Program · Outcome 1: Improved early learning, schooling, student educational outcomes and transitions to and from school through access to quality early childhood education and care, support, parent engagement, quality teaching and learning environments
Program 1.3: Government Schools National Support
The program provides supplementary financial assistance to state and territory governments to facilitate the delivery of a quality education within government schools.
Department of Education, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 42 reported
$13.0bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$530m (+4.3%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Education Act 2013 | administered | $12.4bn | $13.0bn | +$533m +4.3% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 399 |
| Other services (Appropriation Bill No. 2) | administered | $4.7m | $1.6m | −$3.1m −65.5% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 398 |