This series of breifing papers details the new budget's impact on a range of policy areas.

These policy briefs are being gradually uploaded by the Parliamentary Library as of 11 May 2012, and cover the following areas:

• Arts and media
• Climate change, energy and the environment
• Commonwealth-State relations
• Corporate governance
• Defence
• Education
• Foreign affairs
• Health and ageing
• Immigration
• Law, policing and national security
• Public sector
• Science
• Superannuation
• Social services and welfare
• Taxation
• Workplace relations