• Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg say it will be a "jobs budget" with the aim of boosting the economic recovery, which has already begun after a short-lived recession.
• Economists expect a smaller budget deficit of around $80 billion for 2021/22 compared to the $108.5 billion estimated in the mid-year budget review.
• Debt edging towards $1 trillion.
• JobKeeper expected to cost $12.5 billion less than estimated, due to quicker recovery.
• High iron ore price will boost revenue coffers.

THE GROUND RULES

• Maintain a tax-to-GDP ratio at or below 23.9 per cent.
• Budget repair won't commence until unemployment sub-five per cent.
• Spending that lifts productivity.
• Structural reform to boost economic growth.
• Improving service delivery and funding national security measures.

HIP POCKET

• Another 12 months of low and middle-income tax offsets.
• Not expected to bring forward timing of income tax cuts.
• Changes to superannuation to help women boost their retirement savings.
• Age dropped to 60 for downsizers seeking to put home sale money into their superannuation.

COVID-19

• No opening of international border until 2022.

INFRASTRUCTURE

• $10 billion extra for road and rail infrastructure.
• Commonwealth to share the cost of 2032 Olympic Games with the Queensland government.

BUSINESS

• Incentives to attract global talent and business to Australia.
• $1.2 billion digital economy strategy including tax breaks for businesses, digital cadetship trial and $500 million on government services.
• Craft brewers and distillers to benefit from excise refunds.
• Companies to benefit from simplified liquidation and restructuring rules.
• $4 million for the Australian Communications and Media Authority to run the news media bargaining code involving major tech platforms.
• Australian Associated Press expected to receive $15 million over two years.

HEALTH/AGED

• $17.7 billion response to the aged care royal commission.
• More spending on mental health.
• Disability spending boosted.
• Telehealth subsidies extended to the end of 2021.
• $8 million federal contribution to Canberra compensation scheme for victims of loose-fill asbestos.
• Country doctors will be paid extra under a $65 million bid to tackle GP shortages in remote and regional Australia.

WOMEN

• Budget to include women's statement on economic safety and health issues.
• Domestic violence prevention funding to double to at least $680 million.
• $354 million over four years for cervical and breast cancer, endometriosis and reproductive health.

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HOUSING

• Five per cent deposit scheme for 10,000 first-home buyers purchasing a new dwelling, with the federal government guaranteeing up to 15 per cent of the loan.
• Single parents buying their first home will be able to purchase a new dwelling with a two per cent deposit, with the federal government guaranteeing up to 18 per cent of the loan.

(Price caps apply to both categories)

• First-home buyers will be able to release $50,000 from superannuation to save for a deposit, up from $30,000.

CLIMATE

• $565 million plan for low emissions technology partnerships.
• $263 million for carbon capture and storage.
• $275.5 million to set up regional hydrogen hubs.

WELFARE

• Expanded childcare subsidies worth $1.7 billion. Families with more than one child under the age of five in child care will have 95 per cent of their out-of-pocket expenses for second and subsequent children paid, from mid-2022. Also removal of $10,560 cap on childcare subsidy.
• Measures to boost the childcare workforce.
• JobSeeker payments to fall to $14.7 billion by 2024/25 from $32 billion forecast in December.

RURAL/REGIONAL

• $371 million biosecurity package to protect agricultural and regional communities.
• $10 billion reinsurance pool set up by July 2022 to subsidise high premium costs in north Queensland due to numerous disaster events.
• $600 million for a National Recovery and Resilience Agency to support local communities hit by major disasters.
• Sixth round of the Building Better Regions Fund for shovel-ready infrastructure projects outside major capitals, worth $250 million.
• Northern Australia to receive business grants and improvements to digital services.
• $66 million for Newcastle Airport upgrade.

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