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Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin Vol 5 No 2 April 2005 - June 2005: ISSN 1445-7253 A peer-reviewed electronic journal from the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet Current topics Return to current topics home This section of the Bulletin contains information about major public events, new programs and relevant staff appointments. If you would like to contribute to this section, contact us. Links to Commonwealth Budget 2005-06: information of relevance to Indigenous health Federal Treasurer Peter Costello delivered his tenth Commonwealth Budget on Tuesday evening, 10 May 2005. The following links provide information on the Budget and its implications for Indigenous health. Indigenous Budget 2005 The Australian Government Indigenous Budget 2005 provides information on Indigenous spending across all Government portfolios. View Indigenous Budget 2005 contents webpage View document (PDF - 1.93MB - large file warning!) Section F of the Indigenous Budget 2005 provides a statistical summary of Australian Government Indigenous expenditure: by portfolio. It includes expenditure in the Health and Ageing Portfolio, the largest component of which is for health services in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (including the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Access Programme). View section F (PDF - 533KB) Portfolio Budget Statements 2005-06 More detailed information on various components of Indigenous expenditure is available in the respective Portfolio Budget Statements 2005-06, including the: Health and Ageing Portfolio Portfolio Budget Statement 2005-06 View document (PDF - 1.47MB - large file warning!) Outcome 7 - Indigenous health is downloadable seperately. View document (PDF - 49KB) View document (RTF - 376KB) Health and Ageing Budget at a glance provides a statistical summary of expenditure View information (HTML) Health Fact Sheet 5 - Helping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to better health View fact sheet (HTML) Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs Portfolio Portfolio Budget Statement 2005-06 View document (PDF - 1.12MB - large file warning!) Full Budget details Full Commonwealth Budget details are available at the official Australian Government Budget website. View website Media releases and other information Budget 2005-06 - a continuing commitment to improving the health of Indigenous Australians The Hon Tony Abbott, Minister for Health and Ageing View media release (HTML) (released 10 May 2005) View media release (PDF - 42KB) (released 10 May 2005) Other Health and Ageing Budget media releases and fact sheets View Health media releases and fact sheets View Ageing media releases and fact sheets ABC News online Budget delivers post-ATSIC funding View article (13 May 2005) Indigenous health spending disappointing: Oxfam View article (11 May 2005) Australian Democrats Indigenous budget tinkers around the edges View media release (released 10 May 2005) Australian Labor Party Indigenous budget — the same old con View media release (released 11 May 2005) Department of Education, Science and Training Indigenous education: • Building on our commitment to Indigenous learning • $23 million for training Indigenous youth from remote areas • $12 million to preserve Indigenous cultural heritage • $12.9 million scholarship scheme to support future Indigenous leaders • $8.7 million for tutorial support for remote Indigenous students View media releases (released 10 May 2005)