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Program · Outcome 1: Promote engaged audiences and support a creative, innovative and commercially sustainable screen industry through the funding and promotion of diverse Australian screen product

Program 1.1: Screen Australia

Program objective, as stated by the agency
The key results will be for creative individuals and businesses, through financial and other assistance, to make high-quality film, television, interactive entertainment, and other screen programs and for these programs to attract Australian and international audiences

Screen Australia, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 533 reported

$9.8m 2026-27 Budget estimate

+$376k (+4.0%) on 2025-26 estimated actual

A further $86m is listed for this program but not counted, because it is counted elsewhere or is not an expense. Each line below says why.

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 from related entities corporate $73m $73m no change 0.0% not counted: funding already counted at the paying department Table 2.1.1, row 1066
Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) corporate $13m $13m +$211k +1.6% not counted: funding already counted at the paying department Table 2.1.1, row 1065
Revenues from other independent sources corporate $8.9m $8.9m no change 0.0% reported Table 2.1.1, row 1068
Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year corporate $580k $956k +$376k +64.8% reported Table 2.1.1, row 1067