Program · Outcome 1: The protection of the community and financial system from criminal abuse through a data driven and risk-based approach to financial intelligence and regulation and collaboration with domestic and international partners
Program 1.1: AUSTRAC
To protect the Australian community from money laundering, terrorism financing and other serious crime, by collaborating with partners to strengthen Australia’s financial sector through AUSTRAC’s regulatory and intelligence programs.
Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 193 reported
$251m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$27m (+11.9%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $199m | $223m | +$24m +12.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 789 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $18m | $24m | +$5.5m +30.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 791 |
| s74 external revenue | departmental | $6.6m | $3.7m | −$2.9m −43.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1 NCE, row 790 |