Budget 2018 provides a $181.62 million funding increase over the next four years made up of the following:
The additional funding from this budget ramps up over the next four years and will reach $60 million annually from 2021/22. This means DOC's total departmental budget is expected to increase by 16% by 2021/22. Vote Conservation also increases by 13% by 2021/22.
Initiative | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 4-yr |
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Enhancing biodiversity by controlling and eradicating predators | 4.40 | 30.40 | 23.40 | 23.08 | 81.28 |
Managing the impacts of increasing numbers | 1.00 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 5.50 |
Enhancing biodiversity protection in the | 0.80 | 0.82 | 0.82 | 0.16 | 2.60 |
Strengthening DOC's organisational capacity | 3.28 | 4.32 | 4.32 | 4.32 | 16.24 |
Contingency for biodiversity initiatives | 7.60 | 15.20 | 22.04 | 31.16 | 76.00 |
Total | 17.08 | 52.24 | 52.08 | 60.22 | 181.62 |
The graph below shows how the departmental budget that includes the new funding from 2018/19 (solid green line) compares with the pre-existing departmental budget (dotted green line).
Budget 2018 includes contingency funding which is assumed to be in departmental operating budgets.
Budgets for the years 2013/14 to 2017/18 are from the Budget Estimates of Appropriations as tabled in Parliament for those years.
DOC's budget is complex. There can be fluctuations as a result of government policy initiatives approved in the annual Budget round (eg Budget 2018), as well as external revenue increases (eg hut and camping charges, concessions fees and partnerships revenue). There are also many technical adjustments to budgets such as transferring budgets between years.
The following chart overlays new funding in Budget 2018 with funding received in previous Budgets.
Budget 2018 initiatives comprise biodiversity contingency, Mackenzie Basin, organisational capability, visitor management, and predator control.
$m totals in legend are over 4 years.
Vote Conservation has two main components:
The graph shows the growth of Vote Conservation and DOC's departmental budget from the new funding in Budget 2018.
Budget 2018 includes contingency funding which is assumed to be in departmental operating budgets.
Budgets for the years 2013/14 to 2017/18 are from the Budget Estimates of Appropriations as tabled in Parliament for those years.
DOC's budget is complex. There can be fluctuations as a result of government policy initiatives approved in the annual Budget round (eg Budget 2018), as well as external revenue increases (eg hut and camping charges, concessions fees and partnerships revenue). There are also many technical adjustments to budgets such as transferring budgets between years.