This Budget Paper is intended to provide comprehensive information on all Government decisions that involve changes to its revenue, expense and investing activities since the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2013-14. Foreword Budget Paper No. 2 comprises three parts: • Part 1: Revenue Measures • Part 2: Expense Measures • Part 3: Capital Measures Revenue...

This Budget Paper presents information on the Commonwealth’s financial relations with State, Territory and local governments. This includes an overview of major Australian Government reforms and new developments, as well as information on payments to the States and analysis of fiscal developments in the public sector. Executive summary The 2014-15 Budget commences the critical task...

Introduction: The purpose of Budget Paper No. 4 is to provide a whole-of-government view of appropriations required by entities in the Budget year and their estimated staffing, expenses and net capital investment. The Paper contains three parts with tables of information as follows: 1. Agency resourcing — Appropriations required by Agencies 1.1 Total resourcing by...

This report summarises information Australia provided in 2013 to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Health Care Quality Indicators 2012–13 data collection. Summary This report: summarises information Australia provided in 2013 to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Health Care Quality Indicators (HCQI) 2012-13 data collection compares data supplied by Australia in...

This report reviews the options available for upgrading existing passenger train services, drawing from local and international case studies to inform the conclusions. These case studies illustrate both the range of upgrades available and their effectiveness in increasing rail patronage and mode share. Travellers seek a comfortable, accessible and dependable service with low transit and...