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Part 2: Expense Measures (Continued)

Table 2: Expense measures since the 2012‑13 MYEFO(a)

	2012‑13 $m	2013‑14 $m	2014‑15 $m	2015‑16 $m	2016‑17 $m
HEALTH AND AGEING
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Health program funding — Better targeting	‑	‑4.1	‑5.0	‑4.0	‑
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare — development and measurement of updated key performance indicators	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency — improving Australia's capacity to deliver effective radiation protection and nuclear safety	‑	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3
Cancer Australia
World Leading Cancer Care
— cancer data to improve cancer survival — additional funding	‑	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
— improving lung cancer outcomes — additional funding	‑	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
Department of Health and Ageing
A Plan for Australian Jobs — Clinical Trials Reform in Australia	‑	0.4	0.3	0.5	‑
Advancing Payments to the States and Territories	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Australia New Zealand Therapeutic Products Agency — continuation	‑	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency — improving Australia's capacity to deliver effective radiation protection and nuclear safety	‑	0.1	‑	‑	‑
Australian Red Cross — additional funding	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Canberra Hospital — dedicated paediatric emergency care	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Extended Medicare Safety Net — increasing the general threshold	‑	0.1	‑8.4	‑48.5	‑49.4
Family and Parental Payments — change to rules for receiving payments overseas	‑	‑	‑0.6	‑0.7	‑0.7
Family payments reform
— continuing indexation pauses on upper income limits and supplements	‑	‑	‑6.4	‑14.0	‑23.9
— replacing the Baby Bonus	‑	..	0.3	0.3	0.3
Family Tax Benefit and Child Care Assistance — realignment of time period for income reconciliation	‑	0.3	‑0.6	‑0.6	‑0.6
Family Tax Benefit Part A — Changes to age of eligibility	‑	‑0.5	‑2.3	‑2.4	‑2.6
Female genital mutilation — education and awareness	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Fraud prevention and compliance — improve billing practices within public hospitals	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
General Practice Rural Incentives Program — additional funding	‑	20.0	‑	‑	‑
Health and Hospitals Fund — Katherine and Gove District Hospitals — not proceed with funding	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Health program funding — Better targeting	‑	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.2
Health Workforce — continuation of workforce redesign program	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Health Workforce Australia — rationalisation	‑	‑20.0	‑20.0	‑20.0	‑20.0
Healthy Kids Check — redirection of promotional funding	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
High risk implantable devices — establishment of a national patient register	‑	3.6	3.0	2.9	2.7
Improving incentives to work — extended Pensioner Concession Card entitlements for single parents	‑	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.5
Improving trachoma control for Indigenous Australians — continuation	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
International Health Professionals Program — continuation	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Living Longer. Living Better
— addressing workforce pressures — aged care workforce supplement	‑	‑7.3	‑16.7	‑28.6	‑37.8
— residential care — accommodation bonds insurance	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— staying at home — improvements	‑	0.8	‑0.4	‑0.8	..
Living Organ Donors — supporting leave	0.5	1.2	1.0	‑	‑
Medicare — communications campaign	6.5	3.5	‑	‑	‑
Medicare Benefits Schedule
— comprehensive management framework	‑	9.8	9.8	‑	‑
— new listings	‑0.1	‑0.4	‑0.4	‑0.3	‑0.3
— realigning indexation with the financial year	‑	‑152.2	‑146.4	‑162.7	‑163.3
— remove out‑of‑hospital Medicare rebate for selected items	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— removing double billing	‑	0.2	‑24.2	‑42.3	‑47.2
Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program	‑	23.2	‑	‑	‑
Mental health services — expansion	‑	‑	‑1.7	‑2.1	‑2.7
Mosquito control and cross border liaison in the Torres Strait — continuation	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
National Health Information Network	‑	‑	‑	‑5.9	‑25.4
National Medical Stockpile — replenishment(c)	‑	0.4	‑	‑	‑
National Perinatal Depression Initiative — continuation	‑	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
National Rural and Remote Health Infrastructure Program — prioritising remote areas and Indigenous communities	‑	‑5.0	‑5.0	‑5.0	‑5.0
Office of the Gene Technology Regulator — introduction of cost recovery services	‑	0.4	‑	‑	‑
Past Forced Adoption Practices — Support for people affected	‑	1.5	0.4	0.3	0.3
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
— additional funding for further pricing reform	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— Management and Mitigation of Legal Challenges	‑	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
— new and amended listings	34.5	143.8	155.2	170.9	187.3
— price changes	0.1	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.9
Post‑market surveillance — review of Alzheimers Disease medications	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Pricing arrangements for products listed on the Stoma Appliance Scheme	‑0.1	‑0.4	‑0.4	‑0.4	‑0.4
Primary Care Infrastructure Grants Program — Ashford Community Health Facility	‑	0.3	‑	‑	‑
Superannuation reforms — extending the normal deeming rules to new superannuation account‑based income streams	‑	‑	‑0.3	‑2.7	‑6.3
Support Senior Australians — the Andrew Fisher Applied Policy Institute for Ageing	‑	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.2
Supporting Senior Australians — Wound Management Scoping Study	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Tasmanian Forests Agreement — implementation package	‑	0.5	0.5	‑	‑
Tobacco plain packaging — compliance, enforcement and litigation	‑	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Vaccine Preventable Diseases Surveillance Program — continuation	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Victorian Local Hospital Networks — additional funding	107.0	‑	‑	‑	‑
Woomera Hospital — one year continuation of agreement	‑	‑	‑1.4	‑1.4	‑1.4
World Leading Cancer Care
— additional funding for BreastScreen Australia program — expand the target age range	‑	2.6	3.1	1.7	1.7
— additional funding for McGrath Foundation Breast Care Nurse initiative — continuation and expansion	‑	4.5	4.9	5.0	5.1
— Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centres — continuation and expansion	‑	4.0	4.7	4.8	4.9
— Bone Marrow Transplant Program — additional funding	‑	3.8	5.1	6.6	8.4
— chemotherapy services — additional funding	0.1	29.5	‑	‑	‑
— National Bowel Cancer Screening Program — additional funding	‑	3.7	3.8	4.4	4.1
— Victorian Cytology Service — continuation	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— Youth Cancer Networks — additional funding	‑	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.7
Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
A Plan for Australian Jobs — Clinical Trials Reform in Australia	0.2	0.3	‑	‑	‑
Health program funding — Better targeting	‑	‑0.6	‑0.6	‑0.6	‑0.6
National Blood Authority
Health program funding — Better targeting	‑	‑0.3	‑10.4	‑20.9	‑29.0
National Health and Medical Research Council
A Plan for Australian Jobs — Clinical Trials Reform in Australia	‑	1.1	1.1	1.0	1.1
Acute rheumatic fever vaccine — research	‑	0.6	0.8	‑	‑
Portfolio total	148.7	80.7	‑45.9	‑154.5	‑189.5
HUMAN SERVICES
Department of Human Services
Call Centre supplementation — reducing waiting times	10.0	20.0	‑	‑	‑
Cape York Welfare Reform — Embedding and Building	‑	3.1	2.6	1.3	‑
Child Care Rebate — indexation pause — extension	..	..	..	..	‑
Child Support System (Cuba) — Replacement	‑	‑12.9	‑7.2	‑10.0	‑4.0
Department of Human Services — efficiencies	0.4	‑6.8	‑18.6	‑18.6	‑18.7
Extended Medicare Safety Net — increasing the general threshold	‑	‑	0.6	‑	‑
Family and Parental Payments — change to rules for receiving payments overseas	‑	2.7	1.7	0.6	0.6
Family payments reform
— continuing indexation pauses on upper income limits and supplements	‑	0.3	‑1.8	‑2.4	‑3.2
— replacing the Baby Bonus	0.4	10.3	7.2	4.0	4.7
Family Tax Benefit and Child Care Assistance — realignment of time period for income reconciliation	1.4	6.0	2.2	0.7	‑0.3
Family Tax Benefit Part A — Changes to age of eligibility	‑	3.5	1.0	0.4	0.3
Fraud prevention and compliance
— improve billing practices within public hospitals	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— increase compliance for customers with earned income	‑	8.8	‑	‑	‑
Improving incentives to study — extension of the Pensioner Education Supplement for single parents	0.1	1.5	0.1	0.1	0.1
Improving incentives to work — extended Pensioner Concession Card entitlements for single parents	..	0.4	..	..	..
Income Management
— continuation and expansion in Western Australia	‑	6.4	‑	‑	‑
— enhanced service delivery	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Income Security Integrated System Business Case	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Integrated Service Delivery Framework	‑	10.9	14.2	12.2	12.2
Jobs, Education and Training Child Care Fee Assistance — continuation of bridging and foundation courses	0.8	0.5	‑	‑	‑
Living Longer. Living Better — staying at home — improvements	0.1	0.3	‑	‑	‑
Medicare Benefits Schedule
— realigning indexation with the financial year	‑	..	..	‑	‑
— remove out‑of‑hospital Medicare rebate for selected items	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— removing double billing	‑	‑	‑0.4	‑0.8	‑0.9
Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program	‑	0.5	‑	‑	‑
Mental health services — expansion	‑	‑	..	..	..
National Drought Program Reform	‑	9.1	6.8	7.1	8.9
Natural disaster support — Commonwealth Disaster Recovery Allowance	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Not proceeding with the additional increase to Family Tax Benefit Part A payments	‑	‑0.1	‑2.4	‑1.5	‑0.2
Pension Bonus Scheme — cease late registrations	..	1.3	0.3	..	‑
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
— additional funding for further pricing reform	2.5	‑	‑	‑	‑
— new and amended listings	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4
— price changes	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Student Start‑up Scholarships — conversion to Income Contingent Loans	0.6	5.5	2.6	3.4	3.6
Superannuation reforms — extending the normal deeming rules to new superannuation account‑based income streams	‑	0.9	5.2	1.2	0.8
Supporting jobseekers in the transition to work — increase and index the income free area for eligible income support recipients	‑	1.2	0.1	..	..
Supporting Senior Australians — Housing Help for Seniors — pilot	‑	3.4	2.3	2.5	2.5
World Leading Cancer Care — National Bowel Cancer Screening Program — additional funding	‑	..	..	..	..
Youth Attainment and Transitions — extension	‑	0.2	..	‑	‑
Portfolio total	16.5	77.1	16.8	0.7	6.9
IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Asylum Seeker Assistance Scheme — continued	‑	10.5	‑	‑	‑
Australia in the Asian Century — Enhancing the Working Holiday Maker Program	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Automated Border Processing for International Air Departures — trial	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Building Socially Inclusive Communities	1.1	13.8	‑	‑	‑
Combating People Smuggling
— Disruption Activities	‑	1.9	‑	‑	‑
— enhancing the regional response	‑	16.2	13.8	9.9	10.1
Combating people smuggling — prevention and disruption activities	1.9	1.7	‑	‑	‑
Integrated Service Delivery Framework	‑	‑33.5	‑28.7	‑20.4	‑20.0
Migration Program — allocation of places for 2013‑14	‑	0.9	1.6	2.3	2.5
Nairobi Chancery — construction(c)	‑	‑	‑	‑	..
Refugee Status Determination Review	‑	8.6	8.1	‑	‑
Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal
Migration Review Tribunal — Refugee Review Tribunal — Revised Demand Driven Funding Model	‑	2.9	0.3	‑1.5	‑3.0
Portfolio total	3.0	22.9	‑4.9	‑9.8	‑10.3
INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND TERTIARY EDUCATION
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Australian Institute of Marine Science — additional operational funding	‑	1.5	8.5	10.1	10.9
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
— additional funding for decommissioning and nuclear waste management activities	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— additional funding support	‑	8.1	‑	‑	‑
Australian Research Council
Australian Research Council
— Future Fellowships scheme — continuation	‑	1.7	31.8	32.8	33.9
— system standardisation	‑	‑1.9	‑2.6	‑2.6	‑2.7
Clean Energy Regulator
Kyoto Protocol — election of additional land‑based activities under the second commitment period and termination of the Non‑Kyoto Carbon Fund(b)	‑	3.2	12.3	‑	‑
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation — Marine National Facility — operational funding	‑	12.1	‑	‑	‑
Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
A Plan for Australian Jobs
— Clinical Trials Reform in Australia	0.1	1.7	1.1	0.7	0.1
— Enterprise Solutions Program — establishment	‑	2.3	7.7	10.2	7.5
— Industry Innovation Precincts — establishment	2.9	35.4	58.6	63.3	78.3
— Information Campaign	10.0	‑	‑	‑	‑
— opening up opportunities through Australian Industry Participation	1.1	19.5	19.7	27.8	28.1
— Services Leaders Group — establishment	0.3	1.1	1.2	1.5	1.6
— Venture Australia — extension and enhancement	‑	2.4	1.6	2.3	1.8
Acacia Park Industrial Estate Armidale contribution towards enhanced communications capacity	‑	0.2	‑	‑	‑
Apprenticeships — Alternative Pathways Program — establishment	‑	13.2	19.4	18.1	18.1
Australia in the Asian Century
— AsiaBound Grants and changes to OS‑HELP	‑	‑	‑	‑	13.1
— Asian Century Awards	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— strengthening connections and opportunities in training and skills	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Australian Maritime College — additional funding	‑	2.8	2.9	3.0	3.1
Australian Skills Centres of Excellence — redirection	‑	‑6.0	‑6.0	‑6.0	‑
Australian Skills Quality Authority — cost recovery arrangements	‑5.0	‑10.0	‑	‑	‑
Charles Sturt University — Food, Soil and Water Research Centre	5.9	‑	‑	‑	‑
Clean Technology Program — reprofile funding	‑58.0	‑	160.0	‑60.0	‑100.0
Diamond Energy — assistance	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Education Investment Fund — return of unallocated funds	‑46.1	‑46.8	‑66.2	‑	‑
Enterprise Connect Innovative Regions Centre in Western Sydney — establishment	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Family Tax Benefit Part A — Changes to age of eligibility	‑	..	0.1	0.2	0.3
HECS‑HELP Discount and Voluntary HELP Repayment Bonus — ending discounting	‑	‑31.2	‑64.7	‑68.4	‑72.3
Higher Education Support Act 2003 — efficiency dividend	‑	‑84.9	‑227.6	‑290.4	‑299.8
Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000 — extension	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Kyoto Protocol — election of additional land‑based activities under the second commitment period and termination of the Non‑Kyoto Carbon Fund(b)	‑	‑49.6	‑46.7	‑60.7	‑77.7
Leveraging Australia's Global Expat Platform — Advance — continuation of support	‑	‑	1.0	0.8	0.5
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy — continuation	‑	82.9	102.9	‑	‑
Natural Disaster Recovery and Rebuilding — assistance for communities affected by the 2012‑13 Queensland floods	1.0	1.0	‑	‑	‑
Priority postgraduate and sub‑bachelor courses — additional places	‑	11.7	23.8	24.6	25.4
Skills Connect Fund — establishment	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Student Start‑up Scholarships — conversion to Income Contingent Loans	‑	‑46.5	‑231.7	‑423.1	‑481.3
Tasmanian Forests Agreement — implementation package	‑	5.9	4.9	4.9	‑
The Conversation — funding support	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Vocational Education and Training National Support — redirection of funding	‑5.9	‑	‑	‑	‑
Vodafone Hutchison Australia — Tasmanian call centre expansion	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Portfolio total	‑93.8	‑69.9	‑187.8	‑711.0	‑811.1
INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT
Department of Infrastructure and Transport
Abt Railway — Contribution	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Adelaide Airport Noise Amelioration Program	‑	2.0	3.0	‑	‑
Infrastructure Australia — additional funding	‑	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0
Jobs Fund — Infrastructure Employment Projects — Cairns Entertainment Precinct — not proceeding	‑10.1	‑28.0	‑	‑	‑
Nation Building Program
— Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program — additional funding	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— next phase	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— redirection	‑	‑3.0	‑3.0	‑3.0	‑3.0
Regional Aviation Access Program — airstrip upgrade funding component — extension	‑	3.4	6.4	‑	‑
Sustaining Australia's maritime skills	‑	1.6	1.7	1.7	‑
Portfolio total	‑10.1	‑21.0	11.1	1.7	‑

* 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) Measures may not add due to rounding.

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