Program · Outcome 3: Acknowledgement and commemoration of those who served Australia and its allies inwars, conflicts and peace operations through promoting recognition of service and sacrifice,preservation of Australia’s wartime heritage, and official commemorations
Program 3.1: War Graves
This program acknowledges and commemorates veterans’ service and sacrifice and promotes an increased understanding of Australia’s wartime history. To meet the Australian Government’s commitment, the Office of Australian War Graves cares for and maintains official commemorations and sites of collective official commemoration to the standards set by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 67 reported
$33m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$857k (−2.6%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $28m | $30m | +$1.5m +5.5% | reported | x_Table 2.3.1 Resources an, row 371 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | administered | $5.2m | $2.8m | −$2.4m −45.8% | reported | x_Table 2.3.1 Resources an, row 375 |
| Special Accounts | administered | $45k | $45k | no change 0.0% | reported | x_Table 2.3.1 Resources an, row 372 |