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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: Australian Greens announced platform · 359 of this party's 361 promises have a price tag worked out. Another 141 have a price but do not say which part of the budget it comes out of, so only 218 can be shown in the numbers. The remaining 2 are listed further down without a price. You can move any slider from here.
Your bottom line
$14.6BIn the holedeficit
$14,640,293,000
You're $3.3B better off than the government.
$527 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
57Mixedout of 100
A weighted blend of the nine measures below, and 50 is the government's own budget. You are scored against what was actually proposed, so you begin in the middle.
A high score is meant to be hard. Every extra dollar on a service is worth less than the last, and paying for it costs you on tax burden — so spending more on everything lands roughly where you started. Moving the number means choosing what to give up.
If big changes are not shifting it, the lever is usually the weights below: the score is your priorities, and until you set them it uses the default ones.
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.
Taxes, levies and charges. Drag one up and you raise more — and someone pays it.
Individuals and other withholding taxation, including PAYG.
Taxation of company profits and superannuation funds.
Goods and Services Tax. Collected federally, distributed to states.
Dividends, interest, sales of goods and services, and residual revenue.
Fuel, tobacco, alcohol and other excise duties.
Customs duty on imported goods.
Petroleum resource rent tax, mining and petroleum royalties.
Fees for regulatory services, fines and user charges.
What the government buys with it. Drag one down and something gets less.
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 | $342,698,070,000 |
| Health | $136,918,000,000 | $157,455,700,000 |
| Payments to the States | $111,062,000,000 | $111,062,000,000 |
| Education | $57,349,000,000 | $86,023,500,000 |
| Defence | $52,055,000,000 | $42,685,100,000 |
| Government Administration | $32,499,000,000 | $40,623,750,000 |
| 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 | $15,663,210,000 |
| Jobs, Immigration & Industry Programs | $13,773,000,000 | $20,659,500,000 |
| Housing | $11,454,000,000 | $17,181,000,000 |
| Justice | $9,709,000,000 | $12,330,430,000 |
| Recreation & Culture | $6,292,000,000 | $7,613,320,000 |
| Industry & Construction | $5,563,000,000 | $7,065,010,000 |
| Agriculture & Fisheries | $4,748,000,000 | $4,937,920,000 |
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.
This education increase is larger than 98% of the ones Australian governments have actually made since 2002-03. The closest real example: In NT, education's share of spending rose from 13.5% to 16.8% between 2024-25 and 2025-26 (3.4 percentage points).
DistributionalNo Australian government has moved defence's share this hard in a single year since 2002-03.
DistributionalThis economic affairs increase is larger than 76% of the ones Australian governments have actually made since 2002-03. The closest real example: In WA, economic affairs' share of spending rose from 5.0% to 6.7% between 2021-22 and 2022-23 (1.7 percentage points).
DistributionalA 11% change to social security and welfare payments changes what the government spends by $34.0B.
FiscalA 50% change to Education funding is a $28.7B change in what the government spends.
FiscalA 7% change to personal income tax collections changes revenue by $27.8B.
FiscalAdjusting Health spending by 15% changes what the government spends by $20.5B this year.
FiscalChanging the Defence budget by 18% shifts spending by $9.4B.
FiscalEducation funding changes by about $1.0K per person under this scenario.
Service capacityThat is about $739 per person in annual health funding.
Service capacityA 7% change to income tax changes what households are left with to spend. Any effect on what they actually spend takes time to appear.
EconomicChanging education funding by 50% has, in the research literature, only a weak and lagged link to student attainment.
OutcomeA sustained 15% change in health funding may, over years, move measured health outcomes, but the size and even the direction are uncertain.
Outcome