Program · Outcome 2: Support an efficient and high-performing public sector through providing leadership to Commonwealth entities in ongoing improvements to public sector governance, including through systems, frameworks, policy advice, service delivery, and managing, acquiring and divesting government investments
Program 2.1: Public Sector Governance
This program contributes to the outcome through developing and maintaining the public sector resource management framework and improving the standard of governance, performance and accountability of Commonwealth entities.
Department of Finance, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 30 reported
$115m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$4.6m (−3.9%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial Framework | departmental | $42m | $35m | −$7.3m −17.3% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 499 |
| Regulatory Reform | departmental | $21m | $29m | +$8.4m +40.4% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 502 |
| Government Shareholder Oversight | departmental | $29m | $28m | −$1.2m −4.3% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 500 |
| Digital and Data | departmental | $17m | $13m | −$3.7m −21.7% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 503 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $6.1m | $5.5m | −$591k −9.7% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 504 |
| Special Financial Claims | departmental | $3.5m | $3.3m | −$248k −7.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 501 |
| Grant in Aid - Chifley Research Centre | administered | $294k | $305k | +$11k +3.7% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 492 |
| Grant in Aid - Menzies Research Centre | administered | $294k | $304k | +$10k +3.4% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 494 |
| DHA Borrowings Special Account | administered | $239k | $239k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 498 |
| Grant in Aid - Page Research Centre | administered | $142k | $148k | +$6k +4.2% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 495 |
| Grant in Aid - Green Institute | administered | $105k | $109k | +$4k +3.8% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 493 |
| Grant in Aid - Australian Institute of Policy and Science | administered | $46k | $49k | +$3k +6.5% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 491 |
| Grant in Aid - RSPCA Australia Inc | administered | $46k | $49k | +$3k +6.5% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 497 |
| Grant in Aid - Royal Humane Society of Australasia | administered | $34k | $35k | +$1k +2.9% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 496 |