Interactive: How do your guesses stack up to what's in the budget?

The areas receiving the least government spending this budget may surprise you.

2016-17 Budget money dollars

Can you guess how much different areas of funding received in the 2016/17 Budget? Source: AAP

Every budget, the Australian government outlines where it expects to spend its money in the coming 12 months, within a document called the "Estimated expenses by function".

It is a snapshot of where taxpayer money, and the government’s other sources of revenue, are to be spent.

This budget, the government has earmarked a total of $454.1 billion for spending on health, education, defence, social security and other expenses in 2016-17.
Note: Spending in this visualisation includes recurring payments by function (expenses) and one-off payments by function (capital measures).


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Published 3 May 2016 8:09pm
Updated 3 May 2016 9:12pm
By Jason Thomas


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