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Everything recalculates in your browser as you drag — nothing is sent anywhere until you choose to save. Consequences are modelled estimates, each shown with its assumption and source.
Loaded: The Coalition announced platform · 224 of this party's 230 promises have a price tag worked out. Another 216 have a price but do not say which part of the budget it comes out of, so only 8 can be shown in the numbers. The remaining 6 are listed further down without a price. You can move any slider from here.
Your bottom line
$14.6BIn the holedeficit
$14,609,343,000
You're $3.3B better off than the government.
$525 for every person in Australia, this year alone.
What this does to the debt
The federal government already owes $616.6B — roughly $22,179 for every person in Australia.
Your budget piles on another $14.6B, so next year it owes $631.2B.
This is net debt — what's owed after subtracting the money the government holds. You'll hear a bigger number in the news, over a trillion dollars: that's the total borrowed before any of the savings are counted. Both are real. They measure different things.
The number above covers the day-to-day running of the country — what comes in against what gets spent on wages, services and payments. It is what these sliders move. It does not include the cost of building things: roads, hospitals, submarines.
The building figure stays as published, because nothing on this page changes it. Source: Parliamentary Budget Office National Fiscal Outlook (CC BY 4.0).
Your overall score
52Mixedout of 100
A weighted blend of the nine measures below. Tune the weights to reflect what you value and the score recalculates immediately.
Step 1
Drag a slider to spend more or less on something. You can change each line by up to half, either way. Interest is locked because it follows the debt rather than any decision.
Age Pension, JobSeeker, family payments and other social security.
Public hospitals, Medicare, PBS and population health programs.
Money the Commonwealth hands to the states and territories to spend themselves — overwhelmingly the GST. The states decide what it is spent on, not the Commonwealth.
Schools, vocational education, higher education and early childhood.
Defence operations, capability acquisition and veterans support.
General public services, revenue collection and central agencies.
Industry support, culture, recreation and residual expenditure.
Roads, rail, public transport operations and subsidies.
The fuel tax credits scheme, renewable energy programs, and support for the resources sector.
Help finding work, vocational training, industrial relations, immigration and border processing, and tourism.
Social and affordable housing, homelessness services and rent assistance.
Courts, corrective services, legal aid and public prosecutions.
The ABC and SBS, the arts, museums and galleries, sport, and national parks.
Mining, manufacturing and construction, including the research and development tax incentive.
Support for farming, forestry and fishing, drought assistance and biosecurity.
Step 2 — optional
The score treats every measure as equally important. If some matter more to you than others, change them below and the score updates. Skip this and we use an even split.
Nine measures, each with the weight applied to it and a plain-English account of how it was derived.
Higher means the measure counts for more in the overall score. Values are rescaled to add up to 100%.
Step 3
See how badly you FOCUpYour scenario against the government budget. Pick a view.
| Category | Government budget | Your scenario |
|---|---|---|
| Welfare | $308,737,000,000 | $308,737,000,000 |
| Health | $136,918,000,000 | $136,918,000,000 |
| Payments to the States | $111,062,000,000 | $111,062,000,000 |
| Education | $57,349,000,000 | $57,349,000,000 |
| Defence | $52,055,000,000 | $52,055,000,000 |
| Government Administration | $32,499,000,000 | $32,499,000,000 |
| Interest Payments | $29,599,883,000 | $29,599,883,000 |
| Other | $22,978,000,000 | $22,978,000,000 |
| Transport | $15,338,000,000 | $15,338,000,000 |
| Fuel & Energy | $15,207,000,000 | $11,861,460,000 |
| Jobs, Immigration & Industry Programs | $13,773,000,000 | $13,773,000,000 |
| Housing | $11,454,000,000 | $11,454,000,000 |
| Justice | $9,709,000,000 | $9,709,000,000 |
| Recreation & Culture | $6,292,000,000 | $6,292,000,000 |
| Industry & Construction | $5,563,000,000 | $5,563,000,000 |
| Agriculture & Fisheries | $4,748,000,000 | $4,748,000,000 |
These are modelled estimates, not predictions. Each one is calculated by a data rule — a set formula applied to the figures you changed — using the assumption stated with it. Expand a consequence to see that assumption and its source.
No consequences fired yet. Move a slider to see the modelled effects.