Program · Outcome 3: Improved wellbeing for older people in Australia through targeted support, access to appropriate, high-quality care, and related informationservices
Program 3.3: Aged Care Quality
To build and retain an aged care workforce to be available to meet the needs and rights of older people.
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 13 reported
$404m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$55m (−12.1%) 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 | administered | $460m | $404m | −$55m −12.1% | reported | 2.3.1 Outcome 3, row 681 |