2022/23 State Budget Briefing
The Rising Cost of Living Hitting Home The cost of living in Tasmania has been increasing by more than growth in wages, meaning households have been enduring real cuts in income over the last year.
Wages vs. Inflation 7.0 6.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0
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Price Increases Relative to Wages Affording the basics is getting harder as household budgets are stretched by price increases outstripping wages... 19.5
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Clothing amd Footwear
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Housing
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Mar-2022
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CPI (5.8)
Transport
Communication Recreation and Culture
Wages (2.8)
Education
Insurance and Finance
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Affording the Basics is Getting Harder … but also the cost of household essentials is outstripping CPI and wages. 50.0 45.6 45.0 40.0 35.0 30.0 25.0 18.7
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Insurance and Finance
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Education
Sport Participation
Wages (2.8)
Pets
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Petrol
CPI (5.8)
Transport
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Gas
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Maintenance and Repairs
House Prices
Rents
Housing
Beverages
Vegetables
Beef
Meat and Seafood
Food and Beverages
2022/23 State Budget Briefing | 26 May 2022
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Gender Budget Impact Statement What is gender budgeting? • Analysis of all policy measures with a ‘gender lens’ to reflect on how they may impact different communities on the basis of gender. • To be applied to all policies, not just those intended to support women. • Should include informed analysis of how proposed expenditure and initiatives will impact upon our progress towards gender equality. What were we looking for? • Gender equality explicitly named as an overarching objective. • Establishment of gender equality targets and indicators. • An analysis of whether the assigned budgetary allocations address current inequalities. What is the Tasmanian Government’s response? • Acknowledges the reality of gendered disadvantage in Tasmania. • Lacks clear targets to measure progress. • More detailed analysis needed of existing and proposed initiatives.
2022/23 State Budget Briefing | 26 May 2022
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2022/23 State Budget Key Announcements & Focus Areas
Housing 2022/23 Budget Announcements: • $1.5bn social and affordable housing package o $538m over the Forward Estimates; o Establish a new Housing Authority; o $36m per year into specialist homelessness services o $6.85m to provide Safe Spaces ($3.06m for Hobart, $1.9m for Launceston, $1.9m for Burnie); o $3.2m over two years for Youth to Independence homes; o $16m for supported accommodation for older Tasmanians in N/NW; o $4m expansion to Magnolia Place to support homeless women and children; o $2.2m for the Launceston Youth at Risk Centre o $4.5m towards the Thyne House expansion; o $2.5m to support the operations of the Devonport Men’s Shelter; and o $9.5m Burnie Youth2Independence facility. • Assistance to home buyers and owners including First Home Owners Grant, Tasmanian HomeBuilder Grant, Housing Market Re-entry program, stamp duty concessions and land tax relief. • $9.25m extension of Private Rental Incentive Scheme and $2.5m increase for Ancillary Dwelling Grant Program. 2022/23 State Budget Briefing | 26 May 2022
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Health 2022/23 Budget Announcements: • $11.2bn over forward estimates. • $150m to upgrade digital health infrastructure, under the $475m (10-year) Digital Health Strategy. • $50m to meet hospital bed demand. • $196m to deliver extra 30,000 elective surgeries. • $30m Community Rapid Response Service. • $21.5m for rural hospitals. • $48.6m Ambulance Tasmania including $6.6m for 11 additional paramedics. • $7.2m for Outpatient Transformation Program. • $1.5m and $300,000 for Oral Health Services Tasmania and Royal Flying Doctor Service to provide additional dental appointments.
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Mental Health 2022/23 Budget Announcements: • $9m to continue Emergency Mental Health Co-response model (PACER) and expansion into the north-west. • $2.6m for Safety and Quality Team to improve clinical outcomes. • $6.5m for delivery of Mental Health Reform Program. • $45m Child and Adolescent Mental Health reforms. • $1.5m for continued implementation of Rethink 2020 (state mental health plan).
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Digital Inclusion, Energy and Transport 2022/23 Budget Announcements: • $5m for digital devices to support students to learn at home. • $12.3m hydrogen bus and $6 million battery bus trials. • $10m to replace fossil fuel boilers in government facilities with renewable energy-powered alternatives. • $70m contribution to Bell Bay green hydrogen hub. • $700m increase in funding (to $2.7 billion) for roads and bridges — Bridgewater Bridge, South East Traffic Solution, Midlands/Tasman/Bass/East and West Tamar Highways and Greater Hobart Traffic Solution. • $305m into electricity, water and sewerage and council rates concessions.
2022/23 State Budget Briefing | 26 May 2022
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Community Services Industry (including justice, equality, family and sexual violence, children and young people and industry development)
2022/23 Budget Announcements: • $100,000 community services relief package to address higher transport cost • Introduction of a Gender Budget Impact Statement. • $12.5m for the first year of the Third Family and Sexual Violence (FSV) Action Plan, in addition to the $78m in direct and indirect funding to address FSV every year. • Funding to expand additional frontline services, including Magnolia Place and Jireh House. • $15.1m over two-years to pilot Multidisciplinary Centres in the south and north (HUB-style services where support services are co-located with police and health providers). • $500,000 to support Truth-telling and Treaty process. • $36.4m to implement recommendations from Independent Inquiry into the Tasmanian Department of Education’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, including $26.1m for Safeguarding Officers in schools to protect students from sexual abuse. • $4.3m to implement recommendations from Bugg review into Public Trustee, and $4.3m to deliver a new Community Service Obligation. 2022/23 State Budget Briefing | 26 May 2022
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