Program · Outcome 1: Independent assurance for the Prime Minister, ministers, Parliament as to whether Australia’s intelligence and security agencies act legally and with propriety by inspecting, inquiring into and reporting on their activities
Program 1.1: Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
The objectives of the program are to meet the responsibilities and exercise the functions outlined in the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986 and in other relevant legislation, and to conduct activities to facilitate the role of providing independent assurance as to whether Australia's intelligence agencies are acting legally and with propriety.
Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 7 reported
$20m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$3.8m (+23.5%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $16m | $20m | +$3.8m +24.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 197 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $380k | $367k | −$13k −3.4% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 198 |