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Budget 2019–20: Boosting Grassroots Participation in Sport – tennis and netball
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will boost grassroots participation in sport with new initiatives aimed at increasing opportunities for women and girls in tennis and netball. -
Budget 2019–20: International Sporting Events – support for the T20 World Cup 2020
This Budget fact sheet outlines the Government support for the International Cricket Council T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia. -
Budget 2019–20: International Sporting Events – support for Paralympic sports
This Budget fact sheet outlines the Government's funding to the Australian Paralympic Committee to support Paralympic sports, including preparing for and attending the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – Medical Research Future Fund 10-year investment plan
The Government announced a $5 billion, 10-year investment plan for the MRFF as part of its 2019–20 Budget. This plan continues our support for lifesaving research, gives researchers and industry certainty and direction, and reaffirms Australia’s reputation as a world leader in medical research. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – Health and Medical Research Office
This Budget fact sheet outlines the Government's plan to establish a new Health and Medical Research Office. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – Indigenous health and medical research
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will invest $10 million in critical research focused on improving the health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – fighting diabetes
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will provide $56 million for research that will give new hope and support to the more than 120,000 Australian children and adults living with type 1 diabetes. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – additional research infrastructure
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will invest in critical infrastructure to support lifesaving health and medical research, building on its $605 million investment to support the provision of vital infrastructure through the Medical Research Future Fund 10 year plan. -
Budget 2019–20: Investing in Health and Medical Research – Channel Nine Queensland telethon
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will support lifesaving research into new treatments and cures for childhood life threatening diseases with a $2 million contribution to the annual Channel Nine Queensland telethon, which raises money for the Children’s Hospital Foundation. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – overview
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will increase funding for aged care by $7 billion over five years. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – residential care – interim increase to general subsidy
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will provide a one-off, across the board increase to the general residential aged care subsidy between March 2019 and June 2019. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – more home care packages
This Budget fact sheet outlines the Government's increase in home care packages. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – mandatory national quality indicators
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will help ensure senior Australians, in residential aged care facilities, are receiving high quality clinical care by requiring regular public reporting by providers across the nation. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – serious incident response scheme
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will introduce a serious incident response scheme for aged care providers to report assaults and serious incidents in their facilities. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – reducing the misuse of medicines in residential aged care
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will prioritise better use of medicines in aged care, including the use of psychotropic medicines. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – strengthened regulation through risk based targeting and information sharing
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will introduce a new way to target and respond to poorly performing aged care providers. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – home care compliance – risk based monitoring and assessment
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will strengthen protections to make sure aged care services are being delivered safely to senior Australians in their homes. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – enhanced home care dementia cognition and support
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will increase the supplement paid to people receiving home care who are living with moderate to severe dementia. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – further enhancing safety in aged care
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will improve compliance in aged care by further enhancing the quality, safety and integrity of home care packages – including audits and reviews of quality and safety with providers. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – supporting implementation of the Aged Care Workforce Strategy
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government is continuing its commitment to improving the quality of aged care services by working with the industry to build an aged care workforce that will meet Australia’s future needs. -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – trial of alternative residential aged care funding tool
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will trial a new residential aged care funding tool to replace the longstanding Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI). -
Budget 2019–20: More Choices for a Longer Life – support providers through business advisory services
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will provide accounting and business advisory help to aged care providers at risk of, or under, financial stress – often smaller providers servicing rural and remote areas. -
Budget 2019–20: Preventive Health – establishment of a centralised Donor Human Milk Service
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will provide a one-off grant to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service to ensure that all premature babies born in Australia can access human milk. -
Budget 2019–20: Preventive Health – supporting Australians living with epilepsy
This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will provide $20 million towards the Epilepsy Smart Australia Program Pilot that will be delivered by Epilepsy Australia member organisations. -
Health Portfolio Budget Statements 2019–20
The Health Portfolio Budget Statements for the 2019 to 2020 financial year outline how the Government has allocated resources to outcomes for all entities within our portfolio.