Federal Budget 2018: Everything you need to know

FROM tax cuts to health funding, education, infrastructure, crime and more. Here’s everything we know coming up in tonight’s federal budget.

TAX

■ Targeted at workers on less than $87,000 a year

■ A 40 per cent beer tax abolished for craft breweries

■ ATO to raise $3.6 billion from illicit tobacco crackdown

■ Budget surplus in 2021

■ $259.6 million for NT to offset loss of GST revenue

■ 0.5 per cent Medicare levy hike for NDIS to be dropped

HEALTH

■ $40 million for whooping cough immunisation

■ Multi-billion dollar increase in health spending

■ Funding for people getting aged care in their own homes

■ $241 million for spinal muscular atrophy drug Spinraza

■ $84 million for mental health nurses in rural areas

■ $33.8 million for Lifeline’s 24-hour telephone service

■ $118.9 million for WA hospitals

■ $56 million for projects to help people with disabilities

INFRASTRUCTURE

■ $1 billion for the M1 between Brisbane and the Gold Coast

■ $400m for Port Botany rail duplication

■ $390 million to upgrade the Sunshine Coast rail network

■ $500 million upgrade for WA’s Ellenbrook rail line

■ $155 million for a new bridge at Nowra

■ $970 million for Coffs Harbour bypass

ENVIRONMENT

■ $500 million for Great Barrier Reef

SCIENCE & INDUSTRY

■ Multimillion-dollar savings on R&D tax incentive

■ $50 million to go towards setting up a space agency

TOURISM & ARTS

■ $25 million for a new visitors centre at Kurnell

■ $140 million location incentive to lure big-budget films

■ $70 million for the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

HUMAN SERVICES

■ Additional $300 million for disability employment services

■ Extension of indigenous rangers program

EDUCATION

■ $271 million for regional and remote childhood education

■ School chaplains four year extension to focus on bullying

CRIME

■ $68.6 million to establish a centre to counter child exploitation