Program · Outcome 2: Promote growth in economic productivity and social wellbeing through access to quality higher education, international education, and international quality research
Program 2.6: Research Capacity
Research advances our knowledge and drives our potential for innovation, economic competitiveness, and social change. The program aims to increase the production, use and awareness of research knowledge and to improve collaboration between government, industry, and the research sector in the production of research knowledge.
Department of Education, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 69 reported
$472m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$182m (−27.9%) 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 | $469m | $381m | −$88m −18.8% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 414 |
| Higher Education Support Act 2003 | administered | $186m | $91m | −$94m −50.9% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 415 |