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 2.8: Public Sector Superannuation
This program contributes to the outcome through advising the government on the stability of the government’s unfunded superannuation liabilities and its associated administered expense items and superannuation arrangements for government employees. This includes the administration and management of superannuation arrangements for parliamentarians, as well as current and former governors-general, federal judges, and Federal Circuit Court Judges.
Department of Finance, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 41 reported
$10.4bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$534m (+5.4%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superannuation Act 1990 | administered | $6.9bn | $7.3bn | +$401m +5.9% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 530 |
| Superannuation Act 1976 | administered | $2.8bn | $2.9bn | +$129m +4.6% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 529 |
| Judges' Pensions Act 1968 | administered | $115m | $120m | +$4.5m +3.9% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 524 |
| Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948 | administered | $39m | $39m | −$4k −0.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 525 |
| Superannuation Act 1922 | administered | $11m | $11m | −$170k −1.5% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 528 |
| Parliamentary Superannuation Act 2004 | administered | $9.6m | $9.9m | +$354k +3.7% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 526 |
| Public Sector Superannuation | departmental | $9.9m | $9.0m | −$857k −8.7% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 531 |
| Superannuation administration costs | administered | $8.1m | $8.1m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 520 |
| Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999 | administered | $1.3m | $1.6m | +$255k +19.5% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 521 |
| Act of Grace | administered | $1.2m | $1.2m | −$20k −1.6% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 518 |
| Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Act 2011 | administered | $1.0m | $1.0m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 522 |
| Governor-General Act 1974 | administered | $965k | $977k | +$12k +1.2% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 523 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $666k | $603k | −$63k −9.5% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 532 |
| Compensation and legal expenses | administered | $500k | $500k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 519 |
| Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws General Law Reform) Act 2008 | administered | $61k | $61k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 527 |