An excellent piece from Laura Tingle over the weekend summarised the state of the Federal Budget:
In all, including $19.4 billion of ‘appropriations’ which traditionally Parliament does not block, the government has to date got Parliament to agree to cuts worth $25 billion over the next four years.
But a further $23 billion of budget measures remain in limbo, and there are a further $12.2 billion of pre-budget savings (including spending that was supposed to be funded by the mining tax) that are not going anywhere in the Senate.