KEY CHANGES ANNOUNCED IN MID-YEAR BUDGET UPDATE
CUTS
* $224.7 million over four years from 2016/17 axing Tony Abbott's Green Army.
* Abandoning Asset Recycling Fund, projected to reduce gross debt by $10 billion.
* Not proceeding with privatisation of the ASIC Registry, saving $4.5 million.
* Ditching the $154 million same-sex marriage plebiscite.
* $170.4 million over two years from 2016/17 by reducing the number of places in the nannies pilot from 3000 to 500.
SPENDING
* $35.8 million over four years from 2016/17 to increase staff for federal politicians.
* $8.1 million over four years from 2016/17 to provide a third staffed electorate office for electorates larger than 350,000 square kilometres.
* $3 million in 2016/17 to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau to finalise MH370 search operations.
* $100 million over four years from 2016/17 for Landcare, as part of Greens' deal on the backpacker tax.
* $22.1 million in 2018/19 to secure the filming of Aquaman on the Gold Coast in 2017.
* $12 million over two years from 2017/18 for new wifi and mobile coverage on NSW Central Coast trains.
* $20.1 million over four years from 2016/17 to increase capabilities of Fair Work Ombudsman in helping vulnerable migrant workers.
* $39.0 million over four years from 2016/17 to support the investigation of matters arising from the trade union royal commission.
* $5.1 million over two years from 2016/17 to continue the operation of the interim embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine.
* $18.4 million in 2016/17 to establish a taskforce to plan for Australia hosting the ASEAN leaders' summit in 2018.
* $1.6 million over two years from 2016/17 for a black economy taskforce.
* $25.6 million over six years from 2016/17 to relocate the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority from Canberra to Armidale, New South Wales.
