Industry, tourism and resources portfolio

Australian Geological Survey Organisation - s20 FMA Act⁽³⁾ (A)

82 167 167 82

Australia New Zealand Land Information Council - s20 FMA Act (A)

253 440 440 253

608 312 667 253

Total Special Accounts 335 560 560 335

690 479 834 335

D = Departmental A = Administered

1: The opening balance for 2004-05 is the same as the closing balance for 2003-04.

2. Receipts from appropriations and other sources are further specified in Table 2.1.1 (Total resources for outcome 1).

3: FMA Act = Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.

ADMINISTERED CAPITAL AND DEPARTMENTAL EQUITY INJECTIONS AND LOANS

Geoscience Australia has no administered capital or departmental equity injections or loans for 2004-05.

Section 2: Outcomes and outputs information

OUTCOMES AND OUTPUTS

Geoscience Australia works to achieve one outcome specified by Government. The chart below shows the relationship between the outcome and the contributing output for Geoscience Australia.

Financial details for outcome 1 appear in Table 2.1.1 (on page 127) while performance information is in Table 2.2.1 (on page 129).

Geoscience Australia Chief Executive Officer, Dr Neil Williams

Total Price of Outputs $110.872 million Departmental Outcomes Appropriation $101.055 million Total Administered Expenses $0.020 million
Output cost attribution

Geoscience Australia has a single output. All costs incurred by Geoscience Australia are attributed to this output.

Changes to outcomes and outputs

Geoscience Australia has changed it output wording for 2004-05, to better reflect the range of activities that the agency now delivers.

Trends in resourcing across outcomes

Chart 1 below shows the trend in funds appropriated to resource Geoscience Australia’s outcome since 2001-02.

Chart 1: Trends in departmental appropriations for outcome

120 100 80

$m 60 40 20 0

Note: Administered expenses of $0.020m are not shown due to their size relative to departmental appropriations.

OUTCOME 1 — DESCRIPTION

Enhanced potential for the Australian community to obtain economic, social and environmental benefits through the application of first class geoscientific research and information

Australia is gifted with a range of environmental and mineral resources which have enabled our society to develop an enviable lifestyle. But more than ever, greater pressures are being applied by the community to protect the natural environment while still maintaining our lifestyle. This requires the ongoing supply of minerals and energy. The exploitation of these resources needs to be sympathetic to our environmental heritage and diversity. One of the fundamental layers of information required to do this is spatially defined geoscientific data.

Geoscience Australia assists the Government and the community it serves to make appropriate and informed decisions about the use of resources, and also the management of the environment and the safety and well being of its citizens. This is done by undertaking geoscientific research and maintaining, developing, and allowing and encouraging access to our fundamental geoscientific data.

Geoscience Australia’s activities cover three broad areas: onshore, offshore and spatial information.

Onshore activities focus on enhancing mineral exploration, and environmental land-use planning. This will be met through the production of geoscientific maps, databases and information systems, and conducting regional geological and mineral systems research. The activities also include contributing to safer communities and critical infrastructure and the maintenance of fundamental gravity and seismic networks.

Offshore activities focus on identifying potential hydrocarbon areas and new prospective basins in Australia’s offshore territories. The activities also include mapping the outer limits of Australia’s jurisdiction under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and studies of the marine environment and estuarine health.

Spatial information activities focus on the provision of fundamental spatial data of Australia from national mapping, remote sensing and geodesy with emphasis on the requirements of emergency management, national mapping and marine zone management. The activities will also include the coordination of the implementation of the Commonwealth Policy on Spatial Data and Access and Pricing.

MEASURES AFFECTING OUTCOME 1¹ Investing in Australia’s Security — critical infrastructure protection

Expense ($m)

2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08

Geoscience Australia 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2

The Government will provide funding of $50.2 million (including $1.7 million capital funding) over four years as part of continuing efforts to ensure there are adequate levels of protective security in respect of critical infrastructure, minimal single potential points of failure and rapid, tested recovery arrangements. This funding provides resources for nine Government agencies for a range of activities to progress three key areas of critical infrastructure protection. They are:

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  national coordination and leadership — including activities such as the provision of expanded Secretariat support to the Trusted Information Sharing Network for Critical Infrastructure;
  
• 
  infrastructure vulnerability identification, analysis and remediation — including activities such as the testing of Australian Government and private sector national information infrastructure; and
  
• 
  infrastructure interdependence modelling and analysis — including activities to model and analyse interdependencies between different critical systems and networks.
  

The Government will assume a leadership role in these three core areas of activity, working in partnership with the States and industry to progress critical infrastructure protection.

This relates to measures disclosed in the 2004-05 Budget context (that is, measures agreed since the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO)).

Budget estimates — enhanced quality and timeliness
Expense ($m)
	2004-05		2005-06		2006-07	2007-08
All Agencies	16.4		15.8		15.2	15.1
Related capital ($m)
All Agencies		0.6		0.8	-	-

Note: The Geoscience Australia component of this measure is shown in Table 1.2 (Summary of measures disclosed in the 2004-05 Budget).

The Government will provide $88.5 million over four years (including $24.8 million in 2003-04) to implement the Budget Estimates and Framework Review recommendations that were endorsed by the Government in 2002. This amount includes $1.4 million in capital funding.

Provision for this purpose was made in the Contingency Reserve in the 2003-04 Budget pending consideration of funding for individual agencies.

This funding is in addition to the $3.6 million specifically provided to the Foreign Affairs and Trade and Employment and Workplace Relations portfolios in the 2003-04 Budget, and $54.4 million provided to the Department of Finance and Administration was recorded as a measure in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2002-03.

OUTCOME 1 — RESOURCING

Table 2.1.1 shows how the 2004-05 Budget appropriations translate to total resourcing for outcome 1, including administered expenses, revenue from government (appropriation), revenue from other sources, and the total price of outputs. Cell references C1, E1 and I1 show the links back to Table 1.1 (Appropriations and other revenue).

Administered appropriations to UN Grants-in-aid		Estimated actual 2003-04 $'000 20	Budget estimate 2004-05 $'000 20
	Total administered appropriations	20	(I1)	20