Breakdown of spending on Maintaining an Effective Foreign Service measures

Summary of proposal

The request sought information on how the funding from the following Budget measures has been used since announcement, and how it is planned to be used across the forward estimates:

  • Maintaining Support for an Effective Foreign Service, Budget 2024-25
  • Maintaining Support for an Effective Foreign Service, Budget 2023-24.

The request also sought as much detail as possible about individual projects under each sub-heading listed in the budget papers, funding, and ASL across each year.

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Free Local Healthcare Clinics

Summary of proposal

The policy would include two components:

Component 1

1,000 Free Local Healthcare Clinics would be opened across Australia over 4 years (250 clinics per year). Clinics would be built on new sites and offer free primary care, with 6 clinics built per Federal electorate and the remaining distributed in consultation with States and Territories.

The first 250 clinics would come online from 1 July 2026. If clinics cannot be setup by that point,  space would be rented temporarily to accommodate the clinics until construction is finished.

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Free Local Healthcare Clinics

Summary of proposal

The policy would include two components:

Component 1

1,000 Free Local Healthcare Clinics would be opened across Australia over 4 years (250 clinics per year). Clinics would be built on new sites and offer free primary care, with 6 clinics built per Federal electorate and the remaining distributed in consultation with States and Territories.

The first 250 clinics would come online from 1 July 2026. If clinics cannot be setup by that point,  space would be rented temporarily to accommodate the clinics until construction is finished.

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Triple the bulk billing rate

Summary of proposal

This ongoing proposal has 2 components and would commence from 1 July 2025.

Component 1

Eligibility for BBI to be expanded to all Medicare card holders, rebate rate set to triple rate as per the Budget 2023-24 Strengthening Medicare measure and include the same restrictions as the Strengthening Medicare measure.

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Triple the bulk billing rate

Summary of proposal

This ongoing proposal has 2 components and would commence from 1 July 2025.

Component 1

Eligibility for BBI to be expanded to all Medicare card holders, rebate rate set to triple rate as per the Budget 2023-24 Strengthening Medicare measure and include the same restrictions as the Strengthening Medicare measure.

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Triple the bulk billing rate

Summary of proposal

This ongoing proposal has 2 components and would commence from 1 July 2025.

Component 1

Eligibility for BBI to be expanded to all Medicare card holders, rebate rate set to triple rate as per the Budget 2023-24 Strengthening Medicare measure and include the same restrictions as the Strengthening Medicare measure.

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Trainee Doctors to have equal pay

Summary of proposal

The proposal would provide funding of $100 million per year ongoing ($1 billion over 10 years) for a program to provide grants that address pay parity for trainee GPs. The program would be modelled on the Victorian grant program ‘General practitioners grant program’.

The proposal would not be indexed, with departmental funding included within the capped amount.

The proposal would start from 1 July 2026.

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Trainee Doctors to have equal pay

Summary of proposal

The proposal would provide funding of $100 million per year ongoing ($1 billion over 10 years) for a program to provide grants that address pay parity for trainee GPs. The program would be modelled on the Victorian grant program ‘General practitioners grant program’.

The proposal would not be indexed, with departmental funding included within the capped amount.

The proposal would start from 1 July 2026.

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Trainee Doctors to have equal pay

Summary of proposal

The proposal would provide funding of $100 million per year ongoing ($1 billion over 10 years) for a program to provide grants that address pay parity for trainee GPs. The program would be modelled on the Victorian grant program ‘General practitioners grant program’.

The proposal would not be indexed, with departmental funding included within the capped amount.

The proposal would start from 1 July 2026.

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Distribution of property tax concession benefits

Summary of proposal

This request sought budget analysis on the revenue forgone in relation to the cost of negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount applied to residential properties. 

This analysis was to include the annual tax revenue forgone from negative gearing deductions and the CGT discount for each income decile over the medium term. The requestor asked that tables be presented in percentage form, representing the proportion of revenue forgone associated with each taxable income decile.

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