Part 2: Expense Measures (continued)

Table 2: Expense measures since the 2013‑14 MYEFO^(a) (continued)
	2013‑14 $m	2014‑15 $m	2015‑16 $m	2016‑17 $m	2017‑18 $m
EDUCATION
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Investing in research excellence — digitisation of Indigenous cultural resources	‑	3.3	‑	‑	‑
Australian Research Council
A sustainable Higher Education system — Australian Research Council — efficiency dividend	‑	‑	‑26.0	‑24.1	‑24.9
Boosting Dementia Research	‑	8.0	9.0	9.0	‑
Expanding opportunity — Higher Education Indexation — revised arrangements	‑	‑	1.1	‑1.3	‑4.6
Investing in research excellence
— Antarctic Gateway Partnership	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine	15.0	21.0	3.0	3.0	‑
— mid‑career Future Fellowships scheme — continuation	‑	1.6	23.0	45.5	69.5
Department of Education
A sustainable Higher Education Loan Programme
— HECS‑HELP benefit — cessation	‑	‑	‑28.4	‑29.0	‑29.7
— repayment thresholds and indexation	‑	‑348.5	‑459.0	‑583.4	‑730.5
A sustainable Higher Education system
— cessation of funding for the HC Coombs Policy Forum	‑	‑1.6	‑1.6	‑1.6	‑1.6
— Higher Education Reward Funding — cessation	‑8.5	‑26.2	‑26.9	‑28.5	‑31.1
— Research Training Scheme — student contributions	‑	‑	‑33.4	‑67.7	‑69.6
Australian Baccalaureate — discontinue development	‑	‑0.3	‑3.0	‑3.1	‑3.1
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority — reduced funding	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑2.6
Australian Government Quality Teacher Programme — continuation	4.6	0.3	‑	‑	‑
Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership — reduced funding	‑2.7	‑5.6	‑6.1	‑3.5	‑2.1
Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth — contribution	‑	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Centre for Quality Teaching and Learning — cessation	‑5.0	‑4.0	‑4.0	‑4.0	‑4.0
Child Care: Community Support Programme — additional funding and amended eligibility criteria	76.6	91.9	‑51.6	‑52.8	‑52.7
Child Care: Jobs, Education and Training Child Care Fee Assistance — reforms	27.9	7.4	‑22.4	‑0.4	19.0
Child Care: Support for the Child Care System Programme — offsetting savings	‑0.9	‑5.7	‑4.9	‑14.1	‑13.8
Education grant programmes — reduced funding	‑8.7	‑13.2	‑12.0	‑11.0	‑15.0
Expanding opportunity
— a more effective Higher Education Participation Programme	‑	‑7.5	‑12.5	‑13.8	‑17.5
— expansion of the demand driven system and sharing the cost fairly	‑	‑	‑162.3	‑398.7	‑509.7
— FEE‑HELP and VET FEE‑HELP loan fee — cessation	‑	‑	4.1	8.6	9.7
— Higher Education Indexation — revised arrangements	‑	‑	‑25.3	‑68.1	‑104.4
Higher Education Superannuation Programme — resumption of payments to universities in NSW	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Improving educational outcomes — reversal	‑5.7	‑9.8	‑7.1	‑7.2	‑
Investing in research excellence — National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy — continuation	‑	‑	150.0	‑	‑
Maintain eligibility thresholds for Australian Government payments for three years	‑	‑32.9	‑49.2	‑71.4	‑76.9
Migration Programme — allocation of places for 2014‑15	‑1.9	‑6.8	‑13.0	‑20.0	‑28.0
National School Chaplaincy Programme — continuation	‑	59.7	61.5	61.4	61.2
Online Diagnostic Tools — cessation	‑0.7	‑8.8	‑9.5	‑9.7	‑9.7
Primary Connections and Science by Doing — maintain funding	‑	1.0	1.0	2.0	1.0
Remote Indigenous students attending non‑government boarding schools — additional funding	‑	6.8	‑	‑	‑
Students First
— Early Language Learning Australia — trial	‑	7.0	2.8	‑	‑
— Improving the take‑up of foreign languages	‑	1.2	0.6	‑	‑
— indexation of school funding from 2018	‑	‑	‑	‑	54.1
Teach for Australia — reduced funding	‑	‑	‑0.2	‑0.1	‑0.2
Upholding Quality — Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching — establishment	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Youth 20 Summit — hosting	0.7	0.2	‑	‑	‑
Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
Upholding Quality — Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency — revised funding arrangements	‑	‑3.4	‑7.6	‑10.0	‑10.1
Portfolio total	90.8	‑263.9	‑708.9	‑1,292.8	‑1,526.2
EMPLOYMENT
Department of Employment
Award Modernisation Process — industry grants — cessation	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Building Australia's Future Workforce Evaluation — cessation	‑1.0	‑1.0	‑	‑	‑
Career Advice for Parents — cessation	‑	‑1.4	‑1.5	‑1.5	‑1.5
Connection Interviews and Job Seeker Workshops — cessation	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Disability Support Pension
— compulsory participation requirements for recipients aged under 35 years	‑	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.7
— review recipients aged under 35 years	‑	1.1	1.9	2.4	2.7
Ethical Clothing Australia — cessation	‑	‑1.0	‑	‑	‑
Experience+ Career Advice — cessation	‑	‑1.9	‑2.0	‑	‑
Fair Entitlements Guarantee — aligning redundancy payments to national employment standards	‑	‑10.0	‑22.4	‑25.8	‑29.5
Ford Australia — assistance to workers — cessation	‑	‑1.4	‑1.4	‑1.4	‑
Growth Fund — establishment	‑	‑	‑	3.0	12.0
Industry Skills Fund — establishment	‑	2.9	4.4	2.8	1.5
Job Services Australia — restricting participation for Volunteer Job Seekers	‑	‑5.4	‑11.9	‑16.4	‑18.8
Local Employment Coordinator Flexible Funding Pool — reduction	‑0.8	‑	‑	‑	‑
Migration Programme — allocation of places for 2014‑15	‑	‑	‑0.2	‑0.6	‑0.9
Move 2 Work — cessation	‑	‑1.1	‑	‑	‑
Restart — boosting the wage subsidy for mature age job seekers	‑	16.7	79.3	98.1	108.8
Stronger compliance arrangements for job seekers who refuse or persistently fail to meet requirements	..	0.1	‑	‑	‑
Stronger participation incentives for job seekers under 30	‑	19.4	152.2	184.4	215.0
Support Services and Mutual Obligations Arrangements for Illegal Maritime Arrivals	‑	4.5	6.1	8.5	10.2
Work for the Dole Programme — phased approach	0.5	14.3	‑	‑	‑
Portfolio total	‑1.3	36.3	205.3	254.4	300.2
ENVIRONMENT
Bureau of Meteorology
Bureau of Meteorology
— improved efficiency	‑	‑0.6	‑4.0	‑3.0	‑2.6
— supercomputer^(c)	‑	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Clean Energy Regulator
Emissions Reduction Fund — establishment	‑	75.5	299.8	354.5	416.9
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme — improved efficiency	‑	‑0.5	‑0.5	‑0.5	‑0.5
Department of the Environment
1,500 Gigalitre Cap on Water Buybacks — establishment	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
20 Million Trees — commencement	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Antarctica — maintaining Australia's presence	‑	9.4	‑	‑	‑
Asia‑Pacific Rainforest Summit	‑	0.8	‑	‑	‑
Coastal River Recovery Initiatives — establishment	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Community Heritage and Icons Programme — establishment	‑	0.5	0.5	0.5	‑
Dandenong Ranges Wildlife Recovery, Weed Management and Fuel Reduction Programme — establishment	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Grants to Voluntary Environment, Sustainability and Heritage Organisations — cessation	‑	‑1.3	‑1.3	‑1.3	‑1.3
Greater Western Sydney — Cumberland Conservation Corridor — establishment	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Harnessing the potential of algal synthesis and biofuels — redirection	‑	‑5.0	‑	‑	‑
Keep Australia Beautiful and Clean Up Australia — contribution	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Kimberley Cane Toad Clean Up — contribution	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility — support	‑	2.9	3.3	2.8	‑
National Environmental Science Programme — establishment	‑	‑4.6	‑4.6	‑6.3	‑6.3
National Landcare Programme — establishment	‑12.8	‑32.3	‑109.9	‑125.1	‑143.0
National Wildlife Corridors Plan — reduced funding	‑0.2	‑	‑	‑	‑
Office of Water Science research programme — cessation	‑2.0	‑2.0	‑2.0	‑2.0	‑2.0
Orangutan Reintroduction Project — contribution	‑	0.2	0.1	‑	‑
Port Arthur Penitentiary restoration — contribution	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Reef 2050 Plan — establishment	‑	11.1	10.3	9.1	9.4
Solar Towns — establishment	‑	0.5	1.4	0.3	‑
Southern Ocean flights — monitoring of whaling and protest fleets	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Sustainable Regional Development — reduced funding	‑	‑0.5	‑	‑	‑
Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure Programme — reduced funding	‑4.9	‑10.9	‑72.2	‑30.0	‑89.5
Tasmanian Forests Agreement Implementation Package — reduced funding	‑1.0	‑2.0	‑1.0	‑	‑
Water Resources Assessment and Research Grant Programme — reduced funding	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑0.2
Whale and Dolphin Protection Plan — establishment	‑	‑0.3	‑0.1	‑0.2	‑
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority — reduced funding	‑	‑0.6	‑0.6	‑0.6	‑0.6
National Water Commission
Smaller Government — National Water Commission — cessation	‑	‑3.3	‑8.1	‑8.1	‑8.2
Portfolio total	‑20.9	36.9	111.1	190.0	172.2
FINANCE
Australian Electoral Commission
Australian Electoral Commission — funding to conduct the Western Australian Senate Election	23.2	‑	‑	‑	‑
ComSuper
Military Superannuation — establish new accumulation arrangements	‑	‑	1.5	0.8	‑1.5
Department of Finance
Bureau of Meteorology — supercomputer^(c)	‑	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Communications and Public Affairs Functions — targeted savings	‑	‑5.3	‑10.5	‑10.5	‑10.6
Grants Management Platform Business Case	‑	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Improving small business access to Commonwealth contracts	‑	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
Infrastructure Growth Package — Asset Recycling Fund	*	*	*	*	*
Medical Research Future Fund — establishment	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Parliamentary service travel entitlements — reduced funding	‑0.1	‑1.1	‑1.2	‑1.2	‑1.3
Recruitment of Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 employees	‑	‑0.6	‑0.6	‑0.6	‑0.6
Smaller Government
— Contestability Framework	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— Medibank Private Limited — sale	15.4	75.5	‑	‑	‑
— scoping studies for four operations of government	‑	11.7	‑	‑	‑
— strengthen and enhance Australia's border protection services	‑	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
— Surplus Commonwealth Properties — divestment^(c)	‑	2.2	0.1	0.1	‑
Portfolio total	38.5	83.2	‑9.8	‑10.5	‑13.0
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE
Australian Trade Commission
International Tourism
— Australia Week in China	‑	0.2	1.8	‑	‑
— China Approved Destination Status Scheme	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— Demand Driver Infrastructure	‑	‑11.0	‑10.7	‑10.7	‑10.7
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Australia Network — Termination of the ABC Contract	‑	‑10.6	‑21.6	‑22.1	‑22.5
Australia's diplomatic engagement in Afghanistan — continuation	‑	49.4	‑	‑	‑
Baghdad Embassy — relocation	‑	27.4	‑	‑	‑
International Engagement to Prevent and Disrupt Maritime People Smuggling	‑	3.2	3.2	‑	‑
Official Development Assistance
— Global Green Growth Institute	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
— reprioritised funding	‑601.0	‑599.1	‑1,221.2	‑1,687.9	‑3,519.6
— seventeenth replenishment of the World Bank's International Development Association	‑	‑	‑	‑	‑
Smaller Government — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade — realising efficiencies	‑	‑109.7	‑101.7	‑94.9	‑90.8
Timor‑Leste Police Development Programme — continuation	‑	‑8.0	‑8.0	‑7.0	‑6.0
Transferring T‑Qual Accreditation to industry	‑	0.6	‑	‑	‑
Portfolio total	‑601.0	‑657.6	‑1,358.2	‑1,822.6	‑3,649.7

* 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.

(d) Measures may not add due to rounding.

Budget Paper No. 2: Budget Measures

Part 2: Expense Measures (continued)