The big numbers:
- Deficit: $53.1 billion; 4.8% GDP
- GDP growth: -0.5%
- Unemployment: in June 2010 — 8.25%
- Inflation: 1.75%
Big spending (four years):
- Road and rail funding: $5.5b
- Clean Energy: $1.3b
- First Home Owners Boost Extended: $0.5b
- Jobs and training: $1.5b
- Pension rise: $14b
Big savings (four years):
- Superannuation contribution caps: $2.7b
- Private health insurance: $1.9b
- Pension tightening: $1.2b
- Tighter Family Tax Benefits: $2.4b
- Super co-contribution: $1.4b
- Tax system tightening: $2b
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