Government Costings

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 22 November 2007
This policy outlines initiatives:

To enable Australia to set new export records and sell more into world markets.
To provide additional funding to specific local hospital and health projects.
To support Australians who live in rural and regional areas.
To assist local communities crack down on hoons, vandals and criminals and fight crime in their community.
To invest in sporting infrastructure and support Special Olympics Australia.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 21 November 2007
This policy outlines initiatives:

The introduction of transition to retirement for CSS and PSS members and the introduction of death benefits for members interdependent couples.
To maintain management of Australian Government finances.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 19 November 2007
This policy outlines initiative:

The Coalition will seek to quarantine and manage 100 per cent of welfare payments to those convicted of criminal drug offences involving hard drugs.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 16 November 2007
This policy outlines initiative:

To build and upgrade South East Queensland’s roads between now and 2014.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 15 November 2007
These policies outlines initiatives:

To establish a new Summer School for teachers dedicated to addressing the needs of students with special needs.
To build on the successes of recent years of Coalition investment in the aviation industry.
To further invest in food processing and livestock identification in the agriculture sector.
To support the development of sustainable Australian biofuels industry.
The Coalition will fund financial literacy advisers who will assist young Australians with financial advice.
To further improve the range of services and benefits available to veterans.
To ensure that parent receive the full benefit of their child care tax rebate as they pay their child care fees.
The Coalition will provide grants in support of the fishing industry.
To improve older Australian’s alternatives to public hospital.
To improve standards of living for older Australian’s by helping to reduce inappropriate extended hospital lengths of stay and premature admission to residential aged care.
To Enable more frail older people to access care at home.
A contribution to an unmet need for respite for carers of high need people. The policy builds on a number of current measures and is intended to offer flexibility of care type for users of both aged care and disability respite.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 14 November 2007(2)
This policy outlines initiative:

To improve housing affordability and includes elements such as providing tax effective savings accounts for first home buyers and providing a range of supply side measures.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 14 November 2007
This policy outlines initiative:

To provide a refundable tax offset for education expenses faced by parents of school and pre-school aged children.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 12 November 2007
These policies outline initiatives:

To provide additional funding to the ABC for the creation of a new ABC children’s channel.
To build and upgrade South Australia’s road and rail network between now and 2014.
To build and upgrade Sydney’s transport network between now and 2014.
To build and upgrade Victoria’s roads between now and 2014.
To upgrade Perth’s urban roads and improve links to Perth Airport and Fremantle Port.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 9 November 2007
These policies outline initiatives:

To assist Territorians to receive specialist heart care at the Royal Darwin Hospital.
To provide additional funding to the Workplace Authority to advise assist young workers ($4 million over four years) and to the Workplace Ombudsman to enable it to undertake investigative and compliance activity relating to young workers and apprentices ($1 million over four years).

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 7 November 2007
Fifty setup grants and ongoing grants will be provided to GP practices that agree to open for extended hours, to expand after hours medical care.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 5 November 2007
This request relates to the Australian Defence Technical Colleges element of the Coalition’s Securing Australia: Skills for Australia’s Future Defence policy. The policy intends to ensure that Australia has a highly skilled defence sector to implement the Defence Capability Plan.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 2 November 2007
These policies outline initiatives:

This policy outlines the Coalition’s plan to expand the Practice Nurse Incentive programme to all general practices in all geographical areas and to introduce a new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) practice nurse home visits item for patients aged 65 and over, veterans and younger patients deemed by their GP to be frail or ill.
The Coalition will expand the number of training positions in the Expanding Settings Specialist Training Programme (ESSTP) by 50 places in 2009, 100 places in 2010 and 150 places in 2011 and each year thereafter.
The Coalition will expand the number of GP registrar training places for medical graduates by 100 places each year for three years. In addition it will increase the Prevocational General Practice Placements Programme (PGPPP) by 130 places in 2009, 180 places in 2010 and 230 places in 2011 and each year thereafter.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 31 October 2007
These policies outline initiatives:

a comprehensive, long-term plan to improve Australia's local roads; and
small Business Training Vouchers will be provided to small businesses (with less than 20 employees) to assist their staff to access training.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 30 October 2007
These policies outline initiatives:

the building of 30 new Australian Technical Colleges (including two Australian Defence Colleges) and convert 70 secondary schools to Australian Technical Colleges; and
the Coalition’s Plan outlines initiatives to make Tasmanian transport links more affordable and efficient.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 29 October 2007(2)
This policy outlines the Coalition’s plan to identify and provide the priority technical skills needed by Defence and its associated industries into the future.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 29 October 2007
These policies outline initiatives:

To support the development and deployment of new and emerging low emission renewable energy technologies; and
Contribution to enable the establishment of six collaborative cancer centres dedicated to the needs of Australians aged 15 to 25 years.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 26 October 2007
This policy will provide $800,000 per annum to support the Australian National Council on Mental Health.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 24 October 2007(2)
The policy will provide $15 million to establish a consolidated national program of pest and feral animal control and eradication.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 24 October 2007
These policies outline initiatives:

to provide funding for external breast prostheses; funding for more breastcare nurses; additional funding for the National Centre for Gynaecological Cancers; and
a stronger dental workforce for northern Australia.

Government Election Commitment Costing Request of 22 October 2007
The policy outlines initiatives to improve water safety in Australia.