Program · Outcome 1: Encourage growth, investment and resilience in Australian farm businesses and rural and regional communities by delivering the Commonwealth’s farm business concessional loans
Program 1.1: Regional Investment Corporation
Objectives Provide practical support and investment to help rural and regional communities achieve economic growth, agricultural productivity, and resilience through the delivery of farm business loans and farm-related small business loans. RIC’s farm business loans and farm related small business loans provide low-cost finance to businesses that are in financial need of assistance, to recover from short- term hardship, but are assessed as financially viable over the long-term and able to repay the loan.
Regional Investment Corporation, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 241 reported
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2026-27 Budget estimate
A further $26m is listed for this program but not counted, because it is counted elsewhere or is not an expense. Each line below says why.
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
AusTender and GrantConnect record the agency, not the program, so contracts and grants are shown on the entity page.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | corporate | $23m | $26m | +$3.0m +13.0% | not counted: funding already counted at the paying department | RIC Table 2.1, row 94 |