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 2.12 Defence People
To deliver a program that enables the required people capability to operate and support Defence equipment and systems, and to manage the business of Defence.
Department of Defence, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 87 reported
$2.1bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$101m (+5.1%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expenditure funded by appropriations | departmental | $2.0bn | $2.1bn | +$100m +5.1% | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 321 |
| Revenues from other sources | departmental | $21m | $21m | +$388k +1.9% | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 320 |