2016 Fedral Budget
02 May 2016
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Budget means for you
ducing avoidable
hospitalisations.
If
you’re
worried about
cancer,
the
Government will
provide $178.3
million over five
years to develop
a National Cancer
Screening
Register.
Overall,
the
government’s
health spend for
2016-17 will be
$71.4 billion.
If you’re a uni
student...
The government has basically put higher
education in the too-hard basket.
Students have already planned their protests around funding cuts and fee deregulation expected to be included in the Budget.
Instead, they’ve decided to delay making
those decisions for another year to “undertake further consultation”
on the unpopular deregulation package proposed in the 2014-15
Budget.
If you’re worried about being attacked…
The Government is laying down a “20year defence industry plan”, promising big
improvements to the nation’s defence capability and advancing technologies.
They’re planning to spend $29.9 billion
on keeping Australia secure, bringing total
spend in the area to $195 billion in 10 years.
A naval shipbuilding plan will equip Australia with 12 new submarines, nine future
frigates, and 12 offshore patrol vessels, and
secure
more
than
3,600
jobs for Australians in the
process.
The Budget
also provides
$686 million for
continued military operations
to help protect
Australia.
If you’re worried about terrorism…
The
government will provide
$5 million towards
countering violent
extremism.
That’s $4 million for the Attorney-General’s Department to work with states and
territories provide community support and
advice services. Another $1 million will go
to the Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner to tackle online radicalisation through educational
resources.
The Government will also
provide $153.6 million to
boost security to Australian
Federal Police (AFP) and the
Australian Crime Commission
(ACC) in light fo the terror threat
against those agencies.
If you’re worried about being
hacked…
Cyber security is vital to our
economic and national security.
This Budget provides $195 million to deliver a comprehensive cyber security strategy for Australia,
which builds on the $38 million announced
in the National Innovation and Science Agenda.
The Government has put $195 million towards cyber safety.
Around $47 million will go towards establishing scary-sounding Joint Cyber Threat
Centres, while $21.5 million will go to expanding our Computer Emergency Response
Team (CERT).
Another $51 million will go towards investing in public-private partnerships and better
protecting Commonwealth systems.
The Australian Federal Police get $36.4
million over four years, and the Australian
Crime Commission gets an extra $16 million
to fight cybercrime.
If you live in Adelaide or Perth…
You may be able to land a job in the future submarine project. The submarines
will boost our defence capability, but it’s really about jobs and stimulating the economy,
particularly in struggling South Australia.
Ship yards in Adelaide and Perth will be
the base for the project where around 3,600
jobs are expected to be secured. But Mr Morrison is also p