Program · Outcome 2: An efficient, sustainable, competitive, safe and secure transport system for all transport users through regulation, financial assistance and safety investigations
Program 2.1: Surface Transport
The Surface Transport Program supports economic growth, makes travel safer and increases transport access through delivering programs, policies and regulation for efficient, sustainable, safer and better-connected road, rail and maritime sectors
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 53 reported
$677m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$72m (+11.9%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appropriation Bill No. 1 | administered | $350m | $402m | +$52m +14.9% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 974 |
| Australian Maritime Safety Authority Act 1990 | administered | $134m | $136m | +$2.6m +2.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 975 |
| Payments to corporate entities | administered | $107m | $132m | +$25m +22.9% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 977 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | administered | $14m | $6.8m | −$7.2m −51.4% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 964 |
| Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Funds) Act 1993 | administered | $600k | $600k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 976 |