Program · Outcome 1: A communications and media environment that balances the needs of the industry and the Australian community through regulation, education and advice
Program 1.1: Communications regulation, planning and licensing
This program contributes to the outcome by the allocation and use of Australia’s critical public resources, radiofrequency spectrum and telephone numbers, to maximise their value to the Australian community
Australian Communications and Media Authority, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 15 reported
$55m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$849k (−1.5%) 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 | $48m | $47m | −$846k −1.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 923 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $7.2m | $7.2m | −$3k −0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 925 |
| s74 External Revenue | departmental | $342k | $342k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 924 |
| Ordinary annual services Apropriation Bill No. 1 | administered | $50k | $50k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 922 |