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The 2011 Federal Budget

Tough or timid?
ƒ Budget setting
ƒ Main numbers
ƒ Major measures
ƒ Winners & losers
ƒ Issue: China
ƒ Issue: Jobs
ƒ Issue: Interest rates
ƒ Forecasts

Craig James
Chief Economist, CommSec, May 2011
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p information

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Budget 2011
Budget
g setting
g
Conservative consumers…
…saving
saving not spending
Main numbers

LLastt Year
Y This Y
Thi Year Nextt Year
N Y Andd
A
2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13
Underlying
y g budget
g (($ billion)) -$54.8 -$49.4 -$22.6 $3.5
Economic Growth (% change) 2.3 2.25 4.00 3.75
Inflation (% change) 3.1 3.25 2.75 3.00
Wages (% change) 30
3.0 4 00
4.00 4 00
4.00 4 25
4.25
Unemployment (%, June quarter) 5.2 5.00 4.75 4.50
Stimulus & slower growth…
…from
from surplus to deficit
Major
j measures

ƒ Jobs,
J b J Jobs,
b Jobs
J b
ƒ Skilled migration
ƒ Infrastructure spending
ƒ Savings
Sa gs totatotalling
g $22
$
billion over five years
ƒ Small business measures
ƒ Assistance for those
doing it tough
Winners & losers
Winners?
ƒ Job seekers
ƒ Businesses that offer training and placement
services
ƒ Apprentices
ƒ Small Business
ƒ Regional Australia
Losers
ƒ Salary sacrifice vehicle change
ƒ Dependent Spouse Tax Offset change
Global perspective
p p
Issue: Ascent of China
So What?
China leads the wayy Exchange rates, trade,
sharemarket,
h k iinterest rates
Drivers of world economy -
Contribution to growth 2011
China 0.81%
United States 0.74%
India 0.18%
Japan 0.14%
Newly Industrialised Asia* 0.13%
Germany 0.13%
ASEAN 5 # 0.12%
Brazil 0.11%
R
Russia
i 0 10%
0.10%
United Kingdom 0.08%
France 0.07%
Canada 0 05%
0.05%
Other countries 1.70%
World 4.40%
Source: IMF & CommSec
* Newly industrialised Asia – Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore
and South Korea
# ASEAN 5 – Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and
Vietnam
Issue: Tight job market
So What?
Job market Reasons to spend;
pressures for
f business
b i

Job creation 2010

Total 368,600 3.3%


65+ 18 200
18,200 5 9%
5.9%
25-34 139,200 5.7%
55-64 75,400 5.0%
45-54 56,400 2.3%
35-44 53,200 2.1%
15-24 26,100 1.3%
Source: ABS & CommSec
Issue: Interest rates
Aussie dollar
More q
questions than answers

ƒ Carbon
C b ttax – no details…yet
d t il t
ƒ Mining tax – not finalised…yet
ƒ Consumer conservatism – will it last?
ƒ Reserve
ese e Bank
a – view
e oon tthe
e Budget?
udget
ƒ Politics – will the measures be passed
ƒ China
Chi – boom
b or bust?
b t?
ƒ Resource projects – can all the work be done?
Summing
g up
p

ƒ Right
Ri ht b
budget
d t for
f the
th times
ti
ƒ Discipline required to achieve
surplus
l
ƒ Economy will lift later in 2011
ƒ Rate hikes remain on agenda
ƒ Focus on opportunities, not
risks
CommSec forecasts

Forecasts
Economic growth 2.40% in 2010/11 4.10% in 2011/12

Inflation 3 10% in 2010/11


3.10% 3 10% in 2011/12
3.10%

Unemployment 4.75-5.00%,
4.75 5.00%, mid 2011 4.50-5.00%,
4.50 5.00%, end 2011

Cash rate 4.75%, mid 2011 5.00-5.25%, end 2011

Sharemarket 4 900 points


4,900 points, mid 2011 5 200 points
5,200 points, end 2011
(Australian)
Australian dollar US108c in June 2011 US104c in December 2011
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