Program · Outcome 2: Protect and advance Australia’s strategic interests through the provision of strategic policy, the development, delivery and sustainment of military, intelligence and enabling capabilities, and the promotion of regional and global security and stability as directed by Government.
Program 2.1 Strategy, Policy and Industry
To deliver high-quality policy advice to Government, the Secretary and Chief of the Defence Force, to protect and advance Australia’s strategic interests.
Department of Defence, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 66 reported
$757m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$52m (−6.4%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expenditure funded by appropriations | departmental | $809m | $757m | −$52m −6.5% | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 299 |
| Revenues from other sources | departmental | $123k | $597k | +$474k +384.9% | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 298 |