Program · Outcome 3: Advance a prosperous and secure Australia through trade and travel facilitation and modernisation, and effective customs, immigration, maritime and enforcement activities across the border continuum
Program 3.2: Border Management
To protect Australia's sovereignty, security and safety by developing strategy, legislation and policy that supports legitimate border movements, ensures compliance with border controls, strengthens visa and citizenship system integrity, and protects the Australian community from health risks.
Department of Home Affairs, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 67 reported
$600m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$44m (+7.9%) 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 | $495m | $552m | +$57m +11.5% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 841 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $32m | $29m | −$3.1m −9.7% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 843 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $25m | $18m | −$7.8m −30.6% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 840 |
| s74 external revenue | departmental | $4.3m | $2.2m | −$2.2m −49.6% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 842 |