This proposal would cut Government spending as follows:

• General public services
  • Abolish spending under the ‘general research’ category (excluding the impact of cutting medical, higher education and vocational education and training (VET) research that are to be included in a separate costing).
• Housing and community amenities
  • Abolish spending other than for hazardous materials regulation.
• Recreation and culture
  • Abolish spending other than for the continued occupation, research and exploitation of Antarctica.
• Fuel and energy
  • Abolish spending other than for the fuel tax credit scheme.
• Agriculture, forestry and fishing
  • Abolish all spending including funding that matches agricultural levy revenue (except the levies and the departmental costs associated with the management of levies).
• Mining, manufacturing and construction
  • Abolish all spending other than for the research and development tax incentive.
• Transport and communication
  • Abolish all spending except for the management of radiofrequency spectrum under the ‘communications’ category, and the regulation of air and sea transport under the ‘air transport’ and ‘sea transport’ categories.
• Other economic affairs
  • Abolish all spending except for ‘immigration’ and ‘industrial relations’ (which are included in a separate costing) and ‘other economic affairs not elsewhere classified’ which includes the Bureau of Meteorology.
• Other purposes
  • Abolish all ‘general purpose’ payments (including grants from the pool of Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenues) and natural disaster relief.
• Across categories
  • Abolish all ‘payments for specific purposes’ to state and local governments not already mentioned in this and other costing requests.

The proposal would have effect from 1 July 2017.