Program · Outcome 1: A just and secure society through the maintenance and improvement of Australia’s law and justice, security and integrity frameworks
Program 1.4: Justice Services
This program contributes to the outcome by ensuring an effective and efficient justice system, and improving outcomes for vulnerable people facing disadvantage by ensuring their access to legal representation and associated services.
Attorney-General's Department, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 19 reported
$143m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$15m (−9.6%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Human Rights Commission | administered | $28m | $28m | −$37k −0.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 143 |
| Legal support services for survivors engaging with the Commonwealth redress scheme for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse | administered | $15m | $25m | +$10m +69.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 125 |
| Family Court of Western Australia | administered | $19m | $19m | +$425k +2.2% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 119 |
| Community Legal Services Program | administered | $19m | $18m | −$1.1m −5.6% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 117 |
| Support for Specialist Family Violence Legal Services | administered | $25m | $14m | −$11m −43.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 132 |
| Expensive Commonwealth Criminal Cases Fund | administered | $11m | $7.7m | −$3.5m −31.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 118 |
| Financial Assistance towards legal costs and related expenses | administered | $12m | $5.2m | −$6.4m −55.2% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 120 |
| Payments to Law courts Limited for contributions to operating and capital expenses | administered | $5.5m | $4.7m | −$801k −14.5% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 130 |
| Grants for services responding to child sexual abuse | administered | $4.0m | $4.1m | +$96k +2.4% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 121 |
| Grant for support service for non-offending family members of child sexual abuse perpetrators | administered | $0 | $3.1m | +$3.1m new | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 135 |
| Protecting the rights of older Australians | administered | $9.0m | $2.8m | −$6.2m −68.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 131 |
| Financial assistance towards legal costs and related expenses for witnesses to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion | administered | $2.3m | $2.3m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 133 |
| Legal advice service supporting the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion | administered | $633k | $1.8m | +$1.1m +181.7% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 134 |
| Indigenous Justice | administered | $1.5m | $1.6m | +$33k +2.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 122 |
| Payments for grants to Australian organisations | administered | $1.1m | $1.1m | −$13k −1.2% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 127 |
| Payments for Services Under Family law Act 1975 and the Child Support Scheme Legislation | administered | $1.9m | $1.1m | −$857k −44.9% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 129 |
| Services for Other Entities and Trust Moneys - Attorney-General's Department Special Account | administered | $1.0m | $1.0m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 142 |
| Legal Assistance Statistics | administered | $621k | $630k | +$9k +1.4% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 124 |
| Native Title System | administered | $371k | $378k | +$7k +1.9% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 126 |
| Payments for membership to international bodies | administered | $422k | $365k | −$57k −13.5% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 128 |
| World Intellectual Property Organisation Contributions | administered | $344k | $335k | −$9k −2.6% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 136 |
| Law Officers Act 1964 | administered | $310k | $310k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 138 |
| Justice Sector Education | administered | $614k | $175k | −$439k −71.5% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 123 |
| Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 s77 | administered | $20k | $20k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 141 |
| High Court Justices (Long Leave Payments) Act 1979 | administered | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 137 |
| National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022 | administered | $400k | $0 | −$400k −100.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 139 |
| Native Title Act 1993 | administered | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 140 |