the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Visas for General Practitioners — targeting areas of doctor shortages, by reducing the planning target by a further 155 overseas trained doctors.

The extension will provide efficiencies of $296.3 million over four years from 2019-20 which will be used to fund other Health priorities.

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Border Security Assistance for Fiji

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs 1.1 1.7 1.3 0.4 -

Related capital ($m)

Department of Home Affairs 1.7 - - - -

The Government will provide $6.2 million over four years from 2018-19 to strengthen Fiji’s border integrity through a program of sustained engagement with relevant Fijian border and law enforcement agencies.

The measure contributes to the Fiji-Australia Vuvale Partnership, which is a broad-ranging and comprehensive agreement that will pave the way for deeper security, economic and people-to-people links.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 18 January 2019 issued by the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of Fiji.

Confiscated Assets Account

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission - - - - -

Australian Federal Police - - - - -

Department of Home Affairs - - - - -

Total — Expense - - - - -

The Government will provide $21.6 million over four years from 2018-19 from the Confiscated Assets Account under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to fund crime prevention and law enforcement initiatives.

Counter-Terrorism Financing Conference 2019

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs - 1.8 - - -

The Government will provide $1.8 million in 2019-20 to host an international ministerial-level Counter-Terrorism Financing Conference in late 2019 to foster greater global collaboration and coordination in combatting the financing of terrorism.

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Countering Foreign Interference

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Federal Police - 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.7

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation - 1.0 1.9 2.2 2.9

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

- 1.0 1.5 1.8 1.9

Attorney-General’s Department - 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

- - - - -

Total — Expense - 3.8 5.2 5.8 6.7

Related capital ($m)

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

- 2.3 - - -

Australian Federal Police - 0.1 - - -

Attorney-General’s Department

- 0.1 0.1 .. ..

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

- .. .. .. ..

Total — Capital - 2.6 0.1 .. ..

The Government will provide $34.8 million over four years from 2019-20 to counter activities that seek to undermine Australia’s sovereign democratic institutions. This includes funding to support investigations under the National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Act 2018. An additional $3.9 million, from within existing resources, will support the implementation of a diplomatic strategy to enable intensified cooperation with international partners.

Funding for this measure has already been partially provided for by the Government.

Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements — funding for Northern Queensland floods

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury 232.0 - - - -

The Government will provide up to $232.0 million in 2018-19 under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) for those affected by flooding associated with the North and Far North Monsoonal Trough event occurring on 25 January 2019 in Queensland.

The assistance includes:

• grants for flood affected primary producers, small businesses and non-profit organisations, provided under Category D of the DRFA and will be matched dollar for dollar by the Queensland Government;

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• a comprehensive package to support longer term recovery, under Category C and D of the DRFA, matched dollar for dollar by the Queensland Government and focused on the built, economic, environmental, and human and social recovery domains and also including measures to build resilience within affected communities; and

• $11.0 million (100 per cent funded by the Commonwealth) to 11 local government areas to assist in recovery efforts.

The assistance outlined in this measure is in addition to other assistance provided by the Commonwealth government for this and other natural disasters in the form of Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payments, Disaster Recovery Allowance

and other payments made through the DRFA.

See also the related revenue measure titled North Queensland Flood Recovery Package — tax treatment of qualifying grants in the Treasury portfolio.

Further information can be found in the press release of 1 March 2019 issued by the Prime Minister.

National Disaster Risk Information Capability Pilot

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs - - - - -

The Government will provide $1.7 million over two years from 2018-19 for a pilot project to demonstrate the benefits of establishing a national climate and disaster risk information capability for Australia.

The pilot project will focus on improving coordination of existing capabilities to forecast and assess climate and disaster risks and identify areas for further development.

The cost of this measure will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Home Affairs.

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National Public Register of Child Sex Offenders

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission - 0.7 1.4 1.5 0.7

Related capital ($m)

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

- - 1.7 1.8 -

The Government will provide $7.8 million over four years from 2019-20 (including $3.5 million in capital funding) to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission to establish and host a publicly available National Public Register of Child Sex Offenders (the Register).

State and territory law enforcement agencies will be responsible for providing, vetting and managing the information to be included on the Register, with the information to include the names and known aliases of child sex offenders, photographs of the offender, their date of birth, physical description, general location and nature of offending.

National Security Agencies — additional resourcing

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Federal Police 33.0 17.0 65.4 162.5 184.1

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation - 40.9 - - -

Total — Expense 33.0 57.9 65.4 162.5 184.1

Related capital ($m)

Australian Federal Police - 21.7 10.1 9.0 10.1

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

- 0.7 - - -

Total — Capital - 22.4 10.1 9.0 10.1

The Government will provide an additional $571.4 million over five years from 2018-19 (including $68.6 million in capital funding) to support the operations of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to strengthen their capacity to meet the Government’s national security objectives.

The measure includes:

• $512.8 million over five years from 2018-19 (including $50.8 million in capital funding) to the AFP to enhance critical capabilities and operations, including counter-terrorism activities; and

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• $58.6 million in 2019-20 (including $17.7 million in capital funding) in 2019-20 for ASIO to sustain current operations and undertake preliminary work to further enhance its future operations.

Funding for this measure has already been partially provided for by the Government.

This national security measure underlines the Government’s commitment to a safe and secure Australia.

Natural Disaster Resilience Funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - - - - -

Department of Home Affairs - - - - -

Total — Expense - - - - -

The Government will provide $130.5 million over five years from 2019-20 to reduce the risk and impact of disasters. This funding includes $104.4 million for a five year national partnership agreement to support the states and territories in reducing disaster risks and $26.1 million to deliver initiatives that reduce disaster risk at the national level.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

New Regional Visas — Population Package

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Human Services 2.4 11.2 2.0 2.0 2.3

Department of Home Affairs 0.5 5.7 2.5 2.1 2.5

Department of Social Services 0.2 1.0 - - -

Total — Expense 3.1 17.9 4.5 4.1 4.8

Related revenue ($m)

Department of Home Affairs - - - -0.5 0.7

Related capital ($m)

Department of Home Affairs 0.8 5.0 0.8 - -

Department of Human Services

0.5 7.2 0.5 0.3 0.3

Total — Capital 1.2 12.2 1.3 0.3 0.3

The Government will provide $49.6 million over five years from 2018-19 (including $15.3 million in capital funding) to introduce new visas to better support the needs of regional Australia.

From November 2019, two new regional visas will be implemented: the Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa, and the Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional) visa, which will replace the existing Regional Sponsored Migration

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Scheme (subclass 187) visa, and the Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489). The new visas will permit skilled migrants to stay and work in regional Australia for a period of five years.

From November 2022, the Government will also introduce a new Permanent Residence visa for regional Australia.

The Government will also implement enhanced compliance activities to support the new visas.

Regional Cooperation Arrangement

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs - 39.5 - - -

The Government will provide $39.5 million in 2019-20 to continue funding for the Regional Cooperation Arrangement (RCA) in Indonesia. The RCA supports regional partners to manage asylum seeker populations in their countries.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Operation Sovereign Borders — continuation.

Regional Processing Arrangements — Christmas Island

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs 148.6 23.7 - - -

Australian Federal Police 1.8 - - - -

Total — Expense 150.4 23.7 - - -

Related capital ($m)

Department of Home Affairs 9.6 - - - -

Australian Federal Police 1.4 - - - -

Total — Capital 11.0 - - - -

In order to manage the risks that arose from the passage of the Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2019 (the Act), the Government re-opened the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre.

The Government will repeal the Act and close the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre by 1 July 2019. Any Illegal Maritime Arrivals (IMAs) on Christmas Island will be returned to Nauru and Papua New Guinea, and the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre will be returned to a contingency setting. The funding includes:

• $178.9 million to manage the transfer of IMAs from Nauru and Papua New Guinea to Christmas Island for medical treatment;

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• $3.2 million to increase the Australian Federal Police’s presence on Christmas Island; and

• $3.0 million to reinforce Operation Sovereign Border’s offshore strategic communications campaign.

Regional Processing Arrangements — Independent Health Advice Panel

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs 8.0 - - - -

As a result of the passage of the Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2019, the Government will provide funding of $8.0 million in 2018-19 for the establishment of an Independent Health Advice Panel to monitor, assess and report on the physical and mental health of transitory persons who are in regional processing countries and the standard of health services provided to them.

Safer Communities Fund

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs - 26.4 9.6 9.6 12.6

The Government will provide $58.2 million over four years from 2019-20 to increase funding available under the Safer Communities Fund (SCF). This includes:

• $35.1 million over four years from 2019-20 for Round Five of the SCF to provide grant funding to local government and community organisations to address crime and anti-social behaviour by funding crime prevention initiatives and to protect schools, pre-schools and community organisations that are facing security risks associated with racial or religious intolerance; and

• $23.1 million in 2019-20 to increase funding for Round Four of the SCF, which provides grants to local government and community organisations, such as organisations of religious worship and religious assembly, to fund crime prevention initiatives to keep children safe, including those who face a risk of attack, harassment or violence stemming from racial or religious intolerance.

Initiatives that could be funded include the installation of closed-circuit television to help protect schools, pre-schools and places of religious worship and religious assembly.

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Social Cohesion Package — community engagement initiatives

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Home Affairs 5.2 15.4 5.8 0.2 -

The Government will provide $27.2 million over four years from 2018-19 for a package of initiatives to foster belonging and break down barriers to social and economic participation for Australian immigrants, and create stronger communities. This includes:

• $12.6 million over three years from 2019-20 to establish the Community Languages Multicultural Grants Program to support community language schools and connect young Australians to the language, heritage and culture of their community;

• $7.3 million over three years from 2018-19 to continue the Fostering Integration Grants Program to support community organisations to assist newly-arrived migrants to integrate into Australian society;

• $5.0 million in 2019-20 for the Greek Centre Hub in Melbourne and for a Hellenic Chair in Global Diasporas at the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne; and

• $1.8 million over two years from 2018-19 for digital engagement initiatives to counter extremism online.

The Government will also provide $0.6 million in 2019-20 to evaluate the effectiveness of current social cohesion initiatives. The cost of the evaluation will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Home Affairs.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Fostering Integration Grants Scheme.

Further information can be found in the press releases of 12 February 2019, 14 March 2019 and 20 March 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, the Minister for Families and Social Services, and the Minister for Regional Services, Sport, Local Government and Decentralisation.

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Whole of Government Drug Strategy

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Health 0.8 4.7 5.0 1.6 1.7

Australian Federal Police - 30.0 30.5 32.0 31.2

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission - 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8

Department of Home Affairs - 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.5

Total — Expense 0.8 40.0 40.8 39.0 38.1

Related capital ($m)

Australian Federal Police - 5.1 1.6 0.3 0.1

The Government will provide $337.2 million over five years from 2018-19 to further support the National Drug Strategy 2017-2026. The National Drug Strategy is a 10-year framework that aims to prevent and minimise the harmful effects of drugs such as ice. This funding includes:

• $153.3 million over four years from 2018-19 for the Department of Health (Health) to extend Commonwealth support for the National Ice Action Strategy, which includes drug treatment, prevention and research activities to reduce the harm generated by methamphetamine use;

• $147.2 million over four years from 2019-20 for the Home Affairs portfolio to strengthen law enforcement efforts to combat outlaw motorcycle gangs and the trafficking of illicit firearms and drugs;

• $9.6 million over three years from 2018-19 for Health to increase the capacity of the drug and alcohol workforce in regional and remote areas, where Primary Health Networks will direct funding to areas experiencing shortages of specialist services;

• $7.2 million over two years from 2019-20 for Health to trial a program in New South Wales and South Australia to expand the availability of naloxone, a drug used to reverse opioid overdoses;

• $6.6 million over five years from 2018-19 for Health to support new alcohol and drug rehabilitation services in Queensland, including funding for Healthy Options Australia for a two year pilot of a 12-week psychosocial treatment model in Rockhampton, and the Salvation Army to support 16 additional beds at their existing service in Townsville and contribute to establish a new detox facility;

• $4.8 million over four years from 2019-20 for the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission to continue the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, which will enhance national data on illicit drug use;

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• $4.3 million over four years from 2018-19 for Health to improve local family drug support services across Australia, which will provide families and communities with better access to drug treatment information and peer support; and

• $4.3 million over three years from 2018-19 for Health to improve opioid prescribing practices and increase awareness of appropriate pain management treatment in regional, rural, and remote areas through the Rural Health Outreach Fund.

The cost of this measure will be partially met from within the existing resources of the Department of Health.

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INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND SCIENCE

Expanding Questacon’s Education Outreach

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

- 4.9 5.1 5.1 -

Department of Defence - -2.0 -2.1 -2.1 -

Total — Expense - 2.9 3.0 3.0 -

Related revenue ($m)

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

- 0.2 0.2 0.2 -

The Government will provide $15.1 million over three years from 2019-20 to expand Questacon’s education and outreach activities.

Improving STEM Gender Equity in Australia

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

- 1.0 1.1 1.2 ..

The Government will provide $3.4 million over four years from 2019-20 to encourage more women into science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. The funding will support an extension of the Science in Australia Gender Equity program for an additional three years; and a digital content National Awareness Raising Initiative, led by the Women in STEM Ambassador.

Funding for this measure will be offset by redirecting funding from the measure titled Industry Programs — efficiencies.

The measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Australian Technology and Science Growth Plan — encouraging more women to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and careers.

Industry Programs — efficiencies

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

-5.0 - -1.0 -2.2 -5.7

The Government will achieve efficiencies of $48.9 million over five years from 2018-19 from within the uncommitted funds from the Entrepreneurs’ Programme and the Industry Growth Centres Initiative.

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Savings of $35.0 million over five years from 2018-19 for this measure have already been provided for by the Government.

The savings from this measure will be redirected by the Government to repair the Budget and fund portfolio policy priorities.

Making Innovation Games National

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

- 1.8 1.8 - -

The Government will provide $3.6 million over two years from 2019-20 to trial the Innovation Games nationally. The Innovation Games will bring together small and medium businesses and students to solve real-life, practical business issues.

Up to 30 games will be held over the two year trial period where businesses and students will work together to solve innovation, technology and/or digital challenges set by a corporate sponsor. This would improve collaboration between businesses and education institutions, and broaden employment prospects for students and graduates.

Space Infrastructure Fund

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

0.2 -0.4 -3.4 3.6 -

The Government will provide $19.5 million over four years from 2018-19 to establish a Space Infrastructure Fund to support projects which will accelerate the growth of Australia’s space industry. Commonwealth investment will be guided by the Australian Civil Space Strategy 2019-2028, which is designed to inform government, research and industry collaboration in growing the space sector.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Australian Technology and Science Growth Plan — growing the Australian space industry.

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Strengthening the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation - 23.5 0.9 0.1 -

Related capital ($m)

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

- 22.8 6.3 2.8 -

The Government will provide $56.4 million over three years from 2019-20 (including $31.9 million in capital funding) to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation to support nuclear medicine production, critical radioactive waste management and nuclear decommissioning activities, and asset management.

The Government will also provide an equity injection of $56.0 million to ensure the continued protection of both the community and the environment.

Thermochemical Conversion Technology Facility

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

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Pending the outcomes of a business case under development, the Government will provide funding to help construct a Thermochemical Conversion Technology facility to explore alternative methods for asbestos waste remediation.

The expenditure for this measure is not for publication (nfp) due to commercial-in- confidence considerations.

The measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Thermochemical Conversion Technology facility — trial.

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INFRASTRUCTURE, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CITIES

Adelaide City Deal

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - - - - -

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

- - - - -

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - - - - -

Related capital ($m)

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

- - - - -

The Government will provide $165.0 million from 2019-20 to fund projects under the Adelaide City Deal. The funding includes:

• $135.0 million to support projects at Lot Fourteen, with $85.0 million for an Aboriginal Art and Cultures Gallery, $30.0 million for an International Centre for Tourism, Hospitality and Food Studies, and $20.0 million for a collaborative research engagement hub;

• $6.0 million to establish the space discovery centre to provide education and mission simulation to support training;

• $10.0 million towards the rollout of smart technology infrastructure in the Adelaide City centre; and

• $14.0 million to promote Adelaide to locals and visitors, by upgrading the Cedars and Carrick Hill historic houses, ensuring a world class cultural experience for visitors.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

The $171.0 million Commonwealth contribution to the Adelaide City Deal also includes $6.0 million for a Mission Control Centre to support the emerging space start-up industry, as well as research and educational institutions across Australia, provided through the measure titled Space Infrastructure Fund in the Industry, Innovation and Science portfolio.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 19 March 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population, and the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs.

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Airport Building Control and Environmental Officer Services — additional funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

The Government will provide $3.8 million in 2019-20 to support the regulatory oversight and environmental management of Australia’s 19 federally-leased airports.

The cost of this measure will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities.

Albury Wodonga Regional Deal

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - 3.2 - - -

The Government will provide $3.2 million in 2019-20 to initiate the Albury Wodonga Regional Deal which will support projects that boost economic and social development in the region. As the first cross-border regional deal, the Government will provide an investment of $3.2 million to undertake strategic governance, planning and inform structure and priorities for the regional deal.

Further information can be found in the press release of 20 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Regional Services, Sport, Local Government and Decentralisation.

Assistance for Farmers and Farm Communities in Drought — additional funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

5.0 15.2 - - -

Department of the Treasury - -20.2 - - -

Total — Expense 5.0 -5.0 - - -

The Government will provide an additional $20.2 million over two years from 2018-19 to support farmers and farming communities in drought, including:

• $15.0 million in 2019-20 for the Drought Communities Programme to deliver local infrastructure and drought-relief projects in a further 15 drought-affected councils across Australia; and

• $5.0 million in 2018-19 for the Country Women’s Association of Australia to provide assistance to drought-affected communities.

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This measure will be offset by redirecting funding from existing resources.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Assistance for Farmers and Farm Communities in Drought.

Further information can be found in the press release of 27 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Regional Services, Sport, Local Government and Decentralisation.

Barkly Regional Deal

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - 5.7 9.8 6.9 -

Bureau of Meteorology - - - 0.2 0.5

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

- -2.0 -4.0 -2.5 -

Total — Expense - 3.7 5.8 4.6 0.5

Related capital ($m)

Bureau of Meteorology - - - 3.4 -

The Government will provide $45.4 million from 2019-20 for the Barkly Regional Deal to support projects that boost economic and social development in the Barkly region.

The funding includes $15.4 million for the installation of a new weather radar near Tennant Creek, with a co-contribution of $2.5 million from the Northern Territory Government; and $7.6 million for community infrastructure projects already funded through the Building Better Regions Fund.

This measure will be partially offset by redirecting funding from the Indigenous Advancement Strategy.

Building Better Regions Fund — round four

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 39.7 108.3 48.3 9.9

The Government will provide $206.2 million from 2019-20 for a further round of the Building Better Regions Fund, to support investment in community infrastructure and capacity building projects in regional areas.

This investment increases the total funding provided for the Building Better Regions Fund to $841.6 million and is in addition to the Government’s previous commitment to the National Stronger Regions Fund of $611.2 million over five years from 2015-16.

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This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Building Better Regions Fund — round three.

Community Development Grants Programme — additional projects

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 18.7 32.5 19.3 18.8

The Government will provide an additional $496.2 million from 2018-19 to deliver infrastructure projects that support local communities across Australia, including:

• $15.0 million towards the North Queensland Cowboys’ Community, Training and High Performance Centre in Townsville, Queensland;

• $15.0 million towards the construction of the Brisbane Lions’ training and administration facility in Springfield, Queensland;

• $15.0 million towards the redevelopment of Ikon Park in Carlton, Victoria; and

• $15.0 million towards the establishment of the William Cooper Centre in Richmond, Victoria.

Funding for this measure has already been partially provided for by the Government.

This measure extends the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Community Development Grants Programme — additional projects.

Establishment of the North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority

0.4 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3

The Government will provide $9.6 million over five years from 2018-19 to establish the North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority to support the development of water infrastructure, including for the Hughenden Irrigation Scheme and the Hells Gates Dam Scheme (including Big Rocks Weir).

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 9 March 2019 issued by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development.

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Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal — storm recovery

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

The Government will provide $1.0 million in 2018-19 to the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal for clean-up and recovery payments to primary producers experiencing hardship as a result of storm damage in the Fassifern Valley, Queensland.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

See also the related revenue measure titled Queensland storms — tax treatment of payments to primary producers in the Treasury portfolio.

Geelong City Deal — additional funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - - 10.0 10.0 10.0

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - - 10.0 10.0 10.0

The Government will provide an additional $30.0 million from 2020-21 under the Geelong City Deal to support the implementation of the Shipwreck Coast Master Plan by upgrading tourism infrastructure at the Twelve Apostles, Glenample Precinct and Gibson Steps. This funding brings total investment through the Geelong City Deal to $355.8 million, of which $183.8 million is being provided by the Commonwealth.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Geelong City Deal.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 11 March 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, the Premier of Victoria, the Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population and the Treasurer of Victoria.

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Hinkler Regional Deal

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - 11.0 15.0 20.0 25.0

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - 11.0 15.0 20.0 25.0

The Government will provide $71.0 million from 2019-20 towards the Hinkler Regional Deal to support community and transport infrastructure projects that boost economic and social development in the Bundaberg and Hervey Bay regions.

The $172.9 million Commonwealth contribution to the Hinkler Regional Deal also includes:

• $9.2 million for the redevelopment of the Hervey Bay Airport already funded through the Building Better Regions Fund;

• $7.0 million for the Fraser Coast Hospice Facility provided through the measure titled Guaranteeing Medicare — strengthening primary care; and

• $85.7 million for road projects in the Bundaberg and Hervey Bay regions, provided through the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Queensland infrastructure investments.

Further information can be found in the press release of 27 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Regional Services, Sport, Local Government and Decentralisation.

Hobart City Deal

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Social Services 3.0 27.0 - - -

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Department of the Environment and Energy - - - - -

Department of the Treasury - - - - -

Total — Expense 3.0 27.0 - - -

Related capital ($m)

Department of the Environment and Energy

- - - - -

The Government will provide $529.9 million over 11 years from 2018-19 to support projects under the Hobart City Deal. This funding includes:

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• $465.2 million over 10 years from 2019-20 to upgrade Australia’s Antarctic research station network and supporting infrastructure to enhance Australia’s environmental, economic, scientific, security and strategic interests in Antarctica;

• $7.6 million in 2018-19 to develop a second-pass business case for the construction and maintenance of a new year-round aviation facility near Davis Research Station in Antarctica;

• $0.5 million over five years from 2018-19 (and $0.1 million ongoing from 2023-24) to establish an Australian Antarctic Science Council to support reform initiatives announced as part of the Government’s response to the Australian Antarctic Science Program Governance Review 2017;

• $30.0 million to provide over 100 new social housing dwellings in Greater Hobart in partnership with community housing providers; and

• $25.0 million towards projects to reduce congestion on Hobart’s key arterial roads already funded under the Urban Congestion Fund.

The Government will also expand the provision of border services to the Hobart International Airport.

Funding of $499.9 million for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 24 February 2019 issued by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population, the Premier of Tasmania and the Treasurer of Tasmania.

Improving road safety

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 5.6 7.0 10.0 10.0

The Government will provide $38.5 million from 2019-20 (and $1.4 million per year ongoing) to improve road safety in Australia. The funding includes:

• $5.9 million for the establishment of the Office of Road Safety to facilitate a greater coordination and leadership role for the Government in road safety;

• $12.0 million for a Road Safety Innovation Fund to support road safety research and the development of new road safety technologies and products;

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• $8.0 million to extend the Keys2Drive program for a further two years. The Australian Automobile Association will continue to make a co-contribution of $1.0 million a year (cash and in-kind) with an emphasis on outreach in regional areas;

• an additional $6.0 million for the Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative to fund projects that identify opportunities to improve heavy vehicle safety;

• $4.0 million to support road safety awareness, education and collaborative initiatives with nationally focused road organisations that promote road safety; and

• $2.6 million to the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) to assist local governments to assess their road asset management and maintenance requirements with a focus on regional areas. The funding will support ARRB to make professional expertise and research outcomes more readily available to local governments to improve asset management and predictive maintenance and natural planning, leading to improved road safety and enhanced productivity outcomes for freight.

The cost of this measure will be partially met from within the existing resources of the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities.

Indian Ocean Territories — economic diversification

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

.. 0.7 0.1 0.1 0.1

The Government will provide $1.5 million over five years from 2018-19 to support initiatives under the Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands Strategic Plans, including:

• $1.0 million to update the Flying Fish Cove Master Plan and to undertake a review of the tourism sector on Christmas Island; and

• $0.5 million for the Indian Ocean Territories Regional Development Organisation to deliver community and infrastructure projects, to be offset by redirecting funding from the Indian Ocean Territories — community development grants measure announced in the 2018-19 MYEFO.

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Infrastructure Investment Program — Australian Capital Territory infrastructure investments

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - - - 15.0 20.0

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - - - 15.0 20.0

The Government will provide an additional $50.0 million from 2021-22 for priority regional and urban transport infrastructure in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The funding includes:

• $30.0 million for the Kings Highway corridor, to be prioritised in consultation with the Government, the ACT Government and the New South Wales Government; and

• $20.0 million for the duplication of William Slim Drive, Belconnen.

This increases the Government’s total commitment to transport infrastructure projects in the ACT to over $725.0 million from 2013-14, including grants and other infrastructure related commitments.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Infrastructure Investment Programme — Australian Capital Territory infrastructure investments.

Infrastructure Investment Program — New South Wales infrastructure investments

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury 25.0 25.0 32.0 49.0 135.5

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense 25.0 25.0 32.0 49.0 135.5

The Government will provide an additional $6.1 billion from 2018-19 for priority regional and urban transport infrastructure in New South Wales. The funding includes:

• $3.5 billion for the first stage of the Western Sydney North South Rail Link, including $61.0 million for the Elizabeth Drive Overpass;

• $1.6 billion for the M1 Pacific Motorway Extension to Raymond Terrace;

• $405.0 million in additional funding for the M12 Motorway;

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• $400.0 million for the Newell Highway;

• $200.0 million for the Hawkesbury River Third Crossing; and

• $12.5 million for Pooncarie Road.

Funding for the Western Sydney North South Rail Link has already been provided for by the Government.

The Government will allocate $496.0 million to specific projects in New South Wales under the Roads of Strategic Importance initiative, including from funding provided through the measure Infrastructure Investment Program — Roads of Strategic Importance — next priorities. The allocation includes:

• $300.0 million for the Toowoomba to Seymour corridor;

• $140.0 million for the Tenterfield to Newcastle corridor;

• $20.0 million for Bucketts Way;

• $20.0 million for Clarence Town Road; and

• $16.0 million for Dixons Long Point Crossing.

The Government will allocate $253.5 million to specific projects in New South Wales through the Urban Congestion Fund from funding provided in the 2018-19 Budget. This allocation includes:

• $95.0 million for The Horsley Drive;

• $50.0 million for King Georges Road;

• $50.0 million for Homebush Bay Drive; and

• $50.0 million for Commuter Car Park Upgrades, with $30.0 million for Gosford, $5.0 million for Woy Woy, $7.5 million for Panania and $7.5 million for Hurstville.

This is in addition to funding of $500.0 million provided for road transport infrastructure in New South Wales under the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Princes Highway.

This brings new commitments in the 2019-20 Budget for priority road and rail projects in New South Wales under the Infrastructure Investment Program to $7.3 billion. This increases the Government’s total commitment to transport infrastructure projects in New South Wales to over $32.0 billion from 2013-14, including grants and other infrastructure related commitments.

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This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Infrastructure Investment Programme — New South Wales infrastructure investments.

Infrastructure Investment Program — Northern Territory infrastructure investments

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - 5.0 15.0 30.0 10.0

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - 5.0 15.0 30.0 10.0

The Government will provide an additional $60.0 million from 2019-20 for Tiwi Island road upgrades.

The Government will also allocate $492.3 million to the Northern Territory through the Roads of Strategic Importance initiative from funding provided in the 2018-19 Budget. The allocation includes:

• $162.3 million for the Alice Springs to Darwin corridor;

• $160.0 million for the Alice Springs to Halls Creek corridor;

• $70.0 million for the Tennant Creek to Townsville corridor;

• $60.0 million for the Adelaide River to Wadeye corridor; and

• $40.0 million for the Newman to Katherine corridor.

This is in addition to funding of up to $70.0 million provided for road infrastructure in the Northern Territory, under the measure titled Securing Tourism and Jobs in Kakadu.

This brings new commitments in the 2019-20 Budget for priority road projects in the Northern Territory under the Infrastructure Investment Program to $622.3 million. This increases the Government’s total commitment to transport infrastructure projects in the Northern Territory to over $2.2 billion from 2013-14, including grants and other infrastructure related commitments.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Infrastructure Investment Programme — Northern Territory infrastructure investments.

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Infrastructure Investment Program — Princes Highway

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - - 20.0 30.0 50.0

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - - 20.0 30.0 50.0

The Government will provide $1.0 billion from 2020-21 for improvements to the Princes Highway, including for road widening and safety upgrades, new overtaking lanes, duplication along key sections and town bypasses in New South Wales, Victoria

and South Australia.

The funding priorities will be informed by the Princes Highway Corridor Strategy, initiated by the Commonwealth Government.

This will bring the Government’s total commitment to Princes Highway upgrades to $1.9 billion.

Infrastructure Investment Program — Queensland infrastructure investments

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - - 5.0 105.0 203.0

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - - 5.0 105.0 203.0

The Government will provide an additional $2.6 billion from 2020-21 for priority regional and urban transport infrastructure in Queensland. The funding includes:

• $800.0 million for the Gateway Motorway extension from Bracken Ridge to Pine River;

• $500.0 million for the M1 Upgrade program, including Daisy Hill to the Logan Motorway;

• $425.4 million for Bruce Highway projects, including:

- $180.0 million for the Cairns Southern Access corridor,

- $144.0 million for stage five of the Townsville Ring Road; and

- an additional $91.4 million for the Maroochydore Road Interchange Upgrade.

• $320.0 million for Warrego Highway upgrades between Ipswich and Toowoomba;

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• $287.2 million for the Cairns Ring Road;

• $170.0 million for Cunningham Highway projects; and

• $100.0 million for the Gladstone Port Access Road.

Funding for the Bruce Highway and Cunningham Highway projects has already been provided for by the Government.

The Government will allocate $1.0 billion to specific projects in Queensland under the Roads of Strategic Importance initiative, including from funding provided through the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Roads of Strategic Importance — next priorities. The allocation includes:

• $254.0 million for the Mt Isa to Rockhampton corridor, including $64.0 million for the Yeppoon Road Duplication;

• $200.0 million for the Tennant Creek to Townsville corridor;

• $190.0 million for the Cooktown to Weipa corridor;

• $100.0 million for the Townsville to Roma corridor;

• $60.0 million for the Toowoomba to Ipswich corridor;

• $50.0 million for the Cairns to the Northern Territory Border corridor;

• $50.0 million for the Toowoomba to Seymour corridor;

• $32.0 million for Quay Street;

• $29.6 million for Shute Harbour Road; and

• $24.0 million for the Torbanlea Pialba Road.

The Government will also allocate $378.8 million to specific projects in Queensland through the Urban Congestion Fund, including funding provided through the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Urban Congestion Fund — next priorities. The allocation includes:

• $85.0 million for Lindum Crossing;

• $50.0 million for the Gympie Arterial Road;

• $50.0 million for M1 intersection upgrades;

• $50.0 million for the Ipswich Motorway corridor;

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• $30.0 million for the Beaudesert Road and Mount Lindesay Highway corridor; and

• $25.0 million for the Indooroopilly Roundabout Intersection.

This brings new commitments in the 2019-20 Budget for priority road and rail projects in Queensland under the Infrastructure Investment Program to $4.0 billion. This increases the Government’s total commitment to transport infrastructure projects in Queensland to over $25.0 billion from 2013-14, including grants and other infrastructure related commitments.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Infrastructure Investment Programme — Queensland infrastructure investments.

Infrastructure Investment Program — Road Safety and Upgrade Package

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Department of the Treasury - 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Total — Expense - 200.0 200.0 200.0 200.0

The Government will provide additional funding of $2.2 billion from 2019-20 to improve local road safety and provide upgrades across local road networks. The funding includes:

• an additional $1.1 billion for the Roads to Recovery Program;

• an additional $550.0 million for the Black Spot Program;

• an additional $275.0 million for the Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program; and

• an additional $275.0 million for the Bridges Renewal Program.

This brings total commitments to these programs from 2013-14 to $13.1 billion, with:

• $9.1 billion for the Roads to Recovery Program;

• $1.8 billion for the Black Spot Program;

• $963.0 million for the Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program; and

• $1.2 billion for the Bridges Renewal Program.

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Infrastructure Investment Program — Roads of Strategic Importance — next priorities

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - - 100.0 150.0 200.0

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - - 100.0 150.0 200.0

The Government will provide an additional $1.0 billion from 2020-21 for the Roads of Strategic Importance initiative. The funding will support works on regional roads, inter-regional and inter-state highways that address pinch points and other impediments to freight movements. These upgrades will support communities along corridors that are critical for tourists and other road users.

This will bring the Government’s total commitment to the Roads of Strategic Importance initiative to $4.5 billion.

Information on project allocation is provided in the relevant state or territory infrastructure investments measure.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Infrastructure Investment Programme — Roads of Strategic Importance and 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — new investments.

Infrastructure Investment Program — South Australian infrastructure investment

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

40.0 - - - -

Department of the Treasury - 27.8 - 14.4 52.6

Total — Expense 40.0 27.8 - 14.4 52.6

The Government will provide an additional $1.8 billion from 2018-19 for priority regional and urban transport infrastructure in South Australia. The funding includes:

• $1.5 billion for the North-South corridor;

• $259.8 million for a South Australian Rural Roads Package, including:

- $114.4 million for the Safety Package;

- $73.6 million for the Victor Harbor Road duplication — Main South Road to McLaren Vale;

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- $44.0 million for the Horrocks Highway corridor;

- $8.8 million for the Dublin Saleyards Access;

- $7.0 million for the Thomas Foods facility supporting roadworks;

- $6.4 million for the Naracoorte roundabouts;

- $4.8 million for the Kroemers Crossing roundabout; and

- $0.8 million for the Bratten Bridge.

• $40.0 million to continue supplementary local road funding in South Australia for two years.

The Government will allocate $341.0 million to specific projects in South Australia through the Urban Congestion Fund, including from funding provided through the measure Infrastructure Investment Program — Urban Congestion Fund — next priorities. The allocation includes:

• $115.5 million for the Torrens Road (Ovingham) Level Crossing;

• $85.5 million for Brighton Road (Hove) Level Crossing;

• $49.0 million for the Portrush Road and Magill Road Intersection;

• $30.5 million for the Fullarton Road and Cross Road Intersection;

• $17.5 million for the Goodwood, Springbank and Daws Road Intersection Upgrade; and

• $17.5 million for the Glen Osmond Road and Fullarton Road Intersection.

The Government will also allocate $220.0 million to specific projects in South Australia through the Roads of Strategic Importance initiative from funding provided in the 2018-19 Budget. This allocation includes:

• $100.0 million for the Port Augusta to Perth corridor;

• $70.0 million for the Renmark to Gawler corridor; and

• $50.0 million for the Cockburn to Burra corridor.

This is in addition to funding of $200.0 million provided for infrastructure in South Australia, under the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Princes Highway.

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This brings new commitments in the 2019-20 Budget for priority road and rail projects in South Australia under the Infrastructure Investment Program to $2.6 billion. This increases the Government’s total commitment to transport infrastructure projects in South Australia to over $8.2 billion from 2013-14, including grants and other infrastructure related commitments.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Infrastructure Investment Programme — South Australian infrastructure investments.

Infrastructure Investment Program — Supporting Regional Rail — Business Cases

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 22.0 22.0 - -

The Government will provide $44.0 million from 2019-20 for strategic business cases to identify and prioritise upgrades to improve the standard of regional rail networks that connect economic centres with the Australian Rail Track Corporation’s network to accommodate longer, heavier and faster trains and improve the standard of connections, particularly with Inland Rail.

This will complement the Government’s $9.3 billion investment in Inland Rail, a strategic investment in Australia’s freight future.

The Government will also allocate funding for Inland Rail Intermodal Terminal business cases, for an intermodal terminal in Brisbane and for an intermodal terminal in Melbourne to be funded through the Major Project Business Case Fund announced in the 2018-19 Budget.

Infrastructure Investment Program — Tasmanian infrastructure investments

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - - - 30.0 38.0

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - - - 30.0 38.0

The Government will provide an additional $68.0 million from 2021-22 for Tranche 3 of the Tasmanian Freight Rail Revitalisation project.

The Government will allocate $210.0 million to specific projects in Tasmania under the Roads of Strategic Importance initiative, including from funding provided through the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Roads of Strategic Importance — next priorities. The allocation includes:

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• $130.0 million for the Hobart to Sorrell Road Corridor; and

• $80.0 million for Birralee Main Road, Murchison Highway, Old Surrey Road and Massey Greene Drive, and Strahan Road.

The Government will also allocate $35.0 million to specific projects in Tasmania through the Urban Congestion Fund, including from funding provided through the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Urban Congestion Fund — next priorities. The allocation includes:

• $25.0 million for a Hobart Congestion Package; and

• $10.0 million for Tasman Highway Intelligent Transport Solutions.

This brings new commitments in the 2019-20 Budget for priority road projects in Tasmania under the Infrastructure Investment Program to $313.0 million. This increases the Government’s total commitment to transport infrastructure projects in Tasmania to over $2.8 billion from 2013-14, including grants and other infrastructure related commitments.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Infrastructure Investment Programme — Tasmanian infrastructure investments.

Infrastructure Investment Program — Urban Congestion Fund — next priorities

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - 400.0 400.0 400.0 400.0

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - 400.0 400.0 400.0 400.0

The Government will provide an additional $3.0 billion from 2019-20 for the Urban Congestion Fund to support projects, improve traffic safety and flow and increase network efficiency for commuter and freight movements in major urban areas. This funding includes $500.0 million for a National Commuter Car Park Fund.

This will bring the Government’s total commitment to the Urban Congestion Fund to $4.0 billion.

Information on project allocation is provided in the relevant state or territory infrastructure investments measure.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Infrastructure Investment Programme — Urban Congestion Fund.

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Infrastructure Investment Program — Victorian infrastructure investments

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - 98.4 107.4 358.4 636.5

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - 98.4 107.4 358.4 636.5

The Government will provide an additional $2.8 billion from 2019-20 for priority regional and urban transport infrastructure in Victoria. The funding includes:

• $1.1 billion for upgrades to south eastern and northern suburban roads in Melbourne;

• $700.0 million for Stages 2 and 3 of the South Geelong to Waurn Ponds Rail Upgrade;

• $360.0 million for the Western Highway final stage duplication from Ararat to Stawell;

• $300.0 million for sealing roads in the Dandenong Ranges and surrounding regions;

• $208.0 million for Stage 1 of the Shepparton Bypass on the Goulburn Valley Highway; and

• $110.0 million for the Wellington Road Duplication.

The Government will allocate $490.0 million to specific projects in Victoria under the Roads of Strategic Importance initiative, including from funding provided through the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Roads of Strategic Importance — next priorities. The allocation includes:

• $160.0 million for the Toowoomba to Seymour corridor;

• $80.0 million for the South West Victoria corridor;

• $80.0 million for the Echuca to Robinvale corridor, including $60.0 million for the Swan Hill Bridge;

• $60.0 million for the Stawell to the South Australian border corridor;

• $60.0 million for the Melbourne to Mildura corridor; and

• $10.0 million for the Ballarat to Ouyen corridor.

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The Government will allocate $396.3 million to specific projects through the Urban Congestion Fund, including from funding provided through the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Urban Congestion Fund — next priorities. The allocation includes:

• $70.0 million for Thompsons Road Extension;

• $68.0 million for Commuter Car Park Upgrades;

• $65.0 million for the Mornington Peninsula Freeway Grade Separation and Duplication to Boneo Road;

• $50.0 million for the Hume Freeway (Lithgow Street to M80 Ring Road); and

• $50.0 million for Calder Freeway.

The Government will also provide a further $162.0 million for projects under the Victorian Congestion Package, including:

• $70.0 million for Racecourse Road; and

• $50.0 million for Napoleon Road.

The Commonwealth contribution to the Victorian Congestion Package includes $140.0 million already included in the forward estimates and a contribution from the interest earned on the pre-payment to the Victorian Government for East-West Link held by Victoria.

This is in addition to funding of:

• $2.0 billion provided for the delivery of fast rail from Melbourne to Geelong under the measure titled Population Package; and

• $300.0 million provided for road transport infrastructure in Victoria under the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Princes Highway.

This brings new commitments in the 2019-20 Budget for priority road and rail projects in Victoria under the Infrastructure Investment Program to $6.2 billion. This increases the Government’s total commitment to transport infrastructure projects in Victoria to over $27.0 billion from 2013-14, including grants and other infrastructure related commitments.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Infrastructure Investment Programme — Victorian infrastructure investments.

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Infrastructure Investment Program — Western Australian infrastructure investments

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - 17.5 60.0 233.5 132.0

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

Total — Expense - 17.5 60.0 233.5 132.0

The Government will provide an additional $932.6 million from 2019-20 for priority regional and urban transport infrastructure in Western Australia. The funding includes:

• an additional $348.5 million for Tonkin Highway upgrades;

• $207.5 million for the Oats Street, Welshpool Road and Mint Street Level Crossing Removals;

• $140.0 million for the Albany Ring Road;

• an additional $121.6 million for the Bunbury Outer Ring Road; and

• $115.0 million for the upgrade of the Fremantle Traffic Bridge.

The Government will allocate $535.0 million to specific projects in Western Australia under the Roads of Strategic Importance initiative, including from funding provided through the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Roads of Strategic Importance — next priorities. The allocation includes:

• $248.0 million for the Karratha to Tom Price corridor;

• $75.0 million for the Alice Springs to Halls Creek corridor;

• $70.0 million for the Newman to Katherine corridor;

• $70.0 million for the Wheatbelt Secondary Freight Network;

• $50.0 million for the Port Augusta to Perth corridor; and

• $22.0 million for the Pinjarra Heavy Haulage Deviation.

The Government will allocate $121.8 million to specific projects in Western Australia through the Urban Congestion Fund, including from funding provided through the measure titled Infrastructure Investment Program — Urban Congestion — next priorities. The allocation includes:

• $50.0 million for the Kwinana and Mitchell Freeways;

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• $20.0 million for the Lloyd Street Extension, Hazelmere;

• $16.0 million for Mandurah Station Parking Bays;

• $13.3 million for Abernathy Road, Kewdale;

• $10.0 million for Lakelands Station; and

• $10.0 million for Thomas and Nicholson Road, Oakford.

This brings new commitments in the 2019-20 Budget for priority road and rail projects in Western Australia under the Infrastructure Investment Program to $1.6 billion. This increases the Government’s total commitment to transport infrastructure projects in Western Australia to over $13.1 billion from 2013-14, including grants and other infrastructure related commitments.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Infrastructure Investment Programme — Western Australian infrastructure investments.

Land Transport Infrastructure — Enhanced Commonwealth Communication

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

The Government will provide $2.0 million from 2019-20 to the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities to increase its capability to provide information on the delivery of national land transport infrastructure priorities.

Local Government Financial Assistance Grants — prepayment

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

1,275.0 -1,275.0 - - -

The Government will pay half of the expected 2019-20 local government financial assistance grants in 2018-19 to enable the immediate use of these funds. This will provide greater flexibility and support to local governments, particularly in areas affected by severe or unexpected weather events.

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National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy — additional funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 6.2 6.7 0.5 0.5

The Government will provide $16.5 million from 2019-20 for the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities to deliver initiatives as part of the National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy. The funding includes:

• $8.0 million for the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator to streamline the approval process for road access by heavy vehicles, with $6.0 million to fund engineering assessments for local government owned road network infrastructure and $2.0 million to build an asset information collection, storage and sharing system;

• $5.2 million for the design of a freight data hub, including arrangements for data collection, protection, dissemination and hosting; and

• $3.3 million for the establishment of a freight data exchange pilot to allow industry to access freight data in real time and a survey of road usage for freight purposes.

The cost of this measure will be partially met from within the existing resources of the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy — development.

Norfolk Island — additional funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 4.2 4.2 - -

The Government will provide an additional $8.4 million over two years from 2019-20 to support service delivery on Norfolk Island.

The additional funding will improve the delivery of state-level services on Norfolk Island, significantly advance the response to the biosecurity threat of Argentine ants, continue to enable ongoing maintenance in the Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area, and underwriting of freight and passenger air services.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Norfolk Island — additional funding.

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Regional Airports Program — establishment

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 10.0 35.0 35.0 20.0

The Government will provide $102.8 million from 2019-20 to establish the Regional Airports Program that will provide grants to upgrade infrastructure and deliver improved aviation safety and access at regional airports.

The $2.8 million departmental cost of this measure will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities.

Stronger Communities Programme — round five

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- 26.4 0.4 - -

The Government will provide $26.8 million over two years from 2019-20 for round five of the Stronger Communities Programme. The Stronger Communities Programme provides funding of between $2,500 and $20,000 for small capital projects that deliver social benefits for local communities across Australia.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Stronger Communities Programme — round four.

This investment increases the total funding provided for the Stronger Communities Programme to $103.9 million.

Women in Aviation

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

- - - - -

The Government will provide $4.0 million over four years from 2018-19 for a range of initiatives to increase female participation in the aviation industry.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 8 March 2019 issued by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development and the Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations and

Minister for Women.

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JOBS AND SMALL BUSINESS

Addressing Sham Contracting

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity

- 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3

The Government will provide $9.2 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $2.3 million per year ongoing) to establish a dedicated sham contracting unit within the Fair Work Ombudsman to address sham contracting behaviour engaged in by some employers, particularly those who knowingly or recklessly misrepresent employment relationships as independent contracts to avoid statutory obligations and employment entitlements. The unit will more effectively tackle sham contracting by increasing education, compliance and enforcement activities, and dedicating additional resources to investigate and litigate cases.

Australian Small Business Advisory Services Northern Australia Tourism Initiative — extension

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Jobs and Small Business - 0.8 - - -

The Government will provide $0.8 million in 2019-20 to extend the Australian Small Business Advisory Services Northern Australia Tourism Initiative (ASBAS-NATI) by six months to 31 December 2019 to continue the provision of advisory services to tourism related small businesses in northern Australia.

Low cost advisory services available under ASBAS-NATI cover areas including funding avenues and financial analysis, management capabilities and digital engagement implementation.

Better Targeting of Support for Refugees

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Human Services .. 0.8 -0.2 -0.2 -0.2

Department of Jobs and Small Business - -8.5 -21.6 -22.9 -25.4

Total — Expense .. -7.7 -21.8 -23.1 -25.5

Related capital ($m)

Department of Jobs and Small Business - 0.1 - - -

The Government will achieve efficiencies of $77.9 million over four years from 2019- 20 by streamlining the employment servicing arrangement for newly arrived refugees.

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Newly arrived refugees would only be required to enter into jobactive services once they have been receiving income support for 12 months, rather than the current requirement of six months.

This measure will improve the sequencing of services available to refugees through programs such as the Humanitarian Settlement Program, the Adult Migrant English Program and jobactive, assisting refugees to focus on settlement and language assistance during their first 12 months after arrival.

This measure also extends full jobactive access to refugees who seek to use its services on a voluntary basis anytime from their arrival, provided they are otherwise eligible for jobactive.

The savings from this measure will be redirected by the Government to repair the Budget and fund policy priorities.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Streamlining Services for Refugees.

Fair Work Commission — appointment of additional Members

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Fair Work Commission - - - - -

The Government will provide $4.3 million over four years from 2018-19 (and $1.3 million per year ongoing) to the Fair Work Commission to support new appointments to assist the Commission in the execution of its functions under the Fair Work Act 2009.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the press release of 7 December 2018 issued by the Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations.

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Harvest Labour Services — reforms to encourage Australian jobseekers to take up seasonal work

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Jobs and Small Business - 1.2 7.1 8.3 6.8

Related capital ($m)

Department of Jobs and Small Business - 0.7 - - -

The Government will provide $24.1 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $6.8 million per year ongoing) to reform the Harvest Labour Services (HLS) to encourage more Australian jobseekers to take up seasonal harvest jobs. The reform will commence from 1 July 2020, and includes:

• expansion of current HLS regions from 11 to 16 rural and remote regions where there is significant demand for seasonal work;

• improving the accessibility of the Harvest Trail website and providing more information on the local job opportunities and services available for employers and jobseekers; and

• incentivising HLS providers to place Australian jobseekers into seasonal work by introducing 4-week, 12-week and 26-week outcome payments.

The Government will also work with industry to promote seasonal work opportunities.

New Employment Services Model — pilot and transitional arrangements

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Human Services 1.4 1.2 0.2 0.2 0.4

Department of Jobs and Small Business 0.4 -20.8 -10.1 -50.5 -7.5

Total — Expense 1.8 -19.6 -9.9 -50.3 -7.1

Related capital ($m)

Department of Jobs and Small Business 0.8 19.3 5.2 0.4 -

The Government will provide $249.8 million over five years from 2018-19 (including $25.7 million in capital funding over four years from 2018-19) to pilot key elements of a new employment services model (the Pilot) from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2022, prior to a national rollout, and to extend existing deeds for jobactive and several related programs, until 30 June 2022 to enable continuation of employment services while the new employment services model is being trialled.

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The Pilot will involve approximately 95,000 jobseekers in Adelaide South, South Australia and Mid North Coast, New South Wales. The Pilot will provide digital employment servicing with associated training for job-ready jobseekers and enhanced services for disadvantaged jobseekers. The Pilot will be implemented in phases with enhancements to the digital system progressively rolled out throughout the trial.

This measure includes extending the Online Employment Services Trial for two years to 30 June 2022, providing digital employment services nationally to an additional 84,000 job-ready jobseekers rather than face-to-face through service providers, and additional funding in 2020-21 to the Employment Fund to enhance support for jobseekers.

The measure provides net efficiencies of $59.4 million over five years from 2018-19 due to reduction in expenditure for face-to-face servicing arrangements that would have been paid under jobactive. Importantly, savings from digital servicing will be reinvested in the employment services system to provide a more intensive, targeted and tailored service for those who need extra help in addressing their barrier to getting a job.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Online Employment Services Trial — expansion, and the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Online Employment Services Trial.

Further information can be found in the press release of 20 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations.

Protecting Vulnerable Workers — National Labour Hire Registration Scheme and other measures

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity

- 5.7 7.7 6.2 6.2

Related revenue ($m)

Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity

- 2.4 5.3 3.7 3.6

Related capital ($m)

Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity

- 0.8 0.1 0.1 0.1

The Government will provide $26.8 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $6.2 million per year ongoing), including $1.0 million over four years in capital funding, to establish a National Labour Hire Registration Scheme (the Scheme) to protect vulnerable workers, including migrant workers.

The Scheme will make it mandatory for labour hire operators in high-risk sectors, such as horticulture, cleaning, meat processing and security sectors, to register with the

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Australian Government as a labour hire operator. The Scheme will provide visibility of businesses operating in the labour supply industry, introduce a pre-entry requirement to those operating as a labour hire business, help to reduce worker exploitation, and drive behavioural change in the industry.

The cost of administering the Scheme will be recovered from the registered labour hire operators through prescribed annual fees and charges.

The measure also includes $10.8 million over four years from 2019-20 to enhance the Fair Work Ombudsman’s capacity to conduct investigations into underpayment and related issues, and deliver information and education activities. This will raise vulnerable workers’ awareness of their rights and of the Government help available to them, and will also raise employers’ awareness of their responsibilities under the workplace laws.

Further information can be found in the press release of 7 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations.

Seasonal Worker Programme — pilot to address regional workforce shortages

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Jobs and Small Business 0.4 0.9 - - -

Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity

0.3 1.3 - - -

Total — Expense 0.6 2.2 - - -

The Government will provide $2.9 million over two years from 2018-19 to implement a 12-month pilot program (the Pilot) to improve small farmers’ access to workers through the existing Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP). The Pilot will simplify SWP requirements to make it easier and quicker for labour hire approved employers under the SWP to recruit and move seasonal workers between smaller farms. The Pilot will be implemented in up to three regions.

The measure includes $1.6 million over two years from 2018-19 for the Fair Work Ombudsman to increase education, monitoring and investigation activities relating to SWP employers participating in the Pilot.

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Workplace Advice Service — expansion

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Fair Work Commission - - - - -

The Government will provide $1.4 million over four years from 2018-19 (and $0.4 million per year ongoing) to expand the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) Workplace Advice Service clinics from 1 January 2019. This funding will enable approximately 35,000 small business employers and self-represented workers to access free legal advice on employment law.

The service will continue to be delivered as a joint initiative of the FWC and various legal service organisations in each state, with participating legal service organisations meeting their own costs.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the press release of 11 February 2019 issued by the Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations.

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Australia Day — additional support

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

- 0.3 0.3 0.3 -

The Government will provide $0.8 million over three years from 2019-20 to provide additional support for Australia Day activities and funding to undertake a review of the National Australia Day Council’s programs.

Closing the Gap refresh — Indigenous Youth Education Package

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Education and Training 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.6 63.6

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

- 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.8

Australian Taxation Office - 0.9 .. .. -

Total — Expense 1.7 8.3 7.3 7.3 69.4

Related revenue ($m)

Department of Education and Training

- .. -0.1 -0.1 -0.2

The Government will provide $276.5 million over five years from 2018-19 to support Indigenous students to undertake and complete study to help close the gap in education outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.

The Government will provide $200.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to fund additional scholarship placements and mentoring support for Indigenous students. Scholarships will support young Indigenous students to access education and mentoring opportunities, and will help improve the rate of Indigenous people completing secondary school.

To encourage teachers to work in remote communities, the Government will extinguish Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debt incurred for recognised teaching qualifications after teachers have been placed in very remote locations of Australia for four years (or part time equivalent), at an estimated cost of $70.6 million over five years from 2018-19. To be eligible, the four year placement must commence on or after the start of the 2019 school year. Additionally, from 14 February 2019 indexation will no longer accrue on the HELP debts of all teachers while they are placed in very remote locations. The Government will also provide $5.0 million to undertake a range of projects to promote school attendance in remote communities.

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The cost of the package of measures will be partially met from within the existing resources of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 14 February 2019 issued by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Indigenous Affairs.

Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples — Co-design process

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

- - - - -

The Government will provide $7.3 million in 2019-20 for the co-design of options for a Voice to Parliament for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The co-design of a model to improve local and regional decision-making will involve engagement and consultation with Indigenous communities and organisations across Australia and is consistent with a recommendation of the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition Relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

The Government remains committed to the process of constitutional recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and will conduct a referendum once a model has been settled, consistent with the recommendations of the Joint Select Committee.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

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Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - 15.2 - - -

Department of Human Services - 7.2 -9.8 - -

Digital Transformation Agency - 6.5 - - -

Department of Finance - 0.1 - - -

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

- - - - -

Department of Home Affairs - - - - -

Total — Expense - 29.0 -9.8 - -

Related capital ($m)

Australian Taxation Office - 18.1 - - -

Department of Human Services

- 9.1 - - -

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

- - - - -

Department of Home Affairs - - - - -

Total — Capital - 27.2 - - -

The Government will provide $67.1 million in 2019-20 to continue the development of the GovPass Program. GovPass enables the creation of a digital identity for Australian citizens which will allow them to access government services online. This funding will support the continued development of the underlying infrastructure of the system and roll out pilot programs that commenced in 2018-19, and will support further analysis of the requirements for the full rollout of GovPass.

The GovPass Program is a key component in the further digital transformation of Government and supports the Government’s commitment to better and more accessible digital services.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Delivering Australia’s Digital Future — GovPass Program — accelerated implementation.

Indigenous Suicide Prevention Initiatives

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

- 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3

The Government will provide $5.0 million over four years from 2019-20 to implement Indigenous suicide prevention initiatives. These will be led by local youth Indigenous leaders to ensure that support is culturally appropriate and tailored to meet the specific needs of affected communities.

This is in addition to funding delivered under the Indigenous Advancement Strategy.

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National Office for Child Safety — additional funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

- 1.9 1.2 1.0 1.0

The Government will provide $5.1 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $1.0 million per year ongoing) to the National Office for Child Safety within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, to provide national leadership in the implementation of the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and to progress work in response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Remote Housing in South Australia

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury 37.5 - - - -

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

- - - - -

Total — Expense 37.5 - - - -

The Government will provide $37.5 million in 2018-19 to South Australia to assist with costs associated with the provision of remote housing. The payment is part of transition arrangements with South Australia having assumed full responsibility for housing in remote communities following the expiry of the National Partnership on Remote Housing on 30 June 2018.

Social Impact Investing

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

- 5.0 - - -

The Government will provide $5.0 million in 2019-20 to establish a taskforce within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to examine the Commonwealth’s role in the Social Impact Investment market.

Building on work already undertaken, the taskforce will develop the next stage of a strategy for the Commonwealth’s role in the market, leveraging international, private sector and state and territory government experience to identify a way forward for the Commonwealth’s social impact investments, including how these investments can provide solutions for entrenched disadvantage.

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SOCIAL SERVICES

Australian Disability Enterprises — additional support

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Social Services - - - - -

The Government will provide $67.0 million over five years from 2018-19 to support Australian Disability Enterprises (ADEs) in transitioning to a new wage assessment model. This follows a review of the Supported Employment Services Award 2010 by the Fair Work Commission.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled Australian Disability Enterprises — additional support.

Building Social Cohesion for Newly Arrived Migrants

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Social Services - 6.0 7.3 4.6 4.7

The Government will provide an additional $22.6 million over four years from 2019-20 to expand and extend the National Community Hubs Program (NCHP) and establish the National Youth Hubs Program (NYHP).

The measure will expand the NCHP network to an additional 32 sites, taking the total to 100, and provide funding on an ongoing basis. The measure will also establish 25 NYHP sites which will provide services targeted at the needs of young people. The expanded network of Community and Youth Hubs will provide migrants with access to services, support and learning opportunities, which will assist with integrating with the Australian community and in improving employment outcomes.

Cashless Debit Card — further extension and expansion

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Administrative Appeals Tribunal - nfp nfp - -

Department of Human Services - nfp nfp - -

Department of Social Services - nfp nfp nfp nfp

Total — Expense - nfp nfp nfp nfp

The Government will provide $128.8 million over four years to extend the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) trials for a further year to 30 June 2021. The process to transition Income Management (IM) participants to the CDC will begin on 1 January 2020.

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This funding will also allow for the expansion and further enhancements to the CDC supporting technology, including allowing interest to be calculated and paid on any funds accrued in CDC accounts from 1 July 2019.

The expenditure for this measure is not for publication (nfp) as negotiations with potential commercial providers are yet to be finalised.

This measures extends 2018-19 MYEFO measures titled Cashless Debit Card Trial — extension and expansion and Income Management — extension and consultation.

Further information can be found in the press release of 25 March 2019 issued by the Minister for Families and Social Services.

Changing the Social Security Income Assessment Model

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Human Services 1.2 20.3 8.7 .. -

Department of Social Services - 0.2 -655.6 -706.8 -756.0

Total — Expense 1.2 20.5 -646.9 -706.8 -756.0

The Government will achieve savings of $2.1 billion over five years from 2018-19 by simplifying and automating the reporting of employment income for social security purposes through Single Touch Payroll (STP).

From 1 July 2020, income support recipients who are employed will report income that is received during the fortnight, rather than calculating and reporting their earnings. Each fortnight, income data received through an expansion of STP data-sharing arrangements will also be shared with the Department of Human Services, for recipients with employers utilising STP.

This measure will assist income support recipients by greatly reducing the likelihood of them receiving an overpayment of income support payments (and subsequently being required to repay it).

The efficiencies from this measure will be derived through more accurate reporting of incomes. This measure will not change eligibility criteria or maximum payment rates. The resulting efficiencies will be redirected by the Government to repair the Budget and fund policy priorities.

See also the related expense measure titled Single Touch Payroll — expansion in the Treasury portfolio.

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Energy Assistance Payment

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Social Services 257.1 0.7 - - -

Department of Veterans’ Affairs 16.6 0.8 - - -

Department of Human Services 9.0 0.2 - - -

Total — Expense 282.7 1.7 - - -

The Government will provide $284.4 million over two years from 2018-19 to make a one-off Energy Assistance Payment of $75 for singles and $62.50 for each member of a couple eligible for qualifying payments on 2 April 2019 and who are resident in Australia.

Qualifying payments are the Age Pension, Carer Payment, Disability Support Pension, Parenting Payment Single, the Veterans’ Service Pension and the Veterans’ Income Support Supplement, Veterans’ disability payments, War Widow(er)s Pension, and permanent impairment payments under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 (including dependent partners) and the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.

This measure builds on the 2017-18 Budget measure titled Energy Assistance Payment.

Establishing the National Centre for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Social Services - 2.3 4.7 5.0 4.6

The Government will provide $25.5 million over six years from 2019-20 (including $4.4 million in 2023-24 and in 2024-25) to establish an independent National Centre for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (the Centre) to reduce stigma, raise awareness, and prevent child sexual abuse. The Centre will commence operation in 2020-21.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 MYEFO measure titled National Centre for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse.

Extending Family Tax Benefit to ABSTUDY recipients aged 16 and over who study away from home

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Human Services 0.1 4.2 0.9 0.5 0.5

Department of Social Services - 4.0 8.4 8.7 9.1

Total — Expense 0.1 8.3 9.3 9.2 9.6

The Government will provide $36.4 million over five years from 2018-19 to extend Family Tax Benefit eligibility to the families of ABSTUDY (secondary) student

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recipients who are aged 16 years and over, and are required to live away from home to attend school. This will improve access to secondary education for Indigenous Australians and help reduce the gap in outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in high school completion.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled 50 Years of ABSTUDY — strengthening ABSTUDY for secondary students.

Fourth Action Plan (2019-22) to reduce violence against women and their children

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Social Services - 66.7 113.9 69.5 -

Department of the Treasury - 2.7 2.8 2.8 -

Department of Health - 2.5 2.5 2.5 -

Department of Education and Training

- 1.7 0.6 0.6 -

Australian Communications and Media Authority - 1.4 1.3 1.3 -

Attorney-General’s Department - 1.2 0.7 0.7 -

Department of Finance - 0.1 - - -

Department of Human Services - - - - -

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

-2.5 0.4 0.9 0.7 -

Total — Expense -2.5 76.7 122.7 78.1 -

The Government will provide $328.0 million over four years from 2018-19 towards initiatives to reduce domestic and family violence against women and children. These initiatives will form the Commonwealth’s contribution to the Fourth Action Plan 2019-22 (the Plan) under the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 2010-2022, and include:

• $64.0 million in additional funding over two years to ensure that 1800RESPECT is able to meet forecast increases in demand, update its online services and increase accessibility for vulnerable cohorts;

• $75.4 million to provide emergency accommodation for women and children escaping domestic and family violence and to continue the Keeping Women Safe in their Homes program;

• $110.9 million to improve a range of existing domestic and family violence support services, including: delivering a range of prevention initiatives including Australia’s first prevention hub and the social media platform The Line; expanding the number of specialised family violence services and family and relationship services sites; and expanding the Support for Trafficked People Program;

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• $35.0 million to address the specific needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by violence, including providing greater support for Indigenous women and children in remote areas and supporting practical intervention programs to work with Indigenous young people and adults at risk of experiencing or committing family violence;

• $7.5 million to expand the Recognise, Respond, Refer pilot program, which includes referral pathways for people at risk of domestic and family violence and the delivery of training to general practice staff to recognise the signs of domestic and family violence; and

• improving service delivery for people affected by domestic and family violence with the Department of Human Services to provide streamlined services from within its existing resources.

The Plan will also provide funding to support initiatives to prevent domestic and family violence through:

• $11.0 million to improve collaboration and information sharing between the Federal Family Law system and state family violence and child protection agencies to help prevent instances where courts are not advised of family violence risks documented in state systems;

• $2.0 million for the Office for Women to support the development of strategies for the prevention of financial abuse;

• $2.1 million to provide national training for the primary care workforce to improve the family violence response capabilities of medical staff;

• $2.8 million to encourage respectful relationships and support student safety and wellbeing under the Respect Matters initiative; and

• $4.0 million for the Australian Communications Media Authority to identify, report and support victims of technology facilitated abuse in high-risk Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and women who have intellectual disabilities to help protect themselves online.

The Plan will also provide $13.4 million for a range of domestic and family violence support services to assist vulnerable women.

This measure builds on the $100.0 million that was provided through the 2016-17 Budget measure titled Domestic and Family Violence — new initiatives to break the cycle of violence which was a part of the Third Action Plan (2016-19), as well as other related domestic violence initiatives such as the 2018-19 Budget measures titled Domestic Violence Response Training (DV Alert) and Enhanced Support for 1800RESPECT.

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The cost of this measure will be partially met from within existing Government resources.

Further information can be found in the fact sheet Our Investment in Women’s Safety and the joint press release of 5 March 2019 by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Families and Social Services, and the Minister for Women.

Increasing workforce participation for young adults with Down syndrome

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Social Services - - - - -

The Government will provide $0.3 million in 2018-19 to the not-for-profit organisation e.motion21 for a 12-month pilot program, Impact21, to support education and employment of young people with Down syndrome.

Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Further information can be found in the press release of 10 February 2019 issued by The Treasurer and the Assistant Minister for Social Services, Housing and Disability Services.

Integrated Carer Support Service — additional support for young carers

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Social Services - 18.2 21.9 22.5 21.7

The Government will provide an additional $84.3 million over four years from 2019-20 to expand the Integrated Carer Support Service.

The additional funding will increase the availability of carer support, with young carers prioritised to enable continued participation in education and training. The additional funding will be provided to expand the Regional Delivery Partners network from 11 to 16 providers.

The measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Integrated Carer Support Services.

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Mutual Understanding, Support, Tolerance, Engagement and Respect Initiative — additional funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Social Services 7.0 - - - -

The Government will provide an additional $7.0 million in 2018-19 to support the Mutual Understanding, Support, Tolerance, Engagement and Respect Initiative — establishment measure, announced in the 2018-19 MYEFO.

National Disability Insurance Scheme — transitioning to full Scheme

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Finance - - - - -

Department of the Treasury - - - - -

Total — Expense - - - - -

Related revenue ($m)

Department of Finance - - - - -

The Government has progressed the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) by finalising the agreements to commence full Scheme in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and Northern Territory (NT) from 1 July 2019, including arrangements under the DisabilityCare Australia Fund to partially reimburse the ACT and NT for the cost of implementing the Scheme.

Once fully implemented, it is estimated the NDIS will provide reasonable and necessary supports to over 460,000 eligible people with a significant and permanent disability.

Provision for the NDIS in the ACT and NT is already included in the forward estimates, reflecting full Scheme agreements and the National Partnership Agreement on DisabilityCare Australia Fund Payments.

Social Impact Investing — payment by outcomes trials

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Social Services -0.5 3.0 1.6 4.1 5.9

The Government will provide $14.1 million over five years from 2018-19 to establish three social impact investment trials in the social services sector.

The trials will be of payment-by-outcome arrangements for initiatives that increase the workforce participation of people who receive income support payments and strengthen the wellbeing and self-reliance of families with children. This will provide

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service providers with the capacity to flexibly deploy strategies that meet the needs of individuals and reward providers who achieve successful outcomes.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Social Impact Investing — trial.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics — 2021 Census — additional funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Bureau of Statistics - 31.2 32.0 -24.9 -

The Government will provide an additional $38.3 million over three years from 2019-20 to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to facilitate the delivery of the 2021 Census. The additional funding will address issues arising from the 2016 Census, including responding to the recommendations of the Senate Inquiry and the MacGibbon Review.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Agriculture Unit — continuation

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

- 2.7 - - -

The Government will provide $2.7 million in 2019-20 to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to continue the operations of its Agriculture Unit. The Unit is responsible for enforcement and compliance activities to promote competitive agricultural markets.

Australian Energy Regulator — resourcing for new and expanded functions

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

- 5.4 2.7 2.6 2.6

The Government will provide $13.3 million over four years from 2019-20 to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to support the increased workload of the Australian Energy Regulator. The increased workload relates to rule changes by the Australian Energy Market Commission and decisions of the COAG Energy Council aimed at improving access to reliable, affordable energy.

Commercial Construction Unit — additional funding

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

- 1.3 2.7 2.7 2.7

The Government will provide $9.4 million over four years from 2019-20 to the Australian Competition Consumer Commission (ACCC) to continue and expand investigations in the commercial construction sector.

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This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Commercial Construction Unit — extension.

Commonwealth Grants Commission — ICT strategy and transformation

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Commonwealth Grants Commission

- 2.2 2.4 2.1 2.0

Related capital ($m)

Commonwealth Grants Commission

- 0.8 1.0 1.0 0.2

The Government will provide $11.7 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $2.2 million per year ongoing) to improve the Commonwealth Grants Commission’s (CGC) ICT capacity. This measure will enhance the CGC’s ability to support the distribution of the GST revenues among the States and Territories.

Electronic Invoicing Adoption

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Human Services 1.0 - - - -

Australian Taxation Office -2.3 1.3 - - -

Total — Expense -1.3 1.3 - - -

The Government will provide $1.0 million in 2018-19 to the Department of Human Services to facilitate the implementation and adoption of e-invoicing in Australia and $1.3 million in 2019-20 to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to establish a local Pan-European Public Procurement On-line (PEPPOL) authority.

PEPPOL is a framework for e-invoicing currently used across 32 countries.

The cost of this measure will be funded by redirecting $2.3 million provided to the ATO in the 2018-19 MYEFO for the development of e-invoicing in Australia.

Further information can be found in the press release of 22 February 2019 issued by the Assistant Treasurer.

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Government Response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury 3.8 -7.8 3.5 4.3 2.2

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

- 38.5 118.8 126.8 112.4

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

- 16.9 19.0 21.1 19.7

Office of Parliamentary Counsel - 0.9 - - -

Total — Expense 3.8 48.6 141.3 152.2 134.3

Related revenue ($m)

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

- 20.9 21.6 21.7 20.3

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

- - 40.5 122.2 128.5

Total — Revenue - 20.9 62.1 143.9 148.8

Related capital ($m)

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

- 3.0 - - -

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

- 2.0 3.4 1.8 1.2

Total — Capital - 5.0 3.4 1.8 1.2

The Government will provide $606.7 million over five years from 2018-19 to facilitate the Government’s response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (the Royal Commission). The package comprises a suite of measures that fulfil the Government’s commitment to take action on all 76 of the recommendations of the Royal Commission’s Final Report, including:

• designing and implementing an industry funded compensation scheme of last resort for consumers and small business ($2.6 million over two years from 2019-20);

• providing the Australian Financial Complaints Authority with additional funding to help establish a historical redress scheme to consider eligible financial complaints dating back to 1 January 2008 ($2.8 million in 2018-19);

• paying compensation owed to consumers and small businesses from legacy unpaid external dispute resolution determinations ($30.7 million in 2019-20);

• resourcing the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to implement its new enforcement strategy and expand its capabilities and roles in accordance with the recommendations of the Royal Commission ($404.8 million over four years from 2019-20);

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• resourcing the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to strengthen its supervisory and enforcement activities which will support its response to key areas of concern raised by the Royal Commission, including with respect to governance, culture and remuneration ($145.0 million over four years from 2019-20);

• establishing an independent financial regulator oversight authority, to assess and report on the effectiveness of ASIC and APRA in discharging their functions and meeting their statutory objectives ($7.7 million over three years from 2020-21);

• undertaking a capability review of APRA which will examine its effectiveness and efficiency in delivering its statutory mandate, as well as its capability to respond to the Royal Commission ($1.0 million in 2018-19);

• establishing a Financial Services Reform Implementation Taskforce within the Treasury to implement the Government’s response to the Royal Commission, and co-ordinate reform efforts with APRA, ASIC and other agencies through an implementation steering committee ($11.2 million in 2019-20); and

• providing the Office of Parliamentary Counsel with additional funding for the volume of legislative drafting that will be required to implement the Government’s response to the Royal Commission ($0.9 million in 2019-20).

The cost of this measure will be partially offset by revenue received through ASIC’s industry funding model and increases in the APRA Financial Institutions Supervisory Levies and from funding already provisioned in the Budget.

Further information on these reforms can be found in the Government’s response to the Royal Commission’s recommendations announced by the Prime Minister and The Treasurer on 4 February 2019.

Helping Small Business Grow — supporting small businesses with tax disputes

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Administrative Appeals Tribunal 1.3 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.8

Australian Taxation Office 1.0 5.2 7.8 7.9 7.9

Department of Jobs and Small Business 0.9 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7

Total — Expense 3.2 11.6 14.2 14.3 14.3

Related revenue ($m)

Administrative Appeals Tribunal

0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3

The Government will provide $57.5 million over five years from 2018-19 to the Department of Jobs and Small Business, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to provide access to a fast, low cost,

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independent review mechanism for small businesses in dispute with the ATO. The measure came into effect on 1 March 2019.

This measure includes $1.4 million in revenue from application fees for the review of decisions by the AAT.

Further information can be found in the press release of 12 February 2019 issued by the Assistant Treasurer.

Improving Audit Quality

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Office of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board

- 0.3 0.3 0.3 -

The Government will provide $0.8 million over three years from 2019-20 to the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board to improve audit quality in Australia through increased support for the Financial Reporting Council’s Audit Quality Action Plan, and to support the Chair’s three year appointment to the International Accounting Standards Board.

Reducing costs for super industry by including superannuation release authorities in electronic SuperStream Rollover standard

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - - 4.5 1.2 1.2

Related capital ($m)

Australian Taxation Office - - 12.6 - -

The Government will provide $19.3 million over three years from 2020-21 (including $12.6 million in capital funding in 2020-21) to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to send electronic requests to superannuation funds for the release of money required under a number of superannuation arrangements.

This change, which will take effect from 31 March 2021, will be implemented by expanding the electronic SuperStream Rollover Standard used for the transfer of information and money between employers, superannuation funds and the ATO. The start date of Self-Managed Superannuation Funds rollovers in SuperStream will be delayed until 31 March 2021 to coincide with the expansion of the SuperStream Rollover Standard.

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Single Touch Payroll — expansion

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Taxation Office - 20.2 13.3 10.5 9.3

Department of Veterans’ Affairs - 4.8 5.9 1.2 1.2

Total — Expense - 25.0 19.2 11.7 10.5

Related capital ($m)

Australian Taxation Office - 9.9 0.6 0.7 0.7

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

- 1.4 2.7 - -

Total — Capital - 11.3 3.3 0.7 0.7

The Government will provide $82.4 million over four years from 2019-20 (including capital funding of $16.0 million over four years from 2019-20) to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to support the expansion of the data collected through Single Touch Payroll (STP) by the ATO and the use of this data by Commonwealth agencies.

STP data will be expanded to include more information about gross pay amounts and other details. These changes will reduce the compliance burden for employers and individuals reporting information to multiple Government agencies.

Strengthening Adoption of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - - - - -

The Government will provide $0.8 million over four years from 2019-20 to establish an Independent Reviewer of arbitration decisions as part of its response to the review of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct.

Under revisions to the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct, which will be subject to public consultation, each signatory will be required to appoint an independent Code Arbiter to consider disputes between the signatory and suppliers. Suppliers will be able to request that the Independent Reviewer review the process leading to the decision of a Code Arbiter.

The cost of this measure will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of the Treasury.

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Superannuation Complaints Tribunal — completion of casework

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

- - 2.1 0.1 0.1

Related revenue ($m)

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

- - 2.1 0.1 0.1

The Government will provide an additional $2.3 million over three years from 2020-21 to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT) to resolve outstanding complaints by 31 December 2020, when the SCT will cease operations. This follows the delayed commencement of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority and will allow ASIC to manage the closure of the SCT.

The cost of this measure will be offset by a corresponding increase in the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Financial Institutions Supervisory Levies.

This measure extends the 2017-18 MYEFO measure titled Taking Action Now — Australian Financial Complaints Authority.

Superannuation Consumer Advocate

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of the Treasury - - - - -

The Government will provide $0.1 million in 2019-20 to undertake an expression of interest process to identify options to support the establishment of a Superannuation Consumer Advocate. The Advocate would provide input on behalf of consumers in policy discussions and provide information to educate and assist consumers navigate the superannuation system.

The costs of the measure will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of the Treasury.

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VETERANS’ AFFAIRS

Assistance for veterans prescribed anti-malarial medications

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Veterans’ Affairs - 0.7 0.7 0.4 0.2

The Government will provide $2.1 million over four years from 2019-20 for a national program to assist veterans who are concerned about their use of the anti-malarial medications Mefloquine or Tafenoquine while serving in the Australian Defence Force.

Commemoration of Australians who served overseas in World War I

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Veterans’ Affairs - 3.5 - - -

The Government will provide $3.0 million in 2019-20 to enable commemorations of those Australians who served overseas in World War I to continue. This will include delivery of the 2020 Anzac Day services at the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France, and at the Anzac Commemorative Site, Gallipoli, Turkey.

This funding includes the essential costs of ensuring the safety and security of Australians attending these commemorations.

The Government will also provide $0.5 million in 2019-20 for a scoping study for a commemorative site centred on the former site of an Australian Field Hospital on the Greek Island of Lemnos.

Improved Access to Health Care for Australian Civilian Surgical and Medical Team members who worked in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Veterans’ Affairs - 4.8 .. - -

Comcare - - - - -

Department of Health - -0.6 .. - -

Total — Expense - 4.2 .. - -

Related capital ($m)

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

- 0.3 - - -

The Government will provide $22.2 million over five years from 2018-19 to extend eligibility for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs Health Card — All Conditions within Australia (Gold Card) and the Veterans’ Supplement. From 1 July 2019, members of the Australian Civilian Surgical and Medical Teams who provided medical aid and training within civilian hospitals in South Vietnam under a South East

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Asian Treaty Organisation civilian aid program between October 1964 and December 1972, will be eligible.

Provision for $17.6 million of this funding has already been included in the forward estimates.

Further information can be found in the joint press release of 14 February 2019 issued by the Treasurer and the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs.

Partner Service Pensions — eligibility alignment

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Veterans’ Affairs - 1.3 1.5 1.4 1.4

Related capital ($m)

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

- 0.8 - - -

The Government will provide $6.2 million over four years from 2019-20 (and $1.4 million per year ongoing) to ensure equal treatment of former spouses and former de-facto partners of veterans concerning access to the partner service pension when they separate from their veteran partner.

Both former spouses and former de-facto partners of veterans will be able to continue to receive the partner service pension after their relationship with their veteran partner has ended, including as a result of family or domestic violence.

Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — new and amended listings

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Veterans’ Affairs - .. .. .. ..

The Government has agreed to a number of new and amended listings on the Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits, which will result in a net save of $99,000 over four years from 2019-20. The save is primarily due to the cost of new items being less than comparable items already listed.

The new listings and price amendments have been recommended by the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Reference Committee, which advises on the clinical appropriateness of items to be made available under the Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits.

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Supporting Veterans

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Veterans’ Affairs - 11.7 4.0 3.8 4.0

Department of Health - -3.0 - - -

Total — Expense - 8.7 4.0 3.8 4.0

The Government will provide $24.4 million over four years from 2019-20 to continue its strong support of veterans, including:

• $16.2 million over four years from 2019-20 to further boost the Prime Minister’s Veterans’ Employment Program by providing grants to not-for-profit organisations to deliver innovative programs to support veterans to find meaningful employment;

• $4.2 million in 2019-20 to extend the Provisional Access to Medical Treatment Trial for one year. This program provides access to funded medical treatment for ill and injured veterans who have submitted a claim under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 and the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988 and are waiting for a liability determination. The Provisional Access to Medical Treatment Trial was part of the 2017-18 Budget measure titled Veteran Centric Reform; and

• $4.0 million over four years from 2019-20 for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to provide intervention training to volunteers who work with veterans to recognise people at risk. This training will enhance the capability of volunteers to recognise people at risk, and to provide intervention and support. Funding for this measure has already been provided for by the Government.

Veteran Centric Reform — putting veterans and their families first

Expense ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Human Services - 40.4 44.8 16.2 9.8

Department of Veterans’ Affairs - 28.7 -28.4 -71.5 -71.7

Department of Finance - 0.1 0.1 - -

Total — Expense - 69.2 16.5 -55.3 -61.9

Related capital ($m)

Department of Human Services

- 9.7 4.1 0.8 0.2

The Government is committed to putting veterans and their families first and ensuring they receive the respect, recognition and support they deserve. The Government will continue to invest in the transformation of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and will:

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• further enhance the MyService online portal to expand the types of claims that veterans can make online and streamline claim processing;

• improve and simplify the telephone system and move to a single phone number, 1800 VETERAN;

• introduce new information and communication technology systems to better serve veterans and their families in a more secure and reliable manner;

• simplify and consolidate the list of aids and appliances provided to the veteran community;

• increase the use of data and analytics, including improving treatment pathways and monitoring the quality of care provided to veterans and their families; and

• continue to reform and improve inefficient and out-dated processes.

This measure will achieve net efficiencies of $16.8 million over four years from 2019-20 which will be reinvested in other veterans’ priorities.

This measure builds on the 2018-19 Budget measure titled Delivering Australia’s Digital Future — Veteran Centric Reform — continuation.

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2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

AGRICULTURE AND WATER RESOURCES

Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

Enhancing Australia's Agricultural Trade(b) - 1.2 - - -

Portfolio total - 1.2 - - -

ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S

Attorney-General's Department

Countering Foreign Interference(b) - 0.1 0.1 .. ..

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability(b) 0.5 15.7 - - -

Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity

Commonwealth Integrity Commission(b) - 0.8 - - -

Commonwealth Integrity Commission

Commonwealth Integrity Commission(b) - 7.5 0.7 0.9 0.9

Federal Court of Australia

Federal Court of Australia — additional resourcing(b) - 11.5 - - -

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner — additional resourcing(b) - 2.0 - - -

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

Countering Foreign Interference(b) - 2.3 - - -

Portfolio total 0.5 40.0 0.8 0.9 0.9

COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Consumer Safeguards — targeted measures(b)(c) - 0.7 0.2 0.1 ..

Portfolio total - 0.7 0.2 0.1 ..

CROSS PORTFOLIO

Various Agencies

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) * * * * *

Population Package * * * * *

Portfolio total * * * * *

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$m $m $m $m $m

DEFENCE

Department of Defence

Additional funding to support Defence Capability - - - 75.0 75.0

Australian Naval Infrastructure Pty Ltd — additional equity injection nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Portfolio total - - - 75.0 75.0

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Department of Education and Training

Child Care System Improvements(b) -8.8 - - - -

Population Package(b) - -0.7 -0.7 -0.7 -0.7

Skills Package — delivering skills for today and tomorrow(b) - 10.5 3.5 0.8 0.5

VET Student Loans — increase in loan limit for aviation courses(b)(c) - 0.2 - - -

Portfolio total -8.8 10.0 2.8 0.1 -0.2

ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

Bureau of Meteorology

Barkly Regional Deal(b) - - - 3.4 -

Bureau of Meteorology — additional radars and rain gauges(b) - 0.5 2.0 15.1 7.7

Clean Energy Regulator

Climate Solutions Package(b)(c) - - 3.5 1.8 -

Department of the Environment and Energy

Climate Solutions Package(b)(c) - 2.7 3.5 2.4 2.4

Hobart City Deal(b) - - - - -

Securing Tourism and Jobs in Kakadu(b) - - - - -

Sydney Harbour Federation Trust

Sydney Harbour Federation Trust(b) - 1.7 19.2 0.5 -

Portfolio total - 4.9 28.1 23.2 10.1

FINANCE

Department of Finance

Australian Naval Infrastructure Pty Ltd — additional equity injection nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Expansion of the Commonwealth Divestment Program(b) nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Portfolio total nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

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$m $m $m $m $m

FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE

Australian Trade and Investment Commission

Establishment of an Australian Trade and Defence Office in West Jerusalem(b) 0.3 .. - - -

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Australia's Indo-Pacific Engagement — enhanced engagement in Asia(b) - - - - -

Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity(b) - - - - -

Portfolio total 0.3 .. - - -

HEALTH

Australian Digital Health Agency

My Health Record — continuation(b) - - - - -

Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority

Implementing Sport 2030(b)(c) - - - - -

Department of Health

Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners(b)(c) - 2.9 1.9 1.9 -

Guaranteeing Medicare — improving quality and safety through stronger compliance(b)(c) - - - - -

More Choices for a Longer Life — improving the quality, safety and accessibility of aged care services(b) 0.2 1.7 2.6 - -

Portfolio total 0.2 4.6 4.5 1.9 -

HOME AFFAIRS

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

National Public Register of Child Sex Offenders(b) - - 1.7 1.8 -

Australian Federal Police

Countering Foreign Interference(b) - 0.1 - - -

National Security Agencies — additional resourcing(b) - 21.7 10.1 9.0 10.1

Regional Processing Arrangements — Christmas Island(b) 1.4 - - - -

Strengthening Counter-Fraud Arrangements(b) - 0.1 - - -

Whole of Government Drug Strategy(b) - 5.1 1.6 0.3 0.1

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

Countering Foreign Interference(b) - .. .. .. ..

National Security Agencies — additional resourcing(b) - 0.7 - - -

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre

AUSTRAC — Fintel Alliance(b)(c) - 0.8 3.4 2.3 -

Department of Home Affairs

Border Security Assistance for Fiji(b) 1.7 - - - -

Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity(b) - - - - -

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$m $m $m $m $m

HOME AFFAIRS (continued)

Extension of Temporary Graduate visa period for regional graduates(b)(c) - 2.5 - - -

Migration Program — improving economic outcomes for Secondary Skilled Migrants(b)(c) - 0.2 - - -

New Regional Visas — Population Package(b)(c) 0.8 5.0 0.8 - -

Regional Processing Arrangements — Christmas Island(b) 9.6 - - - -

Portfolio total 13.4 36.2 17.6 13.4 10.2

INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND SCIENCE

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Strengthening the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation(b) - 22.8 6.3 2.8 -

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

Adelaide City Deal(b) - - - - -

Implementing Sport 2030(b)(c) - - - - -

Portfolio total - 22.8 6.3 2.8 -

INFRASTRUCTURE, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CITIES

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

Moorebank Intermodal Company — equity injection nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Portfolio total nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

JOBS AND SMALL BUSINESS

Department of Jobs and Small Business

Better Targeting of Support for Refugees(b) - 0.1 - - -

Harvest Labour Services — reforms to encourage Australian jobseekers to take up seasonal work(b) - 0.7 - - -

New Employment Services Model — pilot and transitional arrangements(b) 0.8 19.3 5.2 0.4 -

Skills Package — delivering skills for today and tomorrow(b) - 0.3 - - -

Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity

Protecting Vulnerable Workers — National Labour Hire Registration Scheme and other measures(b)(c) - 0.8 0.1 0.1 0.1

Portfolio total 0.8 21.2 5.3 0.5 0.1

PARLIAMENT

Department of Parliamentary Services

Parliamentary Departments — additional funding(b) 0.2 14.3 13.9 3.3 -

Portfolio total 0.2 14.3 13.9 3.3 -

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$m $m $m $m $m

PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) 0.3 - - - -

North Queensland Livestock Industry Recovery Agency

North Queensland Flood Recovery Package(b)(c) - 0.7 - - -

Portfolio total 0.3 0.7 - - -

SOCIAL SERVICES

Department of Human Services

Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity(b) - 9.1 - - -

Guaranteeing Medicare — improving quality and safety through stronger compliance(b)(c) - - - - -

More Choices for a Longer Life — improving the quality, safety and accessibility of aged care services(b) - - - - -

New Regional Visas — Population Package(b)(c) 0.5 7.2 0.5 0.3 0.3

Veteran Centric Reform — putting veterans and their families first(b) - 9.7 4.1 0.8 0.2

Portfolio total 0.5 26.0 4.6 1.1 0.5

TREASURY

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

Government Response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry(b)(c) - 3.0 - - -

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

Government Response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry(b)(c) - 2.0 3.4 1.8 1.2

Australian Taxation Office

Black Economy — strengthening the Australian Business Number system(b)(c) - - - 1.8 -

Continued Funding for GovPass — Trusted Digital Identity(b) - 18.1 - - -

Reducing costs for super industry by including superannuation release authorities in electronic SuperStream Rollover standard(b) - - 12.6 - -

Single Touch Payroll — expansion(b) - 9.9 0.6 0.7 0.7

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Table 3: Capital measures since the 2018-19 MYEFO⁽ªâ¾ (continued) 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

$m $m $m $m $m

TREASURY (continued)

Tax Integrity — extension and expansion of the ATO Tax Avoidance Taskforce on Large Corporates, Multinationals and High Wealth Individuals(b)(c) - 6.5 - - -

Commonwealth Grants Commission

Commonwealth Grants Commission — ICT strategy and transformation(b) - 0.8 1.0 1.0 0.2

Portfolio total - 40.2 17.7 5.3 2.1

VETERANS' AFFAIRS

Department of Veterans' Affairs

Improved Access to Health Care for Australian Civilian Surgical and Medical Team members who worked in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972(b) - 0.3 - - -

Partner Service Pensions — eligibility alignment(b) - 0.8 - - -

Single Touch Payroll — expansion(b) - 1.4 2.7 - -

Portfolio total - 2.5 2.7 - -

Decisions taken but not yet announced(d) -12.1 -12.7 -5.0 -7.0 8.4

Depreciation Expense - -0.7 -6.8 -7.9 -8.1

Total impact of capital measures(e) -4.6 212.1 92.8 112.7 99.0

* 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. (a) A minus sign before an estimate indicates a reduction in capital, no sign before an estimate indicates increased capital. (b) These measures can also be found in the expense measures summary table. (c) These measures can also be found in the revenue measures summary table. (d) Includes the impact of measures that are not for publication (nfp). (e) Measures may not add due to rounding.

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DEFENCE

Additional funding to support Defence Capability

Capital ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Defence - - - 75.0 75.0

The Government will provide $150.0 million over two years from 2021-22 to support emerging capabilities for the Australian Defence Force.

This measure builds on commitments set out in the Government’s 2016 Defence White Paper.

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FINANCE

Australian Naval Infrastructure Pty Ltd — additional equity injection

Capital ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Defence nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Department of Finance nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

Total — Capital nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

The Government will provide Australian Naval Infrastructure Pty Ltd with an additional equity injection over two years from 2019-20 to undertake further infrastructure works at the Osborne precinct in South Australia and to undertake planning for future infrastructure works.

This investment will support the Government to deliver its historic $90 billion Naval Shipbuilding Program, bolstering Australia’s sovereign defence capability and national security.

The equity injection for this measure is not for publication (nfp) due to commercial sensitivities.

Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

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INFRASTRUCTURE, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CITIES

Moorebank Intermodal Company — equity injection

Capital ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp

The Government will make an equity investment from 2018-19 in the Moorebank Intermodal Company Limited to support the development of the Moorebank Intermodal Precinct.

The equity injection for this measure is not for publication (nfp) due to commercial sensitivities.

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PARLIAMENT

Parliamentary Departments — additional funding

Capital ($m)

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23

Department of Parliamentary Services 0.2 14.3 13.9 3.3 -

Related expense ($m)

Department of Parliamentary Services

- 3.0 0.2 0.2 0.2

Department of the House of Representatives

- 0.9 - 0.8 -

Parliamentary Budget Office - 0.6 0.7 2.0 2.0

Total — Expense - 4.5 0.9 2.9 2.1

The Government will provide $35.2 million over five years from 2018-19 (including $3.4 million in operating funding over four years from 2019-20) to the Department of Parliamentary Services to replace the original Australian Parliament House auxiliary power system to ensure the continued supply of power for critical systems and to upgrade the mobile phone antenna for the benefit of building occupants and visitors. The Government will also provide $1.7 million to the Department of the House of Representatives to assist in the delivery of international inter-parliamentary forums which it is obligated to host and $5.3 million over four years from 2019-20 to the Parliamentary Budget Office to meet additional costs associated with modelling and analysis and increased demand for services.