Program · Outcome 7: Contribute to healthy, active communities and a sustainable sport system through policy development, coordination and targeted support
Program 7.1: Sport and Physical Activity
Develop national sport policy, design and implement programs and support major sporting events to provide social, health and economic benefits for Australia
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 85 reported
$656m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$22m (−3.2%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payment to corporate entities | administered | $532m | $571m | +$39m +7.3% | reported | Table 2.7.1, row 1020 |
| Appropriation Bill No. 1 | administered | $146m | $85m | −$61m −41.7% | reported | Table 2.7.1, row 1018 |
| Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 | administered | $0 | $5k | +$5k new | reported | Table 2.7.1, row 1019 |
| Sports and Recreation | administered | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | Table 2.7.1, row 973 |