Program · Outcome 1: Improved infrastructure across Australia through investment in and coordination of transport and other infrastructure
Program 1.1: Infrastructure Investment
The Infrastructure Investment Program (the Program) supports economic growth, makes travel safer, increases transport access and supports regional development. It increases the efficiency, productivity, sustainability and safety of Australia’s land transport infrastructure through programs and policy to improve connectivity for communities and freight. The Program is delivered in partnership with states, territories, and stakeholders to support nationally significant projects that improve productivity, resilience, liveability and sustainability
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 19 reported
$1.5bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$692m (+86.9%) 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. 2 | administered | $821m | $955m | +$134m +16.3% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1024 |
| Payments to corporate entities | administered | $30m | $396m | +$365m +1204.4% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1025 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | administered | −$65m | $101m | +$166m – | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1026 |
| Appropriation Bill No. 1 | administered | $9.2m | $36m | +$27m +295.1% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1023 |