Program · Outcome 1: Better equip Australia to meet current and future health needs of all Australians through the delivery of evidence-based health policies; improved access to comprehensive and coordinated health care; ensuring sustainable funding for health services, research and technologies; and protecting the health and safety of the Australian community
Program 1.8: Health Protection, Emergency Response and Regulation
Protect the health of the Australian community through national leadership and capacity building to detect, prevent and respond to threats to public health and safety, including those arising from communicable diseases, natural disasters, acts of terrorism and other incidents that may lead to mass casualties. Protect human health and the environment through regulatory oversight of therapeutic goods, controlled drugs, vaping goods, genetically modified organisms, and industrial chemicals.
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 80 reported
−$642m (−55.8%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services | administered | $985m | $492m | −$492m −50.0% | reported | 2.1.1 Outcome 1, row 704 |
| Non cash expenses | administered | $167m | $17m | −$150m −90.1% | reported | 2.1.1 Outcome 1, row 705 |