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Budget | 2014-15

Budget 2014-15
Australian Government Coat of Arms, Budget 2014-15

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
HEALTH          
Australian National Preventive Health Agency          
National Tobacco Campaign — a new and lower cost media campaign ‑4.4
Smaller Government — Australian National Preventive Health Agency — abolish ‑23.8 ‑23.3 ‑23.6 ‑23.9
Australian Sports Anti‑Doping Authority          
Countering Threats from Doping in Sport
Australian Sports Commission          
Australian Sports Commission — redirection ‑0.1 ‑9.7 ‑9.7 ‑9.7
Sporting Schools Initiative 20.0 39.6 39.2
Department of Health          
2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games — operational support
Aligning Australia and New Zealand Therapeutic Arrangements nfp
Australian Government Commonwealth Games Funding Commitment
Australian Sports Commission — redirection 3.6 0.9 0.9 0.9
Charles Sturt University — dental and oral health clinic developments in New South Wales — reversal ‑4.6 ‑7.1 ‑3.6
Commonwealth Public Hospitals — change to funding arrangements
Commonwealth Seniors Health Card          
— annual indexation of income thresholds 1.9 4.1 6.8 9.4
— include untaxed superannuation income in the eligibility assessment ‑0.4 ‑2.0 ‑4.4 ‑7.0
Dental Flexible Grants Programme — cessation ‑50.3 ‑55.1 ‑61.2 ‑62.4
Diagnostic Imaging Quality Programme — cessation ‑1.0 ‑3.0 ‑3.4 ‑3.5 ‑3.5
Discretionary Grant Programmes — cessation of certain programmes ‑3.7 ‑0.2 ‑0.1 ‑0.1 ‑0.1
Doubling the Practice Incentives Programme Teaching Payment 19.9 59.3 75.1 82.6
Ensuring the Supply of Antivenoms, Q fever vaccine and Pandemic Influenza vaccines nfp nfp nfp nfp nfp
Establishment of Primary Health Networks
Family Payment Reform          
— limit the Large Family Supplement to families with four or more children ‑0.2 ‑1.0 ‑2.8
— maintain Family Tax Benefit payment rates for two years ‑0.3 ‑1.2 ‑4.5 ‑4.7
— remove the Family Tax Benefit Part A per child add‑on ‑0.5 ‑1.5 ‑3.2
— revise Family Tax Benefit end‑of‑year supplements ‑0.8 ‑2.8 ‑7.5
Full implementation of National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme 3.8 7.4 29.0 43.9
General Practice Rural Incentives Programme — additional funding 35.0
Good Sports Programme — continuation 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9
headspace Programme — additional funding 4.5 1.4 1.9 7.2
Health Flexible Funds — pausing indexation and achieving efficiencies ‑46.4 ‑69.7 ‑81.0
Improving local access to health care on Phillip Island
Indigenous Affairs Programmes — rationalisation ‑40.7 ‑67.3 ‑46.0 ‑11.8 44.0
Indigenous teenage sexual and reproductive health and young parent support — continuation 0.4
Investing in the nursing and allied health workforce 3.4 4.9 5.0
Maintain eligibility thresholds for Australian Government payments for three years ‑0.1 ‑0.2 ‑0.5 ‑0.6
Market testing of the payment of health services by commercial payment service providers 0.5
Medical Research Future Fund — investments 19.9 77.0 179.3
Medicare Benefits Schedule          
— comprehensive eye examinations ‑8.5 ‑12.6 9.5 ‑2.2
— introducing patient contributions for general practitioner, pathology and diagnostic imaging services 1.4 ‑1,164.4 ‑1,181.6 ‑1,226.8
— new and amended listings 1.1 ‑0.7 ‑0.3 1.1
— reduced optometry rebates and removal of charging cap ‑10.9 ‑24.8 ‑26.3 ‑27.8
— revised capital sensitivity provisions for diagnostic imaging equipment 0.2 0.5 0.5 0.5
Mental Health Nurse Incentive Programme — continuation 22.4
Mersey Community Hospital — additional funding 13.6
Migration Programme — allocation of places for 2014‑15 ‑2.1 ‑7.8 ‑14.1 ‑21.0 ‑27.9
National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health — establishment 4.2 4.3 4.6 5.0
National Partnership Agreement for adult public dental services — deferral ‑0.5 ‑0.2 ‑0.1 ‑0.1
National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services — cessation
National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health — cessation
National Tobacco Campaign — a new and lower cost media campaign 1.5
Northern Territory Medical Programme — consolidation 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.3
Partners in Recovery — reduced funding ‑25.3 ‑28.5
Pausing indexation of some Medicare Benefits Schedule fees and the Medicare Levy Surcharge and Private Health Insurance Rebate thresholds ‑131.5 ‑378.5 ‑480.1 ‑597.3
Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record System — continuation 118.8
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme          
— increase in co‑payments and safety net thresholds ‑143.3 ‑301.3 ‑361.0 ‑442.6
— Medication Charts for Public and Private Hospitals 4.3 1.4 0.4 0.4
— new and amended listings 6.2 69.2 82.9 94.7 107.1
— price amendments 0.4 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.2
Rebuilding general practice education and training to deliver more GPs 120.3 223.5 233.3 252.0
Reform of the Operation and Management of the National Medical Stockpile 1.5 5.1 4.6 4.2
Routine Replenishment of the National Medical Stockpile(c) 1.8
Rural and Regional General Practice Teaching Infrastructure Grants 21.0 21.0 10.5
Simplifying Medicare safety net arrangements 0.9 ‑53.4 ‑115.0 ‑116.3
Smaller Government          
— Australian National Preventive Health Agency — abolish 1.0 23.6 21.3 21.0 21.3
— More Efficient Health Workforce Development 5.1 188.0 169.9 166.4 190.5
Sporting Schools Initiative
Stoma Appliance Scheme — new listing and amendments .. .. ‑0.1 ‑0.1
Support Services and Mutual Obligations Arrangements for Illegal Maritime Arrivals 1.3 7.4 9.9 15.1 19.4
Supporting the Royal Flying Doctor Service 6.0
Tasmanian nursing and allied health scholarship and support scheme — cessation ‑2.0 ‑2.6 ‑2.6 ‑2.7
Tobacco Plain Packaging Litigation nfp nfp nfp nfp
Transfer of Payment Administration Functions for Professional Pharmacy Programmes 0.6 1.4
Water Safety — reduce drownings 1.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 5.0
World Health Organization — reduced funding ‑2.3
General Practice Education and Training Limited          
Rebuilding general practice education and training to deliver more GPs ‑136.7 ‑264.5 ‑269.2 ‑274.1
Health Workforce Australia          
Smaller Government — More Efficient Health Workforce Development ‑211.5 ‑214.1 ‑216.8 ‑219.5
National Health and Medical Research Council          
Boosting Dementia Research 32.0 31.0 31.0 40.0
Simplified and consistent health and medical research 4.1 5.0 0.3 0.3
Portfolio total ‑67.0 ‑86.2 ‑1,899.3 ‑2,030.7 ‑2,121.6
HUMAN SERVICES          
Department of Human Services          
Aged Care Payroll Tax Supplement — cessation 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.1
Apply the One‑Week Ordinary Waiting Period to all Working Age Payments 0.2 4.7 1.7 1.7 1.7
Cease indexation of the Clean Energy Supplement 0.5 1.8
Child Care: Jobs, Education and Training Child Care Fee Assistance — reforms .. 5.0 2.8 2.1 2.1
Commonwealth Seniors Health Card          
— annual indexation of income thresholds .. 1.3 0.5 0.8 1.0
— include untaxed superannuation income in the eligibility assessment .. 2.8 .. .. ‑0.1
Cessation of the Seniors Supplement — Commonwealth Seniors Health Card holders 0.1 3.6
Community Innovation through Collaboration Programme — cessation ‑4.1 ‑7.2
Connection Interviews and Job Seeker Workshops — cessation ‑4.4
Disability Support Pension          
— compulsory participation requirements for recipients aged under 35 years 0.4 5.9 3.3 2.2 2.2
— reduced portability 0.1 8.8 4.1 3.8 4.3
— review recipients aged under 35 years 0.4 12.6 8.5
Doubling the Practice Incentives Programme Teaching Payment 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.3
Education Entry Payment — cessation 0.8 0.8
Family Payment Reform          
— better targeting of Family Tax Benefit Part B 3.4 ‑1.8 ‑2.3 ‑4.2
— limit Family Tax Benefit Part B to families with children under six years of age 0.9 16.6 16.8 9.1 ‑21.8
— limit the Large Family Supplement to families with four or more children 1.4 1.9 0.5 0.2
— maintain Family Tax Benefit payment rates for two years 1.2 1.9 ‑0.3 ‑1.1 ‑1.1
— new Family Tax Benefit allowance 0.4 11.4 8.1 3.3 3.5
— remove the Family Tax Benefit Part A per child add‑on 0.7 0.7 0.2 0.2
— revise Family Tax Benefit end‑of‑year supplements 0.6 2.3 16.2 9.9 6.0
Full implementation of National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme .. .. 0.1
General Practice Rural Incentives Programme — additional funding 0.4 ..
Housing Help for Seniors — pilot — reversal 0.5 ‑2.0 ‑2.4 ‑2.4 ‑1.5
Income Management — one year extension and expansion to Ceduna, South Australia 76.3
Increase the Age Pension qualifying age to 70 years
Increasing the age of eligibility for Newstart Allowance and Sickness Allowance 0.3 17.1 39.0 48.8 46.3
Index Pension and Pension Equivalent Payments by the Consumer Price Index 1.8 1.6 0.1 2.0 3.1
Industry Skills Fund — establishment .. ‑0.1 0.4 ‑0.1 ‑0.1
Limit the Six‑Week Portability Period for Student Payments 0.2 3.7 0.3 0.1 0.1
Maintain eligibility thresholds for Australian Government payments for three years 1.9 4.5 0.7 1.5 4.3
Medicare Benefits Schedule          
— comprehensive eye examinations .. 0.6 .. 0.2 ..
— introducing patient contributions for general practitioner, pathology and diagnostic imaging services 0.2 7.4 34.2 28.6 26.0
— new and amended listings .. .. .. ..
— reduced optometry rebates and removal of charging cap 0.1
— Revised Capital Sensitivity Provisions for Diagnostic Imaging Equipment 0.6
Mental Health Nurse Incentive Programme — continuation 1.0
Migration Programme — allocation of places for 2014‑15 ‑0.6 ‑1.1 ‑1.2 ‑1.7 ‑2.3
Pausing indexation of some Medicare Benefits Schedule fees and the Medicare Levy Surcharge and Private Health Insurance Rebate thresholds .. .. 0.1 ..
Pensioner Education Supplement — cessation 0.1 ‑1.2 ‑2.7 ‑2.5 ‑2.4
Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record System — continuation 20.8
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme          
— increase in co‑payments and safety net thresholds 0.1 .. ‑0.9 ‑1.3 ‑1.8
— medication charts for public and private hospitals 0.1 4.6 3.3 1.3 0.6
— new and amended listings 0.6 1.8 1.4 1.9 2.5
Remove Grandfathering of Student Start‑Up Scholarship Recipients 3.7 0.5 0.1
Remove Relocation Scholarship Assistance for Students Relocating Within and Between Major Cities 0.2 6.2 0.7 0.7 0.7
Reprioritising the Aged Care Workforce Supplement 0.1
Reset the Assets Test Deeming Rate Thresholds 2.0 1.6 13.8
Simplifying Medicare safety net arrangements 0.2 2.5 8.7 1.8 0.2
Social Security Agreement with India 2.4 0.5 0.4 0.4
Stronger compliance arrangements for job seekers who refuse or persistently fail to meet requirements 0.3 3.9 2.4 2.4 2.3
Stronger participation incentives for job seekers under 30 0.4 41.7 67.6 65.7 63.0
Support Services and Mutual Obligations Arrangements for Illegal Maritime Arrivals 1.5 10.2 9.3 12.3 14.2
Support to Drought Affected Farmers 2.8 2.1 0.9 1.0 0.1
Tasmanian Wheat Freight Scheme — cessation .. 0.1
Transfer of Payment Administration Functions for Professional Pharmacy Programmes ‑0.6 ‑1.4
Portfolio total 14.1 281.6 225.8 193.0 164.1
IMMIGRATION AND BORDER PROTECTION          
Australian Customs and Border Protection Service          
Combating people smuggling — international engagement 3.7
Donation of Bay Class vessels — Malaysia
Operation Sovereign Borders — Special Envoy 0.5 0.5
Smaller Government — strengthen and enhance Australia's border protection services 30.2 33.8 9.1 15.5
Southern Ocean flights — monitoring of whaling and protest fleets
Department of Immigration and Border Protection          
2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games — operational support
Asylum Seeker Support — additional funding 27.8
Displaced Persons Programme — cessation ‑9.4 ‑7.0 ‑7.4 ‑7.4 ‑7.2
Education Services for Illegal Maritime Arrivals on Christmas Island 2.6
Managing the Legacy of Illegal Maritime Arrivals in Australia ‑117.5 ‑288.1 529.1 ‑6.9 ‑7.0
Migration Programme — allocation of places for 2014‑15 ‑1.1 ‑1.3 ‑1.5 ‑1.5 ‑1.5
Offshore Biometrics Programme — expansion ‑4.8 ‑4.7 ‑4.5 ‑4.6
Offshore Processing Centres — renegotiating major service provider contracts 6.8 ‑37.6 ‑27.0 ‑11.1 ‑8.6
Onshore Immigration Detention Network — estate management plan 1.1 ‑24.4 ‑24.1 ‑52.4 ‑64.9
Outreach Officer Programme — cessation ‑2.8 ‑2.8 ‑2.8 ‑2.8
Reducing Access to the Immigration Advice and Application Assistance Scheme for Onshore Protection Visa Applicants ‑0.5 ‑0.5 ‑0.5 ‑0.5
Regional Cooperation Arrangements — additional funding 1.3 22.0 49.0
Support Services and Mutual Obligations Arrangements for Illegal Maritime Arrivals 8.3 0.7
Supporting Rapid Transfers and Operation Sovereign Borders
Unaccompanied humanitarian minors — additional funding 15.2 12.1
Visa simplification to support the vocational education and training sector 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5
Portfolio total ‑118.4 ‑256.2 556.9 ‑77.6 ‑81.1
INDUSTRY          
Australian Institute of Marine Science          
Science and Research Agencies — reduced funding ‑1.8 ‑1.9 ‑2.1 ‑2.0
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation          
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation          
— additional funding 8.5 8.9 9.4 4.9
— permanent disposal of used nuclear fuel 2.7 2.9 18.8 1.4
Science and Research Agencies — reduced funding ‑6.6 ‑6.8 ‑7.1 ‑7.0
Australian Renewable Energy Agency          
Australian Renewable Energy Agency — cessation ‑357.0
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation          
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation — Marine National Facility research vessel — continuation ‑11.1 17.4 18.2 20.7 20.5
Science and Research Agencies — reduced funding ‑26.4 ‑27.5 ‑28.9 ‑28.6
Department of Industry          
Acacia Park Industrial Estate Armidale — contribution reversal ‑0.2
Australia‑China Science and Research Fund — continuation 2.0 2.5 2.8 2.6
Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Programme — Tools For Your Trade — cessation ‑142.4 ‑254.8 ‑257.4 ‑260.0
Australian Renewable Energy Agency — cessation 6.0 5.4 4.3 2.8
Automotive Assistance — reduced funding ‑100.0 ‑100.0 ‑118.0
Carbon Capture and Storage Flagships — reduced funding ‑162.9
Entrepreneurs' Infrastructure Programme — establishment ‑53.7 ‑32.8 ‑131.5 ‑142.1 ‑149.2
Ethanol Production Grants Programme — cessation ‑122.1 ‑122.1 ‑122.1
General Motors Holden — next generation vehicles — cessation ‑36.0 ‑50.7 ‑112.7 ‑15.6
Growth Fund — establishment ‑4.7 10.4 20.6 27.9 14.1
Industry grant programmes — reduced funding ‑2.0 ‑0.9
Industry Skills Fund — establishment ‑64.6 ‑195.3 ‑113.8 ‑85.0 ‑65.1
Manufacturing Transition Grants Programme — establishment 2.6 34.3 13.1
Migration Programme — allocation of places for 2014‑15 ‑3.8 ‑8.6 ‑10.8 ‑11.3 ‑11.4
Montara Commission of Inquiry — implementation of Government response — finalisation
National Low Emissions Coal Initiative — reduced funding ‑7.0 ‑9.8
National Radioactive Waste Management — second stage business case 6.8 7.1 8.8
Office of Spatial Policy — transfer of functions ‑1.3 ‑1.3 ‑1.2 ‑1.2
Oilcode dispute resolution services — extension
Plantation Manufacturing Innovation and Investment Fund — cessation ‑5.6 ‑4.9 ‑4.9
Reintroduction of fuel excise indexation(b) 1.8
Science for Australia's Future — continuation 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0
Smaller Government — Unique Student Identifier — revised governance arrangement
Tasmanian Major Projects Approval Agency — establishment 0.9 0.9 0.9
Textile, Clothing and Footwear Structural Adjustment Programme — support services ‑1.5
Trade Support Loans — establishment 2.0 47.8 127.1 141.0 155.1
Portfolio total ‑286.7 ‑469.2 ‑553.4 ‑418.2 ‑1,076.0
INFRASTRUCTURE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT          
Australian Maritime Safety Authority          
Protection of the Sea Levy — reduction — offsetting savings ‑9.0 ‑9.0 ‑10.0 ‑11.0
Australian Transport Safety Bureau          
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 — search 10.4 49.6
Civil Aviation Safety Authority          
Civil Aviation Safety Authority Board — expansion
Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development          
Hobart International Airport Runway Extension — contribution 5.5 26.1 6.4
Indian Ocean Territories — additional funding nfp
Infrastructure Growth Package          
— addition to the Infrastructure Investment Programme for new investments 350.0
— WestConnex Stage 2 — provision of a concessional loan 3.8 96.6 344.5 314.9
— Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan — Road Funding * * * * *
— Western Sydney Infrastructure Unit — establishment 28.3 27.5 16.2 5.8
Local Government Financial Assistance Grants — pause indexation for three years ‑95.8 ‑200.4 ‑307.8 ‑321.1
Local Government Reform Fund — cessation ‑1.2
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 — search 1.0 1.0
National Stronger Regions Fund — establishment 200.0 200.0 200.0
Norfolk Island          
— essential air services nfp
— financial assistance 7.5
— governance reforms 2.0
Protection of the Sea Levy — reduction — offsetting savings
Smaller Government — Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development — savings ‑2.8 ‑3.7 ‑3.7 ‑3.7 ‑3.7
Sustaining Australia's Maritime Skills — cessation ‑1.6 ‑1.7 ‑1.7
Tasmanian Wheat Freight Scheme — cessation ‑1.1 ‑1.1 ‑1.1 ‑1.1
Portfolio total 5.8 ‑13.5 484.3 244.5 183.8

*  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.