Sentence examples for commonwealth spending from inspiring English sources

* Commonwealth spending on roads – both states are discussing specific projects – but not public transport, which the Abbott government insists is the responsibility of the states.

Some questions he deflected to treasurer Scott Morrison, who largely stuck to the former Abbott government's script – for example, trotting out the increases in commonwealth spending on health and education instead of answering a question about the $80bn cut from forward projections in the Abbott government's first budget.

Late last year, as rural anger rose, the parliament legislated that a maximum of 1,500 gigalitres could be achieved through water "buybacks", with the rest coming from water saved by commonwealth spending on more efficient water use by farmers or more efficient use for the environment.

Interest on the accumulating debt now consumes 4% of government income, or as much as the commonwealth spends on public hospitals.

Commonwealth defence spending – for which Victoria and South Australia are competing.

Birmingham says the commonwealth is spending $73.6bn over four years (which equates to $3.9bn less than Labor promised).

The commonwealth will spend $13.5m over three years training frontline workers like police officers and social workers to help them spot domestic violence and support survivors of it.

It basically asks the commonwealth to spend enough to get the states through the hospitals crisis for the next four years while still delivering personal income tax cuts, at which point everyone can reassess whether the tax cuts have delivered the boost to economic growth and overall increases in revenue that the commonwealth is claiming they will.

The Productivity Commission's final report, which the Coalition has said will strongly influence its soon-to-be-released childcare and families package, recommends a tougher means test that redirects more of the $7.7bn now spent in commonwealth subsidies to lower and middle income families, but leaves all families receiving some assistance.

Ralph Northam has spent his entire life serving his country and the commonwealth of Virginia, while Ed Gillespie spent over 30 years of his career fighting for wealthy special interests ― including corporations that laid off thousands of Virginians," Christina Freundlich, the Northam campaign's deputy communications director, said in a statement.

One of Joyce's first decisions will be whether he accepts a recommendation in a recent review to ditch the requirement that any money earned by the commonwealth from water trading be spent on more buybacks, and whether he accepts demands for the commonwealth to be able to sell "excess" water to irrigators, increasing supply and reducing temporary water prices.