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 5.2 Program Support for Outcome 5
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$93m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$11m (−10.8%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $92m | $81m | −$11m −11.6% | reported | Table 2.5.1, row 1004 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $4.7m | $4.1m | −$559k −12.0% | reported | Table 2.5.1, row 1007 |
| Public Interest Telecommunications Services Special Account | departmental | $4.0m | $4.0m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.5.1, row 1006 |
| s74 external revenues | departmental | $3.9m | $3.9m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.5.1, row 1005 |