Program · Outcome 1: Supporting and implementing informed decisions on policies for the good of the Australian people, including for achieving strong, sustainable economic growth, through the provision of advice to Treasury Ministers and efficient administration of Treasury's functions
Program 1.3: Support for Markets and Business
The objective of this program is to support economic competition by developing well-functioning markets that support small to medium businesses, investor and consumer confidence.
Department of the Treasury, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 54 reported
$71m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$74m (−51.0%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporations Act 2001 | administered | $106m | $31m | −$75m −71.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1290 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1 and Supply Bill No. 1) | administered | $37m | $25m | −$11m −31.2% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1289 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | administered | $3.0m | $15m | +$12m +416.9% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1291 |