Program · Outcome 4: Good governance and service delivery in the Australian territories including through the maintenance and improvement of the laws and services for non-self-governing territories, and the overarching legislative framework for self-governing territories
Program 4.1: Services to territories
The Services to Territories Program provides good governance and service delivery in the Australian territories, including through the maintenance and improvement of the laws and services for non-self-governing territories, and the overarching legislative framework for self-governing territories
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 70 reported
$258m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$76m (−22.8%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appropriation Bill No. 1 | administered | $257m | $199m | −$58m −22.6% | reported | Table 2.4.1, row 992 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | administered | $56m | $38m | −$18m −32.4% | reported | Table 2.4.1, row 996 |
| Indian Ocean, Jervis Bay and Norfolk Island Territories Special Account 2023 | administered | $20m | $20m | +$3k +0.0% | reported | Table 2.4.1, row 994 |
| Christmas Island Phosphate Mining Rehabilitation Special Account 2016 | administered | $1.2m | $1.2m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.4.1, row 993 |
| Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 | administered | $0 | $20k | +$20k new | reported | Table 2.4.1, row 995 |