Program · Outcome 1: Informed Government decisions on fiscal equalisation between the states and territories through advice and recommendations on the distribution of GST revenue
Program 1.1: Commonwealth Grants Commission
The Commission provides independent advice to the Government on the distribution of the GST among the states and territories.
Commonwealth Grants Commission, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 286 reported
$8.7m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$815k (−8.6%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
AusTender and GrantConnect record the agency, not the program, so contracts and grants are shown on the entity page.
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 | $8.7m | $7.9m | −$826k −9.5% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1283 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $742k | $753k | +$11k +1.5% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1284 |