Australian Federal Budget 2026-27: Portfolio Expense Line Items

Australian federal government budget data for the 2026-27 fiscal year, tabled in Parliament on 12 May 2026. The dataset contains machine-readable line items from Portfolio Budget Statements, including planned expenses by portfolio, entity, outcome, and program. It was published by the Department of Finance and includes data for the 2025-26 to 2029-30 financial years.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending trends based on expense type and appropriation type columns.
• Compare budgeted expenses across different portfolios and departments.
• Track program-level funding allocations over a five-year forward estimate period.
• Visualize the distribution of government resources by outcome and program.

Strengths

• Includes five years of forward estimates (2025-26 to 2029-30).
• Provides machine-readable CSV versions of key financial tables from Portfolio Budget Statements.
• Published under a CC-BY-4.0 license by the authoritative Department of Finance.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The line-item CSV excludes sub-totals and totals present in the original Excel files, requiring programmatic calculation.

Provenance

Source

Department of Finance, Australian Government.

Collection Method

Extracted and published as machine-readable tables from official Budget Papers and Portfolio Budget Statements.

Time Range

2025-26 to 2029-30 financial years.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 01:38:09.921757; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia (federal government).