- 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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