Program · Outcome 1: A just and secure society through the maintenance and improvement of Australia’s law and justice, security and integrity frameworks
Program 1.1 Attorney-General’s Department
Supporting the Australian Governments engagement in legal issues, promoting and protecting the rule of law, managing casework, administering and advising on legal and policy frameworks in relation to rights, justice, security and integrity, improving the safety of the Australian community, and access to justice for vulnerable people though programs and services.
Attorney-General's Department, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 16 reported
$317m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$15m (−4.4%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $277m | $263m | −$14m −5.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 110 |
| s74 External Revenue | departmental | $30m | $30m | −$423k −1.4% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 111 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $24m | $24m | +$44k +0.2% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 112 |