Build your own budget

Be the Australian Government and create your own budget. Decide how to spend your billions of tax-payer dollars.

 

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How government gets and spends money

1 Collect Money

Drag bags into Australia's piggy bank to collect money.

Charges

Public company profit

Other income

Goods
and services tax

$0 billion

Income and business tax

2 Spend Money

Adjust the graph to decide how money is spent.

Welfare
$0b
Education
$0b
Health
$0b
Defence
$0b
States/Terr.
$0b
Other
$0b

 

The money bag sizes reflect the relative sizes of the different types of incomes to the Australian Government.

The initial proportions of expenditure roughly reflects what the Australian Government spends money on.