Our budget priorities

For every dollar the Government has taken out of foreign aid this budget, it's putting $3 into the pockets of mining companies through the Fuel Tax Credits subsidy alone. That's no way to balance the budget.

Let's share this infographic to put the foreign aid cuts into perspective:

---Facts and figures--
Over forward estimates period for this budget - the next four years - the mining industry alone will receive $9.4 billion in the Fuel Tax Scheme subsidy. It's a heavy discount on fuel for mining companies that allows them to fill up for cheap. That's $4,480 every minute for the next 4 years.

Millions of lives have been saved globally over the last decade at an average cost of $2,000 per life saved, "Effective Aid: Helping Millions," World Vision, 2011. Assuming we spent 20% of our foreign aid budget on health, at $2,000 a life, these budget cuts could have saved approx. 291,900 lives.