At a glance.
Surplus $2.7 billion.
Aged and health:
Gold Card for WWII vets
Seniors Health cards for singles under $40,000 and couples under $67,000.
$80m for preventative health.
Free flu vaccine for over 65s.
$72.6 for Aboriginal primary health care.
Youth:
$260m to extend Work for Dole.
$160m in literacy and career development.
ACT:
International flag display on lake shore.
1% extra funding in real terms.
$62m for roads in region. Duplicate rest of Fed Hwy.
National institutions refurbishment $43m.
National Museum $154m.
Infrastructure tax incentive. Likely to help VFT.
ACT only state or territory with rising debt.
Public Service:
9000 jobs to go.
Family:
Child Support. Non-custodial parents to get a greater say.
Education:
Schools funding to 2002: non-govt up 18.1%; govt up 5.8%.
$176m for literacy in schools
Other:
$19m for Tax Office fight on tax avoidance to reap $200m over 2 years.
Health research up from $169m to $194m.
$215m to fight drugs.
$50m over 4 years for tourism.
$38m for ABC and SBS to digitise
$3m to combat sport drug cheats
Do-it-yourself superannuation initiative.
Y2K bug spending immediately deductible.
Software write-off in 30 months.
Telstra privatisation to improve bottom line by $699m by 2001-02.
Environment spending up 14%