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 2.22 Housing Assistance
Notes a. Negative amounts denote revenue. b. Licence fees are charged to home loan providers under the DHOAS. The home loan providers are required to remit a portion of home loan revenue to the Australian Government. Page 96 | Defence
Department of Defence, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 108 reported
$318m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$44m (+16.1%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
AusTender and GrantConnect record the agency, not the program, so contracts and grants are shown on the entity page.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Act 2008 Part VI, s.84 | administered | $302m | $348m | +$46m +15.4% | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 338 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation | administered | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 339 |
| Administered revenues from other sources | administered | −$28m | −$30m | −$2.3m – | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 340 |