Program · Outcome 2: Safeguard Australia’s animal and plant health status to maintain overseas markets and protect the economy and environment from the impact of exotic pests and diseases, through risk assessment, inspection and certification, and the implementation of emergency response arrangements for Australian agricultural, food and fibre industries
Program 2.1: Biosecurity and Export Services
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−$10m (−50.4%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indigenous Rangers Biosecurity Program | administered | $1.1m | $3.3m | +$2.2m +188.8% | reported | Table 2.3, row 66 |
| Enhancing Australia’s Biosecurity System – Priority Pest and Disease Planning and Response | administered | $3.1m | $2.8m | −$220k −7.2% | reported | Table 2.3, row 65 |
| Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis and Research | administered | $2.1m | $2.1m | +$57k +2.7% | reported | Table 2.3, row 64 |
| Priorities for Australia's Biosecurity System – Environmental Protection Officer | administered | $1.3m | $825k | −$473k −36.4% | reported | Table 2.3, row 69 |
| Agriculture 2030 – Biosecurity – To ensure Australia continues to have a robust biosecurity preparedness and response capability in the event of a pest and disease outbreak: Surveillance Plant | administered | $399k | $399k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.3, row 60 |
| Live Cattle Trade Disruptions | administered | $0 | $366k | +$366k new | reported | Table 2.3, row 67 |
| National Livestock Traceability Reform to Enhance Agricultural Biosecurity and Export | administered | $4k | $20k | +$16k +400.0% | reported | Table 2.3, row 63 |
| Australian Trade System Support – Cultivating Australia's Traceability – Promoting and Protecting Australian Premium Agriculture | administered | $6.7m | $0 | −$6.7m −100.0% | reported | Table 2.3, row 61 |
| Protecting Australia from Escalating Exotic Animal Disease Risks | administered | $1.8m | $0 | −$1.8m −100.0% | reported | Table 2.3, row 62 |
| Modernising Agricultural Trade – Protecting Australia's Clean, Green Brand | administered | $2.0m | $0 | −$2.0m −100.0% | reported | Table 2.3, row 68 |
| Reducing Regulatory Burden and Streamlining Audit Arrangements in the Dairy Sector | administered | $1.5m | $0 | −$1.5m −100.0% | reported | Table 2.3, row 70 |