Program · Outcome 3: Advance Australia’s environmental, scientific, strategic and economic interests in the Antarctic region by protecting, researching and administering the region, including through international engagement
Program 3.1: Contribute to Australia's national Antarctic interests through science, environmental management and international engagement, including delivering Australia's scientific research and operations in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
Our Australian Antarctic Division delivers Australia’s commitment to conserving the Antarctic environment. We also deliver Australia’s scientific research and operations in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 79 reported
$367m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$20m (−5.2%) 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 | $260m | $234m | −$25m −9.7% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 247 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $117m | $120m | +$2.5m +2.2% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 249 |
| Antarctic Science Collaboration Initiative | administered | $5.0m | $5.0m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 244 |
| s74 External Revenue | departmental | $4.9m | $4.8m | −$150k −3.0% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 248 |
| Advancing Australia's National Interests in Antarctica | administered | $0 | $2.5m | +$2.5m new | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 245 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | administered | $12k | $12k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 246 |