Program · Outcome 3: Strengthening the sustainability, capacity and diversity of Australia's urban and regional areas including northern Australia, including through facilitating local partnerships between all levels of government and local communities; through investment in infrastructure and measures that stimulate economic growth; and providing grants and financial assistance
Program 3.1: Regional development
The Regional Development Program supports local communities through regionally-focused stakeholder consultation and engagement, research, policy development and program delivery activities to create jobs, drive regional economic growth and build stronger regional communities
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 62 reported
+$44m (+7.4%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $471m | $373m | −$98m −20.8% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 985 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | administered | $123m | $265m | +$142m +115.2% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 968 |