Program · Outcome 2: Conserve, protect and sustainably manage our natural resources; protect and conserve our natural and cultural heritage; reduce and regulate the use of pollutants and hazardous substances; and take a leadership role on these issues internationally
Program 2.2: Protect Australia's cultural, historic and First Nations heritage
Aims to protect and sustainably manage Australia’s natural, First Nations and historic heritage places for future generations.
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 73 reported
$7.7m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$1.9m (−19.6%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1 and Supply Bill No. 1) | administered | $9.6m | $7.7m | −$1.9m −19.6% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 238 |