Program · Outcome 1: More sustainable, productive, internationally competitive and profitable Australian agricultural, food and fibre industries through policies and initiatives that promote better resource management practices, innovation, self-reliance and improved access to international markets
Program 1.12: Rural Programs
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$141m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$18m (+14.4%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farm Household Support Act 2014, s. 105 – payments for Farm Household Allowance | administered | $96m | $114m | +$17m +18.0% | reported | Table 2.1, row 54 |
| Rural Financial Counselling Service | administered | $21m | $21m | +$372k +1.8% | reported | Table 2.1, row 53 |
| Write down and impairment of assets | administered | $5.7m | $5.7m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1, row 55 |