Program · Outcome 1: Promote competition and support effective implementation and advancement of National Competition Policy including through independent research, advice and public education, and promote the efficient operation of, use of, and investment in, infrastructure through recommendations and decisions under the National Access Regime in Part IIIA of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010
Program 1.1: National Competition Council
The NCC’s objectives are to support the implementation, monitoring and assessment of nationally agreed competition reforms, and to make decisions on infrastructure access issues that accord with statutory requirements (including time limits) and good regulatory practice. The NCC should ensure that advice meets requirements of decision-making Ministers, such that Australia achieves a consistent approach to national competition policy and access regulation that promotes effective competition.
National Competition Council, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 344 reported
+$1.6m (+91.4%) 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 | $1.7m | $3.3m | +$1.6m +93.2% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1311 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $34k | $34k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1312 |