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 1.2: Consumer safeguards, education and information
This program contributes to the outcome by ensuring efficient, effective and contemporary safeguards protect users of media and communication services so that the Australian community can confidently use those services
Australian Communications and Media Authority, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 137 reported
$68m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$7.7m (+12.8%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $53m | $61m | +$7.7m +14.5% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 927 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $6.6m | $6.6m | −$3k −0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 929 |
| s74 External Revenue | departmental | $316k | $316k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 928 |
| Telecommunications Act 1997 | administered | $300k | $300k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 926 |