Program · Outcome 1: Protection of people and the environment through radiation protection and nuclear safety research, policy, advice, codes, standards, services and regulation
Program 1.1: Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety
Protect the Australian people and the environment from the harmful effects of radiation through effective, risk-informed regulation and delivery of services under the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998. Scientific knowledge and international best practice is applied to promote awareness of the effects of radiation and a nationally uniform approach to radiation protection of people (the public, workers, and patients undergoing medical procedures using radiation) and the environment.
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 10 reported
$42m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$622k (−1.5%) 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 | departmental | $25m | $24m | −$916k −3.7% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 643 |
| Special accounts | departmental | $15m | $16m | +$294k +1.9% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 644 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $2.9m | $2.9m | no change 0.0% | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 645 |
| Operating deficit (surplus) | departmental | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | 2.1.1 Prog Exp, row 641 |