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 2.9: Australian Government Investment Funds
This program contributes to the outcome through providing advice on investment mandates and governance arrangements for the Government’s Investment Funds, to maximise the value of the funds to the government. This includes advice on credit of amounts to the Funds and debits for payments from the Funds. The Funds are: • Future Fund • Disability Care Australia Fund • Medical Research Future Fund • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund • Future Drought Fund • Disaster Ready Fund (formerly the Emergency Response Fund) • Housing Australia Future Fund
Department of Finance, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 42 reported
$1.5bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$195m (−11.8%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Research Future Fund Special Account | administered | $728m | $736m | +$7.7m +1.1% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 534 |
| Housing Australia Future Fund Special Account | administered | $531m | $537m | +$6.3m +1.2% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 538 |
| Future Drought Fund Special Account | administered | $103m | $93m | −$9.9m −9.6% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 536 |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund Special Account | administered | $68m | $71m | +$3.0m +4.3% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 535 |
| DisabilityCare Australia Fund Special Account | administered | $18m | $15m | −$2.8m −15.6% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 533 |
| Disaster Ready Fund Special Account | administered | $203m | $4.1m | −$199m −98.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 537 |