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 3.2: Commemorative Activities
Commemorative activities are delivered to enable the community to better understand, acknowledge and commemorate the service and sacrifice of the men and women who have served Australia in wars, conflicts and peace operations.
Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 69 reported
$43m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$2.1m (+5.2%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $19m | $22m | +$3.1m +15.8% | reported | x_Table 2.3.1 Resources an, row 374 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $22m | $21m | −$942k −4.4% | reported | x_Table 2.3.1 Resources an, row 373 |