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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
PARLIAMENT
Department of Parliamentary Services
Parliament House — 25th Anniversary	0.1	‑	‑	‑	‑
Parliament House Safety Works(c)	‑	0.7	‑	‑	‑
Department of the House of Representatives
Department of the House of Representatives — additional funding	0.3	0.4	‑	‑	‑
Parliament House — Schools Hospitality Program	‑	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Department of the Senate
Department of the Senate — additional funding	‑	1.2	1.2	0.6	0.6
Parliamentary Budget Office
Parliamentary Budget Office — enhanced capability and functions	0.1	1.0	1.0	1.4	1.0
Portfolio total	0.5	3.6	2.5	2.3	1.9
PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET
Australian National Audit Office
Australian National Audit Office — increased audit activity	‑	0.7	‑	‑	‑
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet — continued funding	‑	3.4	3.4	3.5	3.5
Group of 20 meeting in 2014 — Queensland Government security costs	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
United Nations Security Council Term	0.1	0.3	0.2	‑	‑
Office of National Assessments
United Nations Security Council Term	0.6	0.7	0.6	..	‑
Portfolio total	0.8	5.1	4.2	3.5	3.5
REGIONAL AUSTRALIA, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ARTS AND SPORT
Australia Council
Creative Australia
— ArtStart — continuation	‑	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.5
— enhancing the Australia Council for the Arts	‑	18.3	18.6	19.0	19.4
— Major Performing Arts — increased base funding	‑	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.4
Australian Sports Anti‑Doping Authority
Australian Sports Anti‑Doping Authority — additional funding	0.4	0.9	0.5	‑	‑
Australian Sports Commission
Active After‑School Communities program — extension	‑	19.5	19.9	‑	‑
Australian Sports Commission — efficiencies	‑0.3	‑0.5	‑0.5	‑0.5	‑0.5
Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport
Christmas Island Strategy — projects to support increased population — extension	‑	4.7	‑	‑	‑
Community infrastructure projects in Armidale, Inverell and Werris Creek	‑	0.5	‑	‑	‑
Community infrastructure projects in Manning Valley, Port Macquarie and Hastings Valley	‑	0.4	‑	‑	‑
Creative Australia
— Arts Training Organisations — additional funding	‑	4.9	5.2	5.3	5.5
— ArtsReady — establishment	‑	0.9	1.4	0.7	0.4
— Australian Interactive Games Fund — establishment	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— Creative Young Stars	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— Indigenous Languages Support — expansion	‑	3.4	3.5	3.5	3.6
— Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support — additional funding	‑	2.7	2.8	2.8	2.9
— location incentive for international film and television productions	‑	‑	20.0	‑	‑
— Private Sector Support for the Arts	‑	3.8	4.8	‑	‑
Crescent Head Surf Club — contribution	‑	2.2	‑	‑	‑
Cricket World Cup — assistance	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Digital Television Switchover — savings	0.1	‑	‑	‑	‑
Filming of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo — contribution	‑	‑	‑	‑	21.6
Indian Ocean Territories — essential air services	nfp	‑	‑	‑	‑
Local Government Financial Assistance Grants — accelerating payments	1,136.6	‑1,136.6	‑	‑	‑
Major Sporting Events Taskforce — additional funding	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Murray‑Darling Basin Regional Economic Diversification Program	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
National Disaster Recovery Taskforce — extension	0.3	5.3	4.3	‑	‑
National Integrity of Sport Unit — additional funding	‑	0.9	0.9	‑	‑
Norfolk Island — essential air services	nfp	‑	‑	‑	‑
Norfolk Island Government — financial assistance	‑	5.4	‑	‑	‑
Northern Australia Sustainable Futures — extension	‑	1.1	1.3	‑	‑
Parliament House Walk — contribution	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Pentland Power Feasibility Study — contribution	0.3	2.3	‑	‑	‑
Rebuilding of the Dunalley Community Hall — contribution	‑	0.3	‑	‑	‑
Referendum on the financial recognition of local government in the Australian Constitution	1.1	10.5	‑	‑	‑
Regional Structural Adjustment Assistance package — cessation	..	‑43.6	‑5.4	‑57.4	‑28.6
Townsville Convention and Entertainment Centre — contribution	‑	5.0	‑	‑	‑
National Archives of Australia
Anzac Centenary Program 2014‑18 — additional funding	‑	1.0	1.1	1.2	‑
National Capital Authority
Paid parking on national land in the suburbs of Parkes, Barton, Russell and Acton (ACT)(b)	‑	0.1	0.6	0.6	0.6
Screen Australia
Creative Australia — supporting Australian digital productions	‑	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5
Portfolio total	1,138.4	‑1,079.5	86.2	‑17.5	32.2
RESOURCES, ENERGY AND TOURISM
Australian Renewable Energy Agency
Australian Renewable Energy Agency — deferral of funding	‑	‑	‑70.0	‑150.0	‑150.0
Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
Australia in the Asian Century — Resources and Energy Counsellor in Beijing	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Australia Week in China	‑	‑	1.8	‑	‑
Australian Renewable Energy Agency support — additional departmental funding	‑	6.1	‑	‑	‑
Carbon Capture and Storage Flagships — reduction in funding	‑	‑	‑100.0	‑200.0	‑200.0
Coal Mining Abatement Technology Support Package — reduction in funding	‑	‑	‑	‑14.5	‑14.5
Coal Sector Jobs Package — reduction in funding	‑	‑	‑	‑160.7	‑113.4
Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute — cessation of funding agreement	‑	‑20.0	‑20.0	‑2.5	‑2.5
Household electricity consumption — consumer energy data access	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
International Energy Agency International Energy Program Treaty — stockholding obligation	0.6	1.0	‑	‑	‑
Low Carbon Communities — concluding rounds	‑5.7	‑17.6	‑49.0	‑25.9	‑
Mandatory industry petroleum statistics reporting — establishment	‑	1.1	1.0	0.7	0.7
National Low Emissions Coal Initiative — reduction in funding	‑	‑32.8	‑55.4	‑	‑
National Radioactive Waste Management — securing a site and First Stage business case	‑	13.6	3.0	4.0	15.0
Offshore petroleum registration fee surplus revenue(b)	14.0	‑	‑	‑	‑
Resources, Energy and Tourism Counsellor in New Delhi — continuation	‑	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.9
Selective cash bidding for offshore petroleum exploration acreage — establishment(b)	0.5	..	..	..	..
Geoscience Australia
Geoscience Australia — supplementary departmental funding	‑	34.0	40.0	40.0	40.0
Selective cash bidding for offshore petroleum exploration acreage — establishment(b)	..	..	..	..	..
National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority
Offshore petroleum registration fee surplus revenue(b)	3.8	‑	‑	‑	‑
Portfolio total	13.1	‑13.8	‑247.9	‑508.2	‑423.8
SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENT, WATER, POPULATION AND COMMUNITIES
Bureau of Meteorology
Bureau of Meteorology
— recommissioning of Tennant Creek radar	‑	0.2	0.2	‑	‑
— website advertising(b)	‑	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Antarctica
— Aurora Australis life extension works	2.6	4.0	‑	1.3	‑
— maintaining Australia's presence	‑	9.5	‑	‑	‑
Biodiversity Fund
— redirection of funding	‑	‑11.6	‑15.7	‑3.0	‑2.0
— rephasing of funding	‑	‑50.9	‑70.6	‑53.7	‑50.2
Caring for our Country — redirection of funding	‑21.0	‑4.7	‑9.1	‑13.4	‑9.1
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
— deferral	‑	‑2.3	‑5.3	‑0.4	‑1.6
— water resources amendment	‑	8.5	10.2	9.9	10.0
Fisheries Adjustment Assistance Package — establishment	‑	‑	‑	‑0.1	‑0.2
Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative — reduced funding	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Liverpool Plains Regional Water Supply Strategy — design and scoping study	‑	0.4	‑	‑	‑
Murray‑Darling Basin Plan — additional support	‑0.5	‑0.8	‑0.5	‑0.8	21.3
Murray‑Darling Basin Regional Economic Diversification Program	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Reef Rescue — continuation	‑	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
Synthetic greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances — implementation of destruction incentives program and reduction in regulatory burden	‑	‑16.1	‑19.9	‑24.5	‑24.7
Tasmanian Forests Agreement — implementation package	20.3	1.0	7.7	1.0	‑
Voluntary product stewardship — implementation	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Water for the Future — urban water programs — reduced funding	‑7.4	‑2.2	‑	‑	‑
Murray‑Darling Basin Authority
Murray‑Darling Basin Plan — additional support	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
National Water Commission
Murray‑Darling Basin Plan — additional support	‑	..	..	..	..
Portfolio total	‑5.9	‑62.6	‑100.7	‑81.2	‑54.2
TREASURY
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics — additional funding for Input‑Output Data Tables and the Household Expenditure Survey	‑	3.9	2.5	‑	‑
Population Census 2016 — transition to a new model	‑	11.9	17.9	6.0	‑69.3
Statistical Infrastructure Project	‑	2.1	‑	‑	‑
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
— additional funding	‑	4.3	4.3	4.4	4.4
— chemical risk management	‑	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.1
Energy Market Reform — Australian Energy Regulator	‑	6.6	5.5	5.5	5.5
Petrol Commissioner and formal monitoring of petrol prices — continuation	‑	0.7	0.7	‑	‑
Trans‑Tasman Mobile Roaming	‑	0.2	0.4	0.4	0.4
Australian Office of Financial Management
Commonwealth debt management — savings	‑	‑2.2	‑2.2	‑2.2	‑2.2
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Australian Securities and Investments Commission client contact centre — National Business Names registration system	‑	3.1	3.1	‑	‑
Over‑the‑counter derivatives market supervision	‑	3.0	1.2	0.9	0.8
Superannuation Complaints Tribunal — additional funding	‑	1.0	0.9	0.3	0.3
Tax agent services licensing regime — online registration for financial advisors(c)	‑	‑	0.1	0.1	0.1
Australian Taxation Office
HECS‑HELP Discount and Voluntary HELP Repayment Bonus — ending discounting	‑	0.9	0.3	0.2	0.2
Low Income Superannuation Contribution — technical amendment	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.0
Official development assistance — Australian Federal Police contribution to the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Personal income tax
— net medical expenses tax offset phase out(b)	0.1	2.5	0.8	0.4	0.2
— reforms to work‑related self‑education expenses(b)	‑	0.3	0.7	2.2	2.2
Protecting the corporate tax base from erosion and loopholes
— improving the integrity of the foreign resident capital gains tax regime(b)	‑	‑	0.2	2.6	6.8
— increasing ATO compliance checks on offshore marketing hubs and business restructures(b)	‑	21.6	25.5	30.0	32.1
Research and Development tax incentive — quarterly credits	1.8	3.1	1.5	1.0	1.0
Student Start‑up Scholarships — conversion to Income Contingent Loans	‑	4.1	0.7	0.5	0.4
Superannuation reforms
— a fairer excess contributions tax system(b)	‑	2.4	1.3	0.6	0.6
— higher concessional contributions cap(b)	0.2	0.3	0.1	‑0.8	‑0.9
— reforming the tax exemption for earnings on superannuation assets supporting retirement income streams(b)	‑	3.8	7.5	13.7	13.7
— transfer of lost member accounts to the ATO(b)	‑	‑	0.1	5.6	5.9
Tax administration — enhancing Standard Business Reporting, the Australian Business Register and Australian Business Number administration(b)	‑	21.2	13.8	7.9	6.7
Tax compliance
— Australian Taxation Office trusts taskforce(b)	‑	9.2	16.6	19.7	22.4
— improving compliance through third party reporting and data matching(b)	‑	8.8	20.2	24.2	22.3
Tax System Advisory Board — establishment	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
The Conversation — funding support	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Department of the Treasury
Abt Railway — Contribution	6.0	‑	‑	‑	‑
Advancing Payments to the States and Territories	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Australia in the Asian Century — Strengthening engagement in the Asian region	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Better Schools
— National Plan for School Improvement — Low Socio‑Economic Status School Communities — redirection	‑	‑84.5	‑174.0	‑	‑
— National Plan for School Improvement — continued support for students with disabilities	‑	30.9	46.4	‑	‑
— National Plan for School Improvement — Empowering Local Schools — redirection	‑	‑	‑	‑288.0	‑
— National Plan for School Improvement — Rewards for Great Teachers — redirection	‑	‑26.0	‑81.4	‑162.8	‑162.8
— National Plan for School Improvement — Rewards for School Improvement — redirection	‑10.0	‑9.0	‑19.7	‑39.6	‑39.6
Better targeting of tax concessions — later start date and conclusion of transitional arrangements(b)	‑1.0	‑1.0	9.0	29.0	30.0
Brisbane Cross River Rail and Melbourne Metro Projects — Advisory Board	‑	1.6	1.6	‑	‑
Canberra Hospital — dedicated paediatric emergency care	‑	‑	5.0	‑	‑
DisabilityCare Australia — Transition to Full Scheme	1.1	7.1	4.3	0.6	‑
Early Childhood Education — National Partnership Agreement — continuation	14.7	406.0	234.9	‑	‑
Economic modelling capacity — continuation	‑	2.9	2.9	3.0	3.0
Excise and excise‑equivalent customs duty — index tobacco excise to average weekly ordinary time earnings(b)	‑	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Financial literacy — additional funding	‑	1.3	1.2	1.3	1.5
Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative — reduced funding	‑	‑22.9	‑	‑	‑
Group of 20 meeting in 2014 — Queensland Government security costs	8.5	35.0	54.0	‑	‑
GST — allowing businesses in a net refund position to continue to use the GST instalments system(b)	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Health and Hospitals Fund — Katherine and Gove District Hospitals — not proceed with funding	‑3.4	‑5.9	‑1.5	‑	‑
Healthy Kids Check — redirection of promotional funding	‑2.0	‑2.0	‑2.0	‑2.0	‑2.1
Improving trachoma control for Indigenous Australians — continuation	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Indigenous Communications Program — remote Indigenous public internet access — continuation	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Mosquito control and cross border liaison in the Torres Strait — continuation	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Murray‑Darling Basin Plan — additional support	‑	17.3	10.4	6.9	‑
Nation Building Program
— Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program — additional funding	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— next phase	‑	‑150.0	‑50.0	‑	‑678.0
— redirection	‑	‑6.8	‑22.1	‑3.4	‑
National Insurance Affordability Initiative — commencement and initial projects	‑	50.0	50.0	‑	‑
National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness	‑	155.0	‑	‑	‑
National Partnership on Home and Community Care Services to Veterans — redirection	‑	‑	‑8.3	‑8.4	‑8.4
National Perinatal Depression Initiative — continuation	‑	‑0.5	‑0.5	‑0.5	‑0.5
Natural Disaster Recovery and Rebuilding
— assistance for communities affected by the 2012‑13 Queensland floods	6.6	28.3	22.2	‑	‑
— donation to the Queensland Floods Appeal 2013	1.0	‑	‑	‑	‑
Official development assistance
— Australian Membership of the African Development Bank Group	‑	‑	nfp	nfp	nfp
— support for low income countries through the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust — Stage 1 and Stage 2	13.9	‑	36.7	‑	‑
Parliament House Walk — contribution	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Personal income tax — increase in the Medicare levy — DisabilityCare Australia(b)	‑	‑	‑	73.9	188.5
Reef Rescue — continuation	‑	‑2.0	‑2.0	‑2.0	‑2.0
Superannuation — further financial assistance grants to compensate fund members for the failure of Trio	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Superannuation reforms — Charter of Superannuation Adequacy and Sustainability and Council of Superannuation Custodians — Charter Group	0.2	‑	‑	‑	‑
Tasmanian Forests Agreement — implementation package	30.5	4.0	5.5	5.1	2.1
Tax laws — privileges and immunities for the International Committee of the Red Cross(b)	‑	..	..	..	..
Tax Studies Institute — establishment	2.0	‑1.0	‑1.0	‑	‑
Treasury legal expenses	nfp	nfp	‑	‑	‑
Vaccine Preventable Diseases Surveillance Program — continuation	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Victorian Local Hospital Networks — additional funding	‑55.1	‑	‑	‑	‑
World Leading Cancer Care — additional funding for BreastScreen Australia program — expand the target age range	‑	9.8	10.4	12.0	14.2
Portfolio total	18.1	555.7	260.8	‑246.5	‑595.3
VETERANS' AFFAIRS
Australian War Memorial
Anzac Centenary Program 2014‑18 — additional funding	‑	10.0	‑	‑	‑
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Anzac Centenary Program 2014‑18
— additional funding	‑	5.8	1.7	0.8	0.8
— Local Grants Program — additional funding	‑1.5	13.3	‑2.6	‑2.6	‑
Commemorations — National Boer War Memorial	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Defence service commemorations by Inverell and Gunnedah — contribution	‑	0.1	‑	‑	‑
Living Longer. Living Better — addressing workforce pressures — aged care workforce supplement	‑	4.6	5.8	8.3	10.0
Medicare Benefits Schedule
— new listings	..	..	..	..	..
— realigning indexation with the financial year	‑	‑7.7	‑6.9	‑10.8	‑14.3
— removing double billing	‑	‑	‑0.8	‑1.5	‑1.6
Mental health services — expansion	‑	1.3	8.2	10.2	12.5
National Partnership on Home and Community Care Services to Veterans — redirection	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Pension Bonus Scheme — cease late registrations	‑	‑1.6	‑3.3	‑0.9	‑
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
— new and amended listings	‑0.5	‑1.5	‑1.5	‑1.5	‑1.5
— price changes	..	0.1	..	..	..
Post‑market surveillance — review of Alzheimers Disease medications	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Reclassification of Australian Defence Force Service — Third Country Deployments in Afghanistan	‑	0.4	..	..	..
Residential aged care — improving access	‑	..	..	..	..
Superannuation reforms — extending the normal deeming rules to new superannuation account‑based income streams	‑	‑	0.3	‑1.2	‑2.3
Supporting Senior Australians — Housing Help for Seniors — pilot	‑	1.1	1.6	2.8	3.9
World Leading Cancer Care — National Bowel Cancer Screening Program — additional funding	‑	..	..	..	..
Portfolio total	‑2.0	25.9	2.4	3.7	7.7
Decisions taken but not yet announced	463.9	27.8	‑18.8	‑10.1	148.8
Depreciation expense	‑	2.5	14.9	27.7	47.8
Total impact of expense measures(d)	1,977.9	381.5	‑1,014.5	‑3,054.4	‑2,033.2

* 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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