Program · Outcome 5: Promote an innovative and competitive communications sector, through policy development, advice and program delivery, so all Australians can realise the full potential of digital technologies and communications services
Program 5.1: Digital Technologies and Communications Services
To provide an environment in which all Australians can access and benefit from digital technologies and communications services, supporting inclusiveness and sustainable economic growth
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 76 reported
$2.6bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$129m (+5.3%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payments to corporate entities | administered | $1.6bn | $1.7bn | +$66m +4.1% | reported | Table 2.5.1, row 1002 |
| Appropriation Bill No. 1 | administered | $309m | $410m | +$101m +32.8% | reported | Table 2.5.1, row 998 |
| Universal Service Obligation | administered | $270m | $270m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.5.1, row 1000 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | administered | $226m | $183m | −$43m −18.9% | reported | Table 2.5.1, row 1003 |
| National Relay Service | administered | $20m | $25m | +$5.0m +25.0% | reported | Table 2.5.1, row 999 |
| Other Public Interest Services | administered | $22m | $22m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.5.1, row 1001 |