Program · Outcome 1: Enabling a safe, prosperous, secure and healthy Australia through the provision of weather, water, climate, ocean and space weather services
Program 1.1: Bureau of Meteorology
The Bureau’s purpose is to provide trusted, reliable, and responsive services for Australia – all day, every day. To achieve its purpose – across the domains of weather, water, climate, oceans and space weather – the Bureau: monitors and reports on current conditions; provides forecasts, warnings and long-term outlooks; analyses and explains trends; fosters greater public understanding and use of the information it provides; continues to extend its understanding of, and ability to forecast, Australian conditions.
Bureau of Meteorology, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 185 reported
$614m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$12m (−2.0%) 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 | $323m | $307m | −$17m −5.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 211 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $154m | $159m | +$4.3m +2.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 213 |
| Section 74 external revenue | departmental | $149m | $149m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 212 |