The 2010 federal Budget at a glance …
- Deficit: $40.8 billion or 2.9% of GDP reducing to $13 billion by 2011-12
- GDP growth forecast: 3.25% (2010-11) and 4% (2011-12)
- Unemployment forecast: 5% by June 2011, 4.75% by June 2012
- CPI forecast: 2.5% by June 2011
- Return to surplus: 2012-13
BIG SPENDING
- Health: $2.2 billion in new spending over four years
- Border protection: $1.2 billion in new spending
- Skills: $661 million
- Renewable energy: $652 million over four years
- Tax cuts: $300 million to slash the company tax rate, but not until 2012-13
BIG SAVINGS
- PBS reform: $30.7 million
- Green cars: $50 million in 2011-12 out to $200 million to finish them off
- Superannuation tax changes: $65.8 million next year
- RSPT: $12 billion by 2013-14, nothing next year
- Tobacco excise: $4.98 billion by 2013-14
- Total: $30.109 billion by 2013-14
So the second highest expenditure goes to implement the most expensive immigration processing system they can find- looking people up 2400kms from the nearest capital city. Then billions are required to feed, guard and process these people.
It could be soooo much cheaper- not to mention kinder to do what we did when the Vietnamese boat people steeped ashore without passports and visas. They stayed in hostels in capital cities where they had English classes and found jobs and moved out to rent houses until they eventually bought their own while they educated their kids who are now along with their parents valued and respected Australian citizens,
Bot no way where is the political fun, farce and capital in that when you can have fun kicking refugees and asylum seekers back and forth.
Wait for that august organ the HUN tomorrow- whats the bet another hatemongering headline about budget blowouts on “illegals”
URRRGH- pet hate those bloody testing kits looking for explosives at airports. God knows we need them with the high rate of bombs going off every other day so we get ” Another $17.8 million in additional funding over four years will go towards increasing the number of Australian Federal Police firearms and explosive detector dogs at major international airports.” Has anyone seen one of these expensive explosive detector dogs – they sound fascinating.