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 3.4: Border Enforcement
To protect Australia's sovereignty, security and safety through the streamlining of legitimate trade and travel, prevention of illegal movement of people and goods, and prevent, detect and deter illegal activity in the maritime domain as the Australian Government’s operational lead for civil maritime security.
Department of Home Affairs, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 69 reported
$1.6bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$63m (−3.9%) 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 | $1.5bn | $1.3bn | −$212m −13.9% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 850 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $2.9m | $169m | +$166m +5688.8% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 848 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $76m | $71m | −$4.6m −6.1% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 852 |
| s74 external revenue | departmental | $27m | $15m | −$12m −43.6% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 851 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | administered | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 849 |