Program · Outcome 1: Maximise aviation safety through a regulatory regime, detailed technical material on safety standards, comprehensive aviation industry oversight, risk analysis, industry consultation, education and training
Program 1.1: Civil Aviation Safety Authority
The following three objectives represent the regulatory services produced by the program in delivering its outcome. 1. Maintain and enhance a fair, effective, efficient and responsive aviation safety regulation system CASA will focus its efforts on maintaining, enhancing and promoting aviation safety, as set out in the Civil Aviation Act 1988 and in accordance with all government directions. CASA’s work will centre on monitoring compliance, continuing the Regulatory Implementation Program, continuing to review the Australian administered airspace and continuing effective enforcement to secure compliance with safety standards, with a focus on responsiveness to material changes in the operating environment. 2. Collaborative and proactive engagement with the aviation industry and wider
Civil Aviation Safety Authority, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 12 reported
+$7.4m (+4.5%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
A further $62m is listed for this program but not counted, because it is counted elsewhere or is not an expense. Each line below says why.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aviation Fuel Revenues (Special Appropriation) Act 1988 | corporate | $127m | $132m | +$4.5m +3.5% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 955 |
| Appropriation Bill No. 1 | corporate | $53m | $62m | +$8.9m +16.8% | not counted: funding already counted at the paying department | Table 2.1.1, row 954 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | corporate | $18m | $20m | +$2.8m +15.6% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 958 |
| Regulatory fees | corporate | $12m | $12m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 959 |
| Revenues from other independent sources | corporate | $5.3m | $5.5m | +$170k +3.2% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 961 |
| RPAS under s46A (4) of the Civil Aviation Act 1988 | corporate | $1.0m | $1.0m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 956 |
| Other income | corporate | $1.0m | $1.0m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 960 |
| VH Registration Levy | corporate | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 957 |