Budget 2020-21: information of relevance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, delivered his second Australian Government Budget on Tuesday evening, 6 October 2020 with the aim that the Economic Recovery Plan for Australia will create jobs, rebuild the economy, and secure Australia’s future.

The following links provide information on the Budget and its implications for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

Australian Government Budget details:

• View website: Australian Government Budget 2020-21
• View Budget 2020-21: Guaranteeing the Essential Services.

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

More detailed information on various components of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander expenditure is available from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

• View Portfolio Budget Statements 2020-21
• View Australian Budget 2020-21 Paper 1, Budget strategy and outlook, Statement 6: Expenses and net capital investment: Health
• View Australian Government Budget 2020-21 Paper 2, Budget measures, Part 1: Receipt measures: Prime Minister and Cabinet Section
• View Australian Government Budget 2020-21 Paper 2, Budget Measures, Part 2: Payment measures: Health, Prime Minister and Cabinet and Social Services sections
• View Australian Government Budget 2020-21 Paper 3, Federal financial relations, Part 2: Payments for specific purposes: Health.

Australian Government Department of Health

• View Budget 2020-21 Health Portfolio budget statements
• View Department of Health: Outcome 2: Health access and support services:
  • Program 2.2: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
  • Program 2.3: Health workforce
• View Department of Health: Outcome 4: Individual health benefits: Program 4.3: Pharmaceutical benefits
• View Department of Health: Outcome 5: Regulation, safety and protection
  • Program 5.1: Protect the health and safety of the community through regulation
  • Program 5.2: Health protection and emergency response
  • Program 5.3: Immunisation
• View Department of Health: Outcome 6: Ageing and aged care
  • Program 6.2: Aged care services
• View Department of Health: Budget 2020-21: Budget at a glance
• View Department of Health: Budget 2020-21: Response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• View Department of Health: Budget 2020-21: Strengthening Primary Care – COVID-19 pandemic response – primary care
• View Department of Health: Budget 2020-21: Strengthening Primary Care – stronger Indigenous health
• View Department of Health: Budget 2020-21: Improving access to medicines – immunisation – new and amended listing.

Australian Government Department of Social Services

• View Budget 2020-21: Portfolio Budget Statements – Social Services
• View Department of Social Services: Budget 2020-21: Supporting social and community services sector workers
• View Department of Social Services: Budget 2020-21: Improving programs that support Australian families

For information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health:

The Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status 2019 provides information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations; the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health; various measures of population health status; selected health conditions; and health risk factors.

Further information:

• 2020-21 Budget: Supporting the future of Indigenous Australians
  View media release: Minister for Indigenous Australians – Hon. Ken Wyatt AM MP
• Budget 2020-21: Record health and aged care investment under Australia’s COVID-19 pandemic plan
  View media release: Minister for Health – Hon. Greg Hunt MP
• Aboriginal Health funding boosted, but infrastructure overlooked
  View media release: NACCHO
• Budget 2020-21: National Indigenous Australians Agency
  View media release: National Indigenous Australians Agency
• Closing the Gap targets get $46m in budget
  View news: The Young Witness
• Budget 2020-21 – Wrapping responses from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups
  View news: Croakey
• Budget 2020: what’s the long and short of it at first glance?
  View news: NITV
• What the 2020 budget means for First Australians
  View news: Indigenous.gov.au.
• Federal Budget 2020
  Hear audio: On Speaking Out with Larissa Behrendt. ABC radio

Contact Details:

Vilma FitzGerald
Senior Research Officer
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Email: v.fitzGerald@ecu.edu.au