Program · Outcome 1: Improve suicide prevention and wellbeing outcomes for serving Australian Defence Force members and Veterans by providing independent oversight and evidence-based advice to the Australian Government and Parliament, including by monitoring, inquiring and reporting on reforms to systems affecting ADF members and Veterans.
Program 1.1: Defence and Veterans' Service Commission
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+$11m (+135.8%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expenses funded by appropriation and own source revenue | departmental | $7.5m | $17m | +$9.2m +123.1% | reported | Table 3: Budgeted Expenses for Outcome 1, row 287 |
| Capital expenditure funded by appropriation | departmental | $300k | $1.5m | +$1.2m +410.3% | reported | Table 3: Budgeted Expenses for Outcome 1, row 289 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation | departmental | $57k | $251k | +$194k +340.4% | reported | Table 3: Budgeted Expenses for Outcome 1, row 288 |