Spending increases have been unveiled in the mid-year economic and financial outlook, including $200m towards beefing up security at parliament house, $300m to Operation Okra and $140m to fund a rise in Australia’s humanitarian intake

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The mid-year economic and financial outlook (Myefo) is not all savings measures and slashed budgets. Spending is increasing in a number of areas.

Guardian Australia looks at some of the Myefo winners.

The government is providing an extra $650m over four years for counter-terrorism funding. Of that money, $139m will go to Asio, $107m to the Australian Secret Intelligence Services and $72.3m to the Australian federal police (AFP)

$406m will go to the national partnership agreement between states and the commonwealth on universal access to early childhood education over four years

Operation Okra, the military operation to stop the advancement of Isis in Iraq and Syria, will receive nearly $300m over three years

$300m will go towards the addition of new drugs to the pharmaceutical benefits scheme over the forward estimates period

The continuation of the national school chaplaincy program will cost the government $242m over four years

Beefing up security at parliament house in Canberra will cost $200m over forward estimates. An additional $88m will go towards boosting security in commonwealth parliamentary offices and enhancing the AFP’s close personal protection capacity

The government will spend $140m over two years to increase Australia’s humanitarian intake by 7,500 places. The Department of Immigration will spend $8m on its anti-people-smuggling ad campaign in just six months

A structural adjustment fund, to help providers of higher education prepare for reforms in the sector, will cost the government $100m over three years

The government will provide $95m over four years to implement the work-for-the-dole scheme in remote areas

The establishment of a children’s e-safety commissioner and related statutory office will cost more than $37m over four years

The establishment of a joint investigative task force into trade union corruption will cost the government $7m over two years

The headline on this story was amended on 16 December. Funding for the school chaplaincy program is being continued, but not increased.