Program · Outcome 2: Promote growth in economic productivity and social wellbeing through access to quality higher education, international education, and international quality research
Program 2.4: Higher Education Loan Program
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$2.8bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$12.9bn (−82.1%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher Education Support Act 2003 | administered | $15.8bn | $2.8bn | −$12.9bn −82.2% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 411 |
| Higher Education Tuition Protection Fund | administered | $2.8m | $2.9m | +$76k +2.7% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 412 |